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Poverty is not a Culture: The weight of scarcity on American social mobility

September 8, 2014September 8, 2014 economic mobility, india, inequality, poverty, social policy, United States

BY BRIAN CHIGLINSKY, PANGYRUS This article is being published in collaboration with Pangyrus.   Sendhil Mullainathan had studied poverty for

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Crime Square: How Advances in Criminal Justice Policy Can Improve Public Safety in New York City

July 23, 2014July 23, 2014 crime, criminal justice, new york city, social policy

BY ISAAC LARA During the 1970s and 1980s, Times Square was not the tourist mecca that it is today. The

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Successful Innovations in Juvenile Justice are Lifting Up Instead of Locking Down

July 8, 2014July 8, 2014 crime, criminal justice, harvard kennedy school, Juvenile Justice, policy, school-to-prison pipeline, social policy, tough on crime

BY HAYLING PRICE Last fall, I had the opportunity to invite a hero to Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership (CPL).

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The Rise of a Narrative: Thomas Piketty at the Kennedy School

April 25, 2014April 25, 2014 American politics, budget, business, economics, finance, HKS Faculty, inequality, middle class, policy, reform, small business, social policy

  BY JOSH RUDOLPH The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are

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Should Cities Use Hackathons to Solve Social Problems? Lessons from America’s Datafest at Harvard

February 11, 2014February 11, 2014 activism, business, Elections, local government, social policy, technology, United States

BY ALISON FLINT I first learned about hackathons when I saw an ad for an event called Datafest hosted at

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He Said, We Said: Breaking Down the State of the Union

January 31, 2014January 31, 2014 American politics, democracy, education, social policy, state of the union, United States

Note: This post assesses President Obama’s State of the Union Address in 4 policy ares: K-12 Education, Higher Education, LGBTQ

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2014 State of the Union: Issue by Issue, Part 2

January 28, 2014January 28, 2014 American politics, blog, democracy, economics, health, military, social policy, state of the union

A Note of Explanation: For the first time, the Kennedy School Review has tapped into the policy expertise of students

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