Research
COVID-19’s Quiet Toll on Children
When COVID hit, calls for service for troubled children dropped. That’s a good thing, right?
Features
Research
Guiding the Police
Jorja Leap spearheads an effort to examine the LAPD’s work in Nickerson Gardens and beyond
Research
Ananya Roy and the Role of the Public University
Ananya Roy fuses teaching, scholarship and activism
Research
Homeless Prevention
The best way to address homelessness may be to prevent it. But how to do that?
Research
Strategies for Schools
The challenges of measuring what works — and what does not — in education
Profile
Evelyn Blumenberg: Seeing with Fresh Eyes
New thinking on homelessness — the demands of urgency
Research
Do the Poor Bring Crime with Them?
Michael Lens challenges assumptions about the poor, housing and crime
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.
Sketches
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
Landscape
L.A. Grapples With Homelessness, Not Always Well
A case-study in Los Angeles’ struggle to address homelessness
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.
Exclusively Online
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.
Landscape
Ananya Roy: A Leading Voice for Change
One of America’s most forceful advocates for economic justice brings her work to UCLA.
Landscape
Working Poor, Working Hard
One young Los Angeles worker struggles to make ends meet on minimum wage.
