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Abell Reports are commissioned reports by subject matter experts, academics, and investigative journalists that provide studies of selected issues on the public agenda.
These projects – undertaken with grant funding by academics and nonprofit research and advocacy organizations – advance learning on issues key to Baltimore City.
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In 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a consent decree for the Baltimore Police Department, mandating wide-ranging reforms. In a pair of companion reports, researchers from the University of Maryland examine the current state of community-police relations and how certain initiatives could help to improve them.
Eviction prevention programs, which cover up to three months of past-due rent, are a cost-effective way to stabilize families, pay landlords, and reduce costs to the state. This report examines two different scenarios that would prevent disruptive displacements.
Ten years ago, Maryland’s legislature passed a bill to expedite utilities’ replacement of their natural gas pipes in the name of safety. Since then, Maryland has adopted ambitious climate goals that will require the near elimination of natural gas use in homes by 2045. Yet the state continues to allow utilities to invest billions in replacing pipes, which consumers will have to pay for — with a profit for the utilities — for decades to come.
A growing body of social science evidence suggests that divorce poses significant and long-lasting risks for children.
“We just wanted to make sure these people [at needle exchange sites and soup kitchens] got a fair shake.”
Can Baltimore position its considerable cultural arts assets to better serve the community? Is Charlotte’s effort a model?
“Soft hearts and hard data” are making a difference . . .
Once the facts are presented it becomes clear that Maryland’s state personal income tax is not out of line with other states and the more serious threat to future economic development may be the ability of state and local governments to provide the level and quality of services necessary to support that development.
Header photo courtesy of Venture for America.
