Research
The California Surplus: What to Do With All This Money?
With California flush, is this the moment to take on tax reform?
Features
Research
L.A. Housing: Racism, skyrocketing prices and now a homeless crisis
How housing has shaped the landscape of Los Angeles. And vice versa
Research
COVID’s Losses: Lives, Jobs, Hope
The unequal toll of a devastating year and the challenge ahead
Research
Focus on Policing: To Abolish or To Reform?
Lorenzo Jones and the deep questions of American policing
Research
Special Report: Health care
Sacramento and Washington each debated health care. Both produced results, but one with common purpose, the other with acrimony
Research
Homeless Prevention
The best way to address homelessness may be to prevent it. But how to do that?
Research
Housing: One size does not fit all
Housing advocates bump up against politics in the attempt to confront one of California’s most difficult problems
Research
Strategies for Schools
The challenges of measuring what works — and what does not — in education
Sketches
Editor's Note
Editor’s Note
California is big, diverse and complicated. The challenge of governing this state is huge.
First Person
Governing Los Angeles
Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez on governing through crises
Landscape
Unions Battle for Survival
Americans like unions, but labor is on the defensive. A note from the front
Editor's Note
Welcome to Blueprint on Homelessness
Blueprint turns to homelessness, a growing tragedy in California and beyond
Takeaway
No Single Solution
To grapple with homelessness, we must begin by considering the varied nature of its challenge
Editor's Note
Welcome to Blueprint on Philanthropy
This issue, we set out to look at the intersection of policy and philanthropy, as well as some of L.A.’s leading philanthropists.
Takeaway
Where Good Intentions Meet Good Works
Upshot of much research on policy and philanthropy: They reinforce one another, to society’s benefit.
