A Better Future

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A Better Future
After a devastating year, we asked CAS researchers and experts how they were going to make the world a better place in 2021
COVID-19, continued white violence against Black people, economic hardship. When we asked CAS researchers and experts what they planned to do differently after a heartbreaking, often dispiriting year, they told us about new projects to make work fairer, to protect renters, to depopulate prisons, and to make cities greener. For those whose research has long covered issues of race, the question was less about what they might do differently and more about continuing a protracted push for justice.
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