The Podcast @ DC

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital tells ... Read more

Nationally, black males are 15% less likely to graduate high school then their white counterparts. That’s a loss of a ge... Read more

As DC grows, the limited availability of affordable housing makes living in the District difficult, or even impossible, ... Read more

What's the most important factor in a successful school? When we're renovating or building a new school, what do we care... Read more

Exposure to cold is one reason that mortality in the United States peaks in winter, and a higher heating price increases... Read more

In February 2018, DC welcomed its 700,000th resident, putting the city’s population at its highest its since the mid-197... Read more

Across the United States, police officers are being given a new arsenal of big data tools and with this wealth of inform... Read more

For long-time residents of Washington, DC’s Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent y... Read more

Every year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, requires jurisdictions to conduct a census and... Read more

About our guest:Donald P. Green is J. W. Burgess Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. Professor Green ... Read more

The U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking developed a strategy for increasing the availability and use of data ... Read more

We’re doing something a little different on the podcast: we’ll be talking about our approach to figuring out what works ... Read more

In 2008, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, launched the Family Options Study, a bold and rig... Read more

Earlier this summer, our team had the opportunity to join the Association for Psychological Science’s annual conference ... Read more

Childhood is a very important time in a human’s personal and cognitive development. Unfortunately, early exposure to all... Read more

In the past few years a new way of changing people's behavior has been discovered: Helping them to revise the stories th... Read more

How do we encourage state and local governments and partners to develop and use a portfolio of evidence? What might that... Read more

It’s common sense that governments want to use their resources effectively by investing in programs and policies that ha... Read more

Followers of The Lab @ DC may be familiar with one of our first projects, which was a collaboration with DC’s Metropolit... Read more

What does a City Administrator do? And more specifically, what does DC's City Administrator do? In this first-ever, live... Read more