Features
Profile
Evelyn Blumenberg: Seeing with Fresh Eyes
New thinking on homelessness — the demands of urgency
Research
New Strategies for Communities Under Stress
Activists confront a history of pressure and progress in Boyle Heights
Research
Reconsidering the Single-Family Home
Has the single-family home outlived its usefulness? A UCLA professor dares to question
Research
World Lessons, Learned at Home
Homelessness takes on different forms and requires different responses around the world
Research
Obamacare’s Survival May Depend on States
As Trump attempts to dismantle Obamacare, California leads the fight to preserve it.
Research
Bringing Equity to Education
Meredith Phillips is helping students to learn while learning from them about how to teach others.
Research
Homeboy Industries: A History of Violence. A Hope for the Future.
At Homeboy, researchers discover a model that works.
Research
Los Angeles Foster Children and Those Who Care for Them
Los Angeles was struggling to help its most vulnerable children. Then it learned some lessons.
Table Talk
Norman Lear: Culture Warrior
Norman Lear reflects on a career of influence and consequence.
Sketches
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The purpose and future of cash bail
Bail is meant to get defendants to show up for court. Is that the best way?
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.
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Blueprint Hosts a Lively Evening
Hundreds turn out for an evening discussion of inequality and its ramifications.
Editor's Note
The Dangers of an Unequal Society
With our second issue, Blueprint moves its focus to income and wealth inequality, subjects at the center of modern American politics.
