Without Roe v. Wade, Millions Will Travel Farther for Abortion Care

The median distance to a clinic would increase from 40 miles to 113.5 miles. State-level legislation “abortion care deserts” that will disproportionally effect women of color and the impoverished. Large swathes of the country would experience a...
11-May-2022 3:45 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Long-term planning projections highlight economic challenges, opportunities in Utah’s coal counties

The Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute today released a report that references the institute’s 40-year population and employment planning projections to highlight how scheduled power plant closures and declining coal production will affect Utah’s...
9-May-2022 12:45 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Sorenson Impact Center Launches Putting Public Assets to Work Incubator

The Sorenson Impact Center, in partnership with the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) and Urban3, is launching, ‘Putting Assets to Work’, an incubator program designed to help cities and counties leverage existing government assets...
27-Apr-2022 1:55 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Ten Ideas to Tackle America's Housing Affordability Crisis

Today, Ivory Innovations announced the Top 10 finalists for the 2022 Ivory Prize for Housing Affordability, a national award to recognize ambitious, feasible, and scalable solutions to housing affordability.
21-Apr-2022 11:15 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Natural History Museum of Utah releases Triceratops Traits, a new investigation for middle school science classes

In Triceratops Traits, students work alongside paleontologists to solve an evolutionary mystery by analyzing and interpreting data from the fossil record under the premise that natural laws have operated the same throughout the history of life on...
20-Apr-2022 1:10 PM EDT Add to Favorites

U to expand Pacific Islands Studies with momentous $1M Mellon Grant

The University of Utah’s School for Cultural and Social Transformation (Transform) has been awarded a $1,000,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support growth and outreach in its Pacific Islands (PI) Studies program. The award will expand...
29-Mar-2022 1:30 PM EDT Add to Favorites

First-ever study of LGBT+ experiences in physics reveals red flags

LGBT+ physicists often face harassment and other behaviors that make them leave the profession, according to a new study, which comes as physics as a discipline has attempted to grapple with equity and inclusion issues. The authors found that the...
14-Mar-2022 12:50 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Salt Lake County rental rates increase by double digits in 2021; vacancy at 2%

Salt Lake County’s housing shortage and high home prices have led to the “tightest” apartment market in the county’s history, according to research released today by the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute.
9-Mar-2022 7:05 PM EST Add to Favorites