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How a Community's Consumer Culture Syncs with Its Political Culture in 2018

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Where American Communities Agree and Disagree on Climate Change

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by American Communities Project

The American Communities

The American Communities Project uses data and reporting to study the cultural, socioeconomic and political changes that are remaking the country at the local level using 15 types of counties.

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Youth

A Place-Based Approach Is Helping D.C. Children in Poverty Succeed

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Culture

How a Community’s Consumer Culture Syncs with Its Political Culture in 2018

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Health

In Texas, an Innovative Spirit Infuses Mental Healthcare

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Health

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Vol. 1 October 2018

Health and Place in America

The American Communities Project releases its first report supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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