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Housing Markets

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How New York City Can Make Housing More Affordable
With few vacancies, rents in New York City have become some of the most unaffordable in the world. People with subsidized housing vouchers often have nowhere to go to use them. Housing production is a critical part of any solution to housing affordability—in New York and elsewhere.
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Nov 10, 2023

Mental Health Treatment

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Therapeutic Use of Psychedelics in Treating PTSD and Depression Among Veterans
Clinical trials have shown that psychedelics can have a positive effect on mental health conditions like PTSD or depression for some people. Enthusiasm for these treatments has grown among veterans and providers who work with military populations. The VA should invest in research and provide guidance on psychedelics.
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Nov 8, 2023
Food Insecurity

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Why Are U.S. Military Families Experiencing Food Insecurity?
Around a quarter of active-duty service members qualify as “food insecure.” But what's causing that, how to fix it—even what it means—is not clear. Food insecurity is a multifaceted problem that needs multifaceted solutions.
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Nov 6, 2023
Sleep

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Insomnia: The Multibillion-Dollar Problem Sapping World Productivity
From the doctor's office to the office at work, good sleep is often overlooked as a key part of well-being. We pay for that. Chronic insomnia is associated with an average loss in workplace productivity of 45–54 days, resulting in estimated annual losses in GDP of more than $200 billion.
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Sep 8, 2023
Trauma

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Trauma Takes a Toll in the U.S. Intelligence Community
For people in the intelligence community, the risk of experiencing a variety of traumas is very real. Agencies should look more closely at their workforces to better understand the traumas their analysts face and what they can do to help.
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Sep 6, 2023
Education Policy

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A Four-Day School Week? Here Are the Costs and Benefits
Hundreds of small school districts across America have cut one day a week from their calendars. A shorter school week helps them compete for teachers and reduce costs. Teachers and parents love it. But is it really in the best interests of students?
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Aug 31, 2023
Health Interventions

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A Promising New Program Treats Co-Occurring Mental Health and Opioid Use Disorders
People who have an opioid use disorder and either clinical depression or PTSD are hard to reach, hard to treat, and hard to hold onto. A new collaborative care model called CLARO aims to help patients who otherwise might disappear into the cracks of the U.S. health care system.
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Jul 3, 2023
Substance Use Disorder Treatment

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America's Opioid Crisis: Adopting an Ecosystem Approach
The opioid crisis is metastasizing throughout society, reaching across public health and public safety, but also education, employment, and the child welfare system. Without profound change and new approaches to the crisis, hundreds of thousands of people could die in the coming years.
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Jun 30, 2023
Homeland Security

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Truth Decay Is Putting U.S. National Security at Risk
Truth Decay—the diminishing role of facts and analysis in public life—could weaken the U.S. military, costs America credibility with its allies, and calls into question the nation's ability to respond to the next big crisis. How can the United States guard against these risks?
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Jun 28, 2023
Racial Equity

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What Would It Take to Close America's Black-White Wealth Gap?
White Americans hold ten times more total wealth than Black Americans, a disparity that has worsened in recent decades. RAND researchers modeled wealth across millions of households and tested several funding scenarios to see which could most effectively close the gap.
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May 9, 2023
Mental Health and Illness

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Mental Health First Aid: Training People to Help Others
An innovative program trains and empowers people to not look away from those experiencing mental illness, but to listen to them, reassure them, and encourage them to get help. Most trainees of the program in New York City were still using what they had learned five years later.
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May 3, 2023
Environmental and Natural Resource Management

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The Time to Prevent Shortfalls in Critical Materials Is Now
China's domination of the rare earth market is a matter of economic and national security concern. Existing plans to diversify the market and help the United States break its reliance on China likely don't go far enough or fast enough, and the clock is running.
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Mar 20, 2023
Natural Hazards

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An Early Warning System for Landslides Protects Sitka, Alaska
A 2015 landslide that killed three people in Sitka, Alaska, changed how residents looked at the steep hills all around them. The community worked with researchers to develop a warning system to prevent such tragedies in the future.
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Mar 14, 2023
Crime and Violence Prevention

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Preventing Violence in Schools: How to Encourage Students to Report Threats
One of the most consistent findings in research on school shootings is that someone knew an attack was possible but didn't report it. There are ways schools can better encourage students to come forward when they see or hear something concerning: tip lines, training, and a lot more trust.
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Mar 9, 2023
Data Analysis

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Hackathon Focuses on Making Policing More Equitable
Hackathons bring new ideas and perspectives to hard policy problems and introduce college students to the field of policy analysis. The latest hackathon, hosted by Pardee RAND and RAND NextGen, explored ways to make the criminal justice system more equitable and more effective.
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Jan 9, 2023
Space Science and Technology

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What Might Space Look Like in 2050?
It would not take huge technological breakthroughs to make space and space travel a much bigger part of everyday life. Instead, it would take a steady progression of incremental advances—and one development in particular could provide the tipping point.
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Jan 5, 2023

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

BBC World Service's efforts [to begin broadcasting a Gaza emergency service]…should motivate the U.S. Agency for Global Media…to initiate its own radio transmissions to Gaza. Doing so would not only provide Gaza's 2 million residents with valuable news and information but potentially help to begin rebuilding regional trust in the United States' voice in finding a durable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Benjamin J. Sacks

Policy Researcher

Source: Inside Sources

What Climate-Related Conflict Could Mean for U.S. Central Command

National Identity and the Origins of the War in Ukraine

One More Chance for COP Reform

BBC's Gaza Service Demonstrates Power of Radio During Conflict

The Safety and Security of the U.S. Maritime Environment

The Policy Currents Podcast

Developing Strategies for Summer Learning

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

The RAND Blog

How New York City Can Make Housing More Affordable

Therapeutic Use of Psychedelics in Treating PTSD and Depression Among Veterans

Why Are U.S. Military Families Experiencing Food Insecurity?

Insomnia: The Multibillion-Dollar Problem Sapping World Productivity

Trauma Takes a Toll in the U.S. Intelligence Community

A Four-Day School Week? Here Are the Costs and Benefits

A Promising New Program Treats Co-Occurring Mental Health and Opioid Use Disorders

America's Opioid Crisis: Adopting an Ecosystem Approach

Truth Decay Is Putting U.S. National Security at Risk

What Would It Take to Close America's Black-White Wealth Gap?

Mental Health First Aid: Training People to Help Others

The Time to Prevent Shortfalls in Critical Materials Is Now

An Early Warning System for Landslides Protects Sitka, Alaska

Preventing Violence in Schools: How to Encourage Students to Report Threats

Hackathon Focuses on Making Policing More Equitable

What Might Space Look Like in 2050?

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