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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?

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. 

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.