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Receipt of Paid Family Leave and Intimate Partner Violence for Women Employed During the Perinatal Period

July 23, 2026

Jeffry Bart Klika, Eric L. Thibodeau, Melissa T. Merrick, Catherine A. Murphy, Yanghyun Park, Katherine Marçal, Olivia D. Chang, Rujeko Machinga, Kathryn Showalter, Kathryn L. Maguire-Jack

Journal article in Violence Against Women

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The Legacy of Redlining: Links to Adolescent Functional Brain Networks, Perceived Stress, and Internalizing Problems

July 6, 2026

Gabriela L. Suarez, Helen C.S. Meier, Cleanthis Michael, Scott Tillem, Isabella Palomba, Felicia A. Hardi, Enrique Neblett, Colter Mitchell, Christopher Monk, Luke W. Hyde

Journal article in Brain and Environment

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Economic Hardship in Employment, Housing, and Finance Among Transgender Populations In the Context of Federal Protection Rollbacks

June 26, 2026

Arjee Javellana Restar,, Teresa DeAtley, Adedotun Ogunbajo, Simon Sandh, Aaron Breslow, Renata Sanders, José Bauermeister, Trace Kershaw, Don Operario, Kristi E. Gamarel

Journal article in Finance Research Letters

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Displaced Workers and Poor Health Outcomes: A Continuing Challenge for US Population Health

June 18, 2026

Sarah Burgard

Journal article in American Journal of Public Health

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Associations of parental physical assault and psychological aggression toward children and socioeconomic attainment in early adulthood

June 1, 2026

By Lijian Zhao, Yinqi Chen, and Kathryn Maguire-Jack Children and Youth Services Review

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Making Ends Meet Thirty Years Later: How Single Mothers Survive on Low Incomes

May 1, 2026

Natasha Pilkauskas, Kevin Bruey

By Natasha V. Pilkauskas and Kevin Bruey The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences This paper documents the well-being of low-income single mothers nearly thirty years after welfare reform. Using unique data from a monthly cross-sect...

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Financial Outcomes Among Medicaid Expansion Enrollees

April 27, 2026

Nora V. Becker, Helen Levy, Richard A. Hirth, Sarah J. Clark, Renuka Tipirneni, John Ayanian

Journal article in JAMA Network

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Access to Technology-Mediated Community Mental Health Care Among Low-Socioeconomic Status Consumers With Serious Mental Illness: Qualitative Study

April 20, 2026

Alicia K. Stone, Tiffany Veinot

Journal article in JMIR Formative Research

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Addressing Food Insecurity for People With Cancer: We Can No Longer Wait

April 16, 2026

John W. J. Pottow, Laila A. Gharzai, Patricia M. G. Santos, Michele Heisler

JAMA OncologyPeople living in the wealthiest nation on the planet should not have to worry about having enough food to eat. Yet, according to 2023 estimates, approximately 18 million US residents face food insecurity, defined as "the limited or uncer...

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Developing an Intergenerational Model of Structural Racism Exposure among Women in Black Families in South Carolina, 1989–2020

April 14, 2026

Annie Ro, Yanmei Xie, Woo Jung Lee, Kristi L. Allgood, Andrea K. Henderson, Michael P. Huynh, Claire E. Margerison, Belinda Needham, Anton M. Palma, Michael G. Smith, Catherine Vander Woude, Nancy L. Fleischer

Journal article in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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Deliberations on Government Spending Priorities: Listen to the People

April 14, 2026

By Susan Dorr Goold, Zachary Rowe, Lydia Perry, Gloria Carmona, Maria Alvarez, Adnan Hammad, Veronica Romanov, Megan Jiao, and Marion Danis Journal of General Internal Medicine

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Designing for Proactive Accountability: Lessons on Governing Technology from Detroit’s Food Sovereignty Movement

April 13, 2026

Jared Lee Katzman, Ben Green, Tawanna Dillahunt

Research article Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Community intermediary strategies and tactics to close digital divides and enhance equitable technology use in everyday life

April 7, 2026

Marcy Antonio, Alicia Stone, Tawanna Dillahunt, Lorraine Buis, Tiffany Veinot

Journal article in Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

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Referrals to a Novel Health Care Equity Consult Service

March 13, 2026

Samantha Guyah, Okeoma Mmeje, Prianka Shakil-Brown, Kamau Ayubbi, Rachel S. Bergmans, Christina Wright, Erin M. Khang, Susan Dorr Goold, David J. Brown, Erika A. Newman

Journal article in JAMA Network Open

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Unsecured Credit and the Social Safety Net in U.S. States

February 22, 2026

Alec P. Rhodes, Davon Norris, Jason Houle, Rachel E. Dwyer, Sarah K. Bruch, Lawrence M. Berger

Journal article in the American Sociological Review

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Selling low-value housing to owner occupants or investors: The effect on property disinvestment in Detroit

February 13, 2026

Margaret Dewar, Roshanak Mehdipanah

Journal of Urban AffairsResearch on addressing vacant and disinvested properties focuses primarily on remediation, not on prevention. Increasing owner occupancy might prevent property deterioration because homeowners typically maintain properties bet...

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Changes In Medical Debt And Bankruptcy After Acute Traumatic Injuries, 2019–21

February 9, 2026

John W. Scott, Nora V. Becker, Mark R. Hemmila, Nicholas Kunnath, John Ayanian, A. Mark Fendrick, Andrew M. Ryan, Justin B. Dimick

Journal article in Health Affairs

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Interventions to Mitigate the Effects of Housing Insecurity on Child and Adolescent Health: A Scoping Review

February 6, 2026

By Artur Coy-Pérez, Juli Carrere, Anna Fernández, Carme Borrell, Gemma Serral, Esther Sánchez-Ledesma, Irene Macaya, Hugo Vásquez-Vera, Constanza Vásquez-Vera, Roshanak Mehdipanah, and Katherine Pérez Public Health Review

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Persistent poverty, poverty mobility, and young adults’ material hardship

February 1, 2026

By Yoonzie Chung and Kathryn Maguire-Jack Children and Youth Services Review

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Are We the Welfare Office? Managing Administrative Burden in a Guaranteed-Income Pilot

January 26, 2026

By Kristin Seefeldt, Leonymae Aumentado, Yinqi Chen, Dana Schau, Emily Shupp Parker, William Lopez, and Rebeccah Sokol Social Service Review

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Gaps in Identification, Support, and Outcomes for Students Experiencing Homelessness and Housing Instability

January 22, 2026

Tasminda K. Dhaliwal, Sarah Winchell Lenhoff, Jeremy Singer, Jennifer Erb-Downward, Whitney Miller, Bianca Burch, Ariell Bertrand

Journal of Education for Students Placed at RiskThe federal McKinney-Vento Act requires that schools identify and support students experiencing homelessness. Our mixed methods study draws on data from Detroit to examine the extent to which schools ad...

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Lessons for Program Uptake: The 2024 Rx Kids Universal and Unconditional Cash Prescription Program in Flint, Michigan

January 16, 2026

By Yasamean Zamani-Hank, Amanda Nothaft, H. Luke Shaefer, and Mona Hanna Public Health Reports

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Racial Disparities in Victim Compensation Program Claim Approvals for Adult Survivors of Sexual Assault: 18 US States, 2015–2023

January 15, 2026

By Samuel Dickman, Jeremy Levine, Chalem Bolton, Anna Conway, and Kelly Russell American Journal of Public Health

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Examining How Income Influences the Effects of Losing Merit Aid Among Tennessee Community College Students

December 29, 2025

By Rooney Columbus, Kristen M. Cummings, KC Deane, Joshua Skiles, Stephen L. DesJardins, and Brian P. McCall AERA Open

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Children's Intimate Partner Violence Exposure and Mothers' Eviction Stress

December 29, 2025

Kathryn Showalter, Katherine Marcal, Lijian Zhao, Kathryn L. Maguire-Jack, Yanghyun Park, Yinqi Chen

Child & Family Social WorkIntimate partner violence has profound impacts on the housing insecurity of mothers and children. Abusers may control household finances, cause property damage or nuisance complaints, or create financial dependence that prev...

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Association of Medicaid expansion with children's insurance coverage and healthcare utilization

December 22, 2025

By Kim Dalziel, Kao-Ping Chua, Xinyang Hua, Li Huang, Andrew Ryan, Gary L. Freed, Helen Levy, and John Z. Ayanian Health Affairs Scholar

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Love as praxis: Academic and activist pathways to food justice

December 10, 2025

By Lesli Hoey Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development

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Socioeconomic Status and Academic Achievement: Developmental Pathways Through Parenting and Children’s Executive Functions

December 6, 2025

By Nicholas E. Waters, Sammy F. Ahmed, and Pamela E. Davis-Kean Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Racial and Social Inequities in Weathering: the ELSA-Brasil Cohort

December 5, 2025

By Amanda Viana Machado, Sandhi Maria Barreto, Luana Giatti, Rosane Harter Griep, Belinda L. Needham, and Lidyane V. Camelo Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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Racial Disparities in the Mortgage Application Process: Evidence from 2018 to 2024 National-Level Data

December 4, 2025

Patrick Meehan, Sunggeun "Ethan" Park

Race and Social ProblemsThis study investigates racial disparities in the U.S. mortgage application process by examining outcomes beyond traditional credit denial. Using over 37 million mortgage applications submitted between 2018 and 2024, we analyz...

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