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Large majorities of both Democrats and Republicans believe nurses and health care aides are underpaid, according to a new study from the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
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The UChicago Inclusive Economy Lab (formerly Poverty Lab), housed at the Harris School of Public Policy, has released the results of a comprehensive new study, done in conjunction with Chicago Public Schools.
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As Congress works on a bipartisan infrastructure bill and budget reconciliation package, a new analysis provides important economic insight into the energy and climate provisions that are part of—or should be part of—that work.
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A new study finds that the administrative burdens created when physicians and insurers haggle over reimbursement payments result in substantial lost revenue for healthcare providers.
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Frank and his co-author, Ann Ferris, examined the impacts on the timber sector of the 1990 listing of the northern spotted owl as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, specifically changes in industry employment.
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More than half of people residing in homeless shelters in the United States had formal earnings in the same year they were homeless, according to a new study that deepens understanding of housing insecurity in the U.S.