The greatest hits edition, so far
Looking back at some of our best posts
Thanks to readers like you, our subscriber count has grown quite a lot in 2023. Iām very grateful for the opportunity to share our work with you! Like many other email newsletters, some issues I cover come up again and again. So, if you are looking for some holiday reading, or are newer to the newsletter, I put together a review of our greatest hits prior to 2023. For each, Iāve written a small blurb about why I think the post is still relevant, and included a preview you can click to get the full article.
This will, in all likelihood, be the last Civic Pulse for the year, so until 2024 we send you our best wishes for a happy, safe, and joyful holiday season however and wherever you celebrate.
On to the topics!
The Housing Crisis
This issue was my attempt at a āPaul Krugmanā style article, including using data from FRED to get up-to-date data and charts. I enjoyed learning about the relationship between wages, inflation, and housing costs over time and those topics continue to be critical to debates about the economy ahead of next yearās election.
Data defense
We are fortunate to work with a wide variety of community organizations, some of which are very mindful of how best to assert the credibility of the information that supports their policy claims. We took some time in 2022 to write up some best practices for defending claims made with data when your credibility is in question.
Get ready for the election year crime wave
I wish this topic wasnāt evergreen, but discussions of crime waves and spending on public safety ebb and flow with the election cycle. If you want to get up to speed on how to navigate all the noise around crime and public safety, this article from 2021 is a good place to start.
Understand how policing is organized
In America, policing is a hyperlocal concern with a very large number of very small police forces, even in major urban areas. We used public data to describe the depth of overlap and variety in policing agencies within urban areas to illustrate this point. Itās work I am always keen to continue!
