NYS Legislative Session Wrap: Firearm Legislation

Joe Popcun, executive director of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium and director of policy and practice at the Rockefeller Institute, and Nick Simons, project coordinator at the Rockefeller Institute, discuss the major firearm bills that passed the NYS Senate and Assembly in 2021.
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Student Debt in New York State

A compendium of our research on student loan debt, college access and affordability, and policy options for reducing student loan debt burden in New York State.
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COVID-19 Doesn't Respect Borders

In this interview, Jaime Arredondo, a professor in the Drug Policy Program at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), explains how COVID-19 affected drug use and treatment in Mexican cities along the USA-Mexico border.
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Pandemic Exposes Vulnerability—and Size—of the Gig Workforce

This analysis looks at the vast number of unemployment claims by nontraditional workers in 2020 and the challenges states faced in providing them pandemic unemployment assistance.
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Can a Feed-In Tariff Help Increase Renewable Energy Capacity?

The climate policy tool is used to promote the adoption of renewable technologies but there are challenges to its use in the United States.
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Balance of Payments Report

Our 2021 Balance of Payments report looks at the latest available data (2019) showing the differences between how much states gave to the federal government and how much they received in spending.
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From Our Researchers

A New Data Source for Firearm Injury Hospitalizations

June 3, 2021

Using a new dataset from the RAND Corporation, Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium researchers analyzed firearm injury hospitalization rate among Consortium member states and nationally.

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Place-Bound Students and Why They Matter

June 1, 2021

Rockefeller Institute Nathan Fellow Amalia Dache explores the relationships between race, economic-status, and proximity to colleges and universities for residents in the Finger Lakes Region of New York.

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