Research Roundup

In this Research Roundup:

Prosperity Economics, an antidote to “austerity economics.” Plus, recent reports from: the Annie E. Casey Foundation on key indicators of child well-being in each state, the Pew Charitable Trusts Economic Mobility Project on economic mobility across generations, the Strengthen Social Security coalition on how Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid work for each of the fifty states, People for the American Way on the “predatory privatization” of public services and assets, News21 on how the voter fraud that state voter suppression laws purport to address is “virtually non-existent,” the National Education Association on how anti-union RTW laws increase poverty, the Center for American Progress on growing conservative attempts to politicize state court systems through legislation, Americans for Tax Fairness on the effect that extending the Bush tax cuts for the richest 2% would have state-by-state, and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on how many weeks of unemployment compensation are available state-by-state.

In this week’s Research Roundup: Reports from Families USA on the deadly consequences of being uninsured, the Corporate Reform Coalition surveying all 50 states’ legislative responses to the Citizens United ruling, the National Employment Law Project on the looming financial cliff for the long-term unemployed, the Urban Institute on how states would spend at least $90 billion less with the Affordable Care Act than without it, the Center for American Progress on the effects of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Medicaid, the Guttmacher Institute takes on declining but still worrying state legislative trends around attacks on reproductive rights so far in 2012, and the Brennan Center for Justice on the growing costs of criminal justice debt to states and communities.

Reports from both Enterprise Community Partners and ProPublica on how states are spending their share of the $2.5 billion they collectively received in direct payments from the foreclosure settlement with big banks, the National Partnership for Women and Families surveying laws that help new parents in all 50 states, the Pew Center on the States on the findings of their first analysis of economic mobility at the state level, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on how state budgets continue to feel pain from the effects of the recession, the Urban Institute on how almost every state has seen access to health care deteriorate for their adult residents over the past decade, the Center for Economic and Policy Research on both the significant savings states could experience through work-sharing and the size and characteristics of states’ unionized workforces, the Economic Policy Institute on the declining labor force participation rate and whether it is due to cyclical or structural changes in the economy, and the Commonwealth Fund on how most private individual health plans will fall short of what can be sold through the health exchanges as of 2014.