For years, I’ve wondered if part of our national discussion about taxes is made more difficult because people don’t have a full understanding of how the US ‘rate-and-bracket’ tax structure actually works. My thoughts about how we discuss taxes was…
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Last year, I was invited to speak to the Social Security Technical Panel, a group of experts who convene every four years to review the assumptions of the Social Security Trustees, a six-member board charged with overseeing the Social Security…
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In this week’s episode, I start to celebrate my new book, Elevate the Debate: A Multilayered Approach to Communicating Your Research. Co-authored with my colleagues in the communications department at the Urban Institute, the goal of the book is to…
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Great research—whether it comes from academia, nonprofit organizations, or business thought leaders—needs a plan to make an impact. A good communications strategy can ensure that the biggest audience, and ultimately the right audience, engages with the findings and applies them. The Urban Institute’s communications…
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Hi everyone! Welcome back to the PolicyViz Podcast! On this week’s episode, I’m excited to welcome my Urban Institute colleague Tracy Gordon to the show. Tracy is a senior fellow with the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, where she researches and writes…
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This post was originally published on the Urban Institute’s blog, Urban Wire on April 7, 2016. Last week, five members of the US women’s national soccer team filed a wage-discrimination suitagainst the US Soccer Federation (USF). The players claim that despite generating significantly…
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This post was originally published on the Urban Institute’s blog, Urban Wire on December 17, 2015. Earlier this week, I wrote about how new and nontraditional forms of data hold promise for public policy researchers, but also raise a lot of new questions….
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This post was originally published on the Urban Institute’s blog, Urban Wire on December 14, 2015. Changes in the value, kinds, and availability of data can have a profound impact on how places like the Urban Institute conduct research. As new kinds of…
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It’s not clear to me that public policy researchers have agreement on what is meant by the term “Big Data” and how to utilize such data in their work. An example is the yesterday’s preconference “Big Data and Public Policy…
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This post was originally published on the Urban Institute’s blog, Urban Wire on August 13, 2015. Over the past few years, there have been some exciting developments in open source tools and programming languages, business intelligence tools, big data, open data, and…
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