by nick | May 23, 2023 | Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, People Living in Poverty, Urban Communities
In 2008, the City of Baltimore, Maryland launched a multiyear effort to comprehensively revise the city’s zoning code, which had not been updated for forty years. In order to help ensure that the revision considered the role zoning can play in creating healthier...
by nick | May 23, 2023 | Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, Tribal Communities
The U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) undertook an environmental impact statement (EIS) to inform federal offshore oil and gas plans for five years, spanning 2007-2012. Areas in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas off Alaska’s North Coast were among those...
by nick | May 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
This resource explores evidence regarding the health effects of promoting treatment instead of imprisonment and reducing felony barriers to future employment opportunities for certain drug-related offenses.
by communitycommo | Apr 16, 2023 | Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, People Living in Poverty, Workers and Employees
The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute conducted an HIA to inform a decision on the status of the Wisconsin Transitional Jobs Program during the spring 2013 session that will shape the 2013-2015 biennial state budget. The HIA focused on the immediate...
by communitycommo | Apr 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
This project is informing Kansas legislators of the potential health risks and benefits of a bill that would facilitate the construction of a new casino in southeast Kansas. While previous discussions about casino development have been limited to potential economic...
