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Intelligence Studies Project poll finds a strong majority of Americans have confidence in U.S. intelligence community
Despite a barrage of antagonism from the president — including rejecting the judgment of the U.S. intelligence community (IC) on Russia's interference in the 2016 elections, attacking U.S. intelligence agencies and their former leaders and accusing the IC of spying on his campaign — most Americans, including Republicans, continue to express confidence in the IC.
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LBJ Dean Angela Evans moderates forum on homelessness in Austin
LBJ School Dean Angela Evans moderated a panel sponsored by the Downtown Austin Alliance on July 23 about recent changes to the camping and sit/lie ordinances that went into effect July 1. Attendees heard from Austin police about how it is interpreting and enforcing the new laws and from city officials about homelessness planning, including recommendations, which are due in August, for shelters in each council district.
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Access to reproductive health care in Texas: Rosie's Law and the Hyde Amendment
Access to reproductive health care in Texas is an issue for many living in the state. Many abortion clinics in Texas have closed since HB 2 took effect in 2013. More broadly, rural areas of Texas have faced widespread closures of health facilities, leaving many without nearby access to care. Barriers to care can also include financial barriers: If someone does not have insurance, or if their insurance doesn’t cover a procedure to the extent that they can afford to get that procedure, they will be unable to access that care.
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Free webinar July 25: Investing in America's Workforce
Register to join the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources for a free webinar, "Investing in America's Workforce: Investing in Systems for Employment Opportunity" on July 25, 2019. The one-hour event is sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and begins at 3 p.m. ET.
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LBJ's Michele Deitch named to Texas Task Force on Dual Status Youth
As a criminal justice expert, Michele Deitch, a senior lecturer at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and The University of Texas School of Law, is an invaluable resource to the state of Texas on a number of social and juvenile justice issues. The CHASP Fellow now been asked to serve on the Texas Supreme Court's Children's Commission Task Force on Dual Status Youth. The statewide task force is comprised of judges, practitioners and experts on juvenile justice focused on the needs of youth who are in both the juvenile justice system and the child welfare system.
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Toward a better metric of work
In 2018, the United States' unemployment rate dropped below 4 percent for the first time since the end of the dot-com bubble in early 2000. This is certainly a historic occurrence: unemployment rates hovered around 3 percent during the postwar era of golden age capitalism, but the economic contraction that began in the 1970s was accompanied by a coincident decline in employment, and the unemployment rate reached a ceiling of 10.2 percent in November of 1982. So if today the metrics that quantify economic health seem to indicate that the coast is clear, why does it still feel like we’re living in a recession economy?
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LBJ Dean Angela Evans to moderate a July 23 public forum on homelessness in Austin
LBJ School Dean Angela Evans will moderate a panel sponsored by the Downtown Austin Alliance featuring Austin city and police officials from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 23 to discuss recent changes to the camping and sit/lie ordinances that went into effect July 1. The forum will take place at Central Presbyterian Church, 200 E. 8th St.
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LBJ Professor Paul von Hippel honored by the American Sociological Association
LBJ Associate Professor Paul von Hippel is the 2019 winner of the American Sociological Association's Leo Goodman Award, conferred by the organization's methodology section to recognize a scholar’s contributions to the field of methodology or innovative uses of sociological methodology early in his or her career — no more than 15 years after earning a Ph.D.
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Electronic intervention is a cost-effective way to help women with substance abuse issues
Providing substance-abuse intervention services for women, particularly in the setting of reproductive health centers, is critical to positive patient outcomes, and offering those services electronically is much less expensive and just as effective in reducing substance abuse as a clinician-delivered intervention, according to new research from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin published in the journal Addiction.
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Medicaid work requirements: Do they work?
When I began a semester long research project on welfare work requirements for an economics of U.S. person-based anti-poverty policy in the fall of 2018, I had no idea the complex evolution of the policies and politics surrounding this issue.
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