Alcohol & Heroin

A post in which an idea exits my head and lands here on the resemblance between a 50-year old area marked by alcohol and homelessness and a contemporary area marked by opioids and homelessness.

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Stephen Metraux
What Do Homeless People Earn?

For all we laud the importance of work as a way out of poverty, nobody seems to pay much attention to work and earnings among the homeless population. Here I debut a manuscript due to be published in Cityscape in which we look at comprehensive earnings data and report the extent that homeless people work and how much they earn over a 20 year period.

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Stephen Metraux
Ending Summer

The markers of the seasons changing turn from long-held academic ones to more research-oriented ones. Here are some thoughts of again picking up a research proposal and returning to grant-writing mode.

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Stephen Metraux