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Cuyahoga County reappraisal wrongly shifts tax burden to the disadvantaged: Davon Norris After analyzing Cuyahoga County data on property reappraisals (data available here), the real brunt of the proposed reappraisal falls on the lowest-valued homes and, as a result, on the most disadvantaged homeowners and areas.

Editorial in the Cleveland Plain Dealer

How some states help residents avoid costly debt during hard timesA new national study provides the best evidence to date that generous unemployment insurance benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic helped reduce reliance on high-cost credit use.Researchers found that lower-income residents of states with more generous benefits were significantly less likely than those living in less-generous states to take out ...

Coverage by Ohio State News 8/16/2024

Bond Villains - Boston ReviewHow a little-understood feature of urban finance—municipal bonds—fuels racial inequality.

Research reference in post in the Boston Review

The High Cost of Bad CreditDesperate to improve their ratings, Americans now spend billions on “credit repair” — but the industry often can’t deliver on its promises.

Coverage in the New York Times Magazine (6/7/2023)

Ford hosts first speaker event on real-world poverty solutionsFord School hosted the first event in s Real World Perspectives on Poverty Solutions series on exploring real-world poverty solutions.

Quoted in The Michigan Daily (10/10/2022)

Black NBA players have shorter careers than white playersBlack players in the NBA have 30% greater odds of leaving the league in any given season than white players who have equivalent performance on the court, a new study finds.The results were driven mostly by bench players, who are the majority of those in the league, but who average less than 20 minutes of action per game.These findings suggest th...

Coverage by Ohio State News (3/02/2021)

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