Emily Rosenman

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    Recent scandals highlight the policy influence that wealthy families gain from making charitable donations  

Recent scandals highlight the policy influence that wealthy families gain from making charitable donations  

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Last month it was revealed that wealthy American parents paid bribes to ensure their children could attend elite universities and that the British and American Sackler family has sold the pain reliever OxyContin while knowing of its addictive and deleterious qualities. Dan Cohen and Emily Rosenman argue that these two seemingly unrelated scandals illustrate the influence that philanthropy and […]

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    The practice of demolishing abandoned houses in Cleveland, Ohio is limited in its capacity to address underlying causes of housing injustice

The practice of demolishing abandoned houses in Cleveland, Ohio is limited in its capacity to address underlying causes of housing injustice

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In the past decade, Cleveland, Ohio has seen the demolition of 8,000 abandoned homes, with more than 5,000 further demolitions planned. Samuel Walker and Emily Rosenman argue that in asking cities with shrinking tax bases to address foreclosures – the aftereffects of the failure of speculative housing finance – the federal government is putting these municipalities in charge of […]

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