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Mayor Walsh will be delivering 17th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture on housing policy (Monday, March 20 - 6:30pm at HGSD). The event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Follow the link below to learn more/register.

17th Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture with Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh (Event of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University) has made his mark in Boston and, increasingly, on the national stage as well. A former leader of Boston's construction trade unions who also served as a state representative, Walsh has made housing and community development central to his efforts to ensure that Boston is a "thriving, healthy, and in...

Just 4 more days to get early bird student tickets for the 2017 Conference on Poverty & Inequality at the Harvard Kennedy School!

Visit our website to get tickets and learn more about the conference!
http://sapsiconference.wixsite.com/povertyconference/registration

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CBO reports that the proposed repeal of the ACA could have sweeping consequences for access to health insurance in the US. Following a repeal, the number of uninsured could increase by 32 million over the next decade.

Full Report Available Here: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52371

18 million would lose insurance in first year of Obamacare repeal without replacement, CBO report says The number of people without insurance would grow to about 32 million within the first decade if Republicans follow a 2015 plan to repeal Obamacare without a replacement, the new report says.

The latest from Picketty, Saez, and Zucman on the growth of inequality in the US.

The full paper is available here: http://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/distributional-national-accounts/

Nine New Findings About Inequality in the United States In a paper published last week, Piketty, Saez and Zucman expand their earlier work on income inequality, examining how taxes and government spending affect income inequality.