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New Data Show about 1 in 10 Adults Turns To Charitable Food Assistance How much do we know about individuals and families who use charitable food assistance?Live Blog: Urban’s First “Research-A-Thon” Explores Public Housing and Proximity to Jobs What could we learn from dramatically accelerating the research publishing process?How Understanding Trauma Can Help Students Achieve Violent actions taken generations ago can still have an impact on families today.Who Zones? Mapping Land-Use Authority across the US Investigation is lacking around what level of government holds the authority to zone what land.Three Lessons Businesses Can Learn from Uber’s Collecting and Reporting Sexual Assault Data Uber released their first US Safety Report, which includes a focus on sexual assault occurring on their platform.Tech-Enhanced Instruction May Help College Students Succeed—But There Is More to Learn A new Urban Institute report finds potential for technology-enhanced instruction, but the results do not hold in community colleges.