There are two reasons to read history. One is to get lost in it, and the other is to learn from it. I've always been more interested in the latter. When economists started published papers on "redlining" a few years ago, it didn't seem like they were giving us that choice. This was history that we were still lost in, whether we read about it or not. So, I wrote a book to understand why.

Olivia Olson recently interviewed Richard Green, Patty Harris, and me about our new paper "Breaking Down Silos to Improve the Health of Older Adults: The Case for Medicare to Cover Home Safety Renovations," which was published in Ageing Research Reviews.

The USC Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise recently interviewed Dan Flaming and me about our recent report, "Locked Out: Unemployment and Homelessness in the Covid Economy." You can view the full interview, as well as a brief highlight reel, here.

At this very moment, someone, somewhere, might be exposing your intimate genetic data. They probably don’t realize they’re doing it. They may not even know who you are. Someday, that information could be used against you.

One of the problems with addressing homelessness is that it’s a slow-moving target. So even after the economy has bounced back, homelessness can continue to rise. The upside is that if it’s a slow-moving target, it means we still have time to catch those people before they fall. So if we expect that homelessness is going to go up a lot in 2022 and 2023, now is the time to put in place a better safety net.

In a new report with the Economic Roundtable, titled Locked Out - Unemployment and Homelessness in the Covid Economy, we use data from the 2008 Great Recession to estimate the linkage between job loss and homelessness. The amount and type of pandemic-driven homelessness in Los Angeles, California, and the United States will significantly increase, driven by large-scale job losses during the Pandemic Recession.

They are stimulating the economy by keeping mortgages flowing — something the private sector didn’t do during the 2008 financial crisis.

What's the future of small cities in America? In this new interview, WalletHub asks me five questions to illuminate their pros and cons.

This week, I presented an update on the ongoing recession to students at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, as part of the University Library's lecture series. It draws parallels from the Great Recession to the COVID-19 recession and provides tangible, evidence-based recommendations to improve the economy now and in the future for recessions to come.