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Leigh Anderson joined the Evans School faculty in 1997. Her primary research interest is in how individuals living in poverty make financial, environmental, health, and other livelihood decisions, especially when outcomes are highly risky or spread over time. Her current research focuses on rural poverty and agriculture, and market and policy institutions. Anderson founded and directs the Evans School Policy Analysis and Research Group (EPAR) who produce evidence reviews on a range of topics who make accessible data, code and visualizations for agricultural, digital financial services, and wo...

Zoning update afoot to diversify heavily residential Golden Triangle BusinessDen file photos) A zoning update in the works for the Golden Triangle neighborhood aims to diversify what’s built there in the future. Over the past decade, new projects in the downtown-adjacent neighborhood have been nearly entirely residential in nature, some of them apartment buildings up to 16 stories. “There’s a concern among residents that those are not as eclectic a mix of sizes and uses as they’d like to see,” Kristofer Johnson, a city planner with Denver’s Community Planning and Development, told...

Denver's premier independent creative-writing institution, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, announced its new location this week, a brand-new building at 39th and York streets, just off the new greenway bordering the Clayton and Cole neighborhoods. Lighthouse had previously done business — and offered important literary contributions to the city and state — at various historic sites. Early on, the group founded in 1997 operated out of the Thomas Hornsby Ferril House, named for Colorado’s first poet laureate. Most recently, the nonprofit has been based in the equally historic Milheim House...

Economic support policies may prevent child maltreatment Providing economic relief to struggling families can lead to another positive effect -- fewer cases of child neglect, according to new research by the University of Washington. A 10% increase in a common benefit for low- to moderate-income working families, the Earned Income Tax Credit, led to a 9% decrease in the annual number of reports of child neglect made to child welfare agencies over a 14-year study period. That's a significant impact, researchers say, and can inform future social policies. The study is relevant to current policy...

To reduce cases of child neglect, provide economic relief to struggling families, research indicates. A 10% increase in a common benefit for low- to moderate-income working families, the Earned Income Tax Credit, led to a 9% decrease in the annual number of reports of child neglect made to child welfare agencies over a 14-year study period. That’s a significant impact, researchers say, and can inform future social policies. The study is relevant to current policy actions, as President Joe Biden has recently proposed an expansion of the child tax credit as part of his new stimulus plan. “T...