What’s ahead for U.S.-Russia relations, America’s growing diversity, and the academic impacts of homelessness.
Improving how we identify and support students experiencing homelessness An influx of funding from the American Rescue Plan has created a historic opportunity to strengthen services for one of the most underserved groups of U.S. students—those experiencing homelessness. Tasminda Dhaliwal and Soledad De Gregorio share research on how homelessness impacts academic achievement and outline best practices for student outreach and support. Read more | US-Russia relations, 1 year after Geneva U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s June 2021 meeting in Geneva offered some positives and there were even small signs of progress in the months that followed. Now, in the aftermath of the Ukraine invasion, it will be a long time before the U.S.-Russia relationship can approach anything that resembles “normal,” Steven Pifer writes. Read more | Today’s suburbs are symbolic of America’s rising diversity U.S. suburbs have often been viewed as far whiter than the rest of the nation, but 2020 census data show that things are changing. Over the 2010-20 decade, most big suburbs of major metro areas experienced declines in their white populations. The greatest growth in these places came from Latino or Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, Black Americans, and persons identifying as two or more races, William Frey finds. Read more | The conclusions and recommendations of any Brookings publication are solely those of its author(s), and do not reflect the views of the Institution, its management, or its other scholars. | |