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Story How do school funding formulas work? In public school funding, both the state's formula and districts' behavior matter.Story An interactive view of the housing boom and bust An interactive map of the US containing the most recent mortgage data reveals that minorities have been left behind in the housing recovery in many places.Story Diversifying the Classroom: Examining the Teacher Pipeline The teaching workforce in the United States remains predominantly white, even as the student body grows increasingly diverse.Story Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America (2017) Why hasn’t wealth inequality improved over the past 50 years? And why, in particular, has the racial wealth gap not closed?Story The Tipping Point Mission lenders are helping revitalize Detroit by providing local developers with relief from the area’s post-crash credit shortage.Story A Matter of Time: The Causes and Consequences of Rising Time Served in America’s Prisons Attempts to end mass incarceration have largely focused on reforms for nonviolent and less serious convictions, but that won’t be enough.