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Health insurance
Gain in Insurance Coverage and Residual Uninsurance Under the Affordable Care Act: Texas, 2013–2016
About 1 million Texans gained health care coverage due to the Affordable Care Act, according to new research by health policy fellows Vivian Ho and Elena Marks. The new findings published in the American Journal of Public Health examined the effects of the ACA’s Marketplace on Texas residents and determined which population subgroups benefited the most and the least.
Stephen Pickett, Elena M. Marks, Vivian Ho December 7, 2016
A prisoner grabs onto the bars of a jail cell.
Explaining Dimensions of State-level Punitiveness in the United States: The Roles of Social, Economic, and Cultural Factors
States with large African-American populations are more likely to have harsher incarceration practices, worse conditions of confinement and tougher policies toward juveniles compared with other states, according to a study led by Katharine Neill, the Alfred C. Glassell III Postdoctoral Fellow in Drug Policy.
Katharine Neill Harris, Juita-Elena (Wie) Yusuf, John C. Morris August 13, 2014