Fall 2024 Originally published in KSAS Magazine. “If you want to know what’s on the minds of Baltimore residents, you have to ask them. They are best equipped to speak frankly about challenges, inequities, and quality of life in this city of more than 550,000 people. That’s the idea behind the annual Baltimore Area Survey, […]
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Hopkins study reveals extent of opioid epidemic on Baltimore City residents
Originally published by WBAL. A Johns Hopkins University study reveals the extent of the opioid epidemic among Baltimore residents. Hopkins data from the 2023 Baltimore Area Survey found drug overdoses disproportionately affect the poorest and least-educated residents of Baltimore City and Baltimore County. The data found more than half of the city’s adults who did not graduate high […]
Originally published in The Baltimore Sun. In Baltimore, Black residents tend to be hit the hardest by public health crises, but results from a community survey released Tuesday by Johns Hopkins University show that income level and educational attainment are more powerful than race at predicting whether a Baltimorean has lost someone close to them from […]
Community Exposure to Drug Overdose and Addiction in Baltimore
More than half of Baltimore area adults who have not graduated from high school know someone who has died from a drug overdose—far more than any other socioeconomic group in the region. Our new report, based on data from the 2023 Baltimore Area Survey, offers deeper understanding of the families touched by Baltimore’s growing drug addiction […]
Mary John Miller has been a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University 21st Century Cities Initiative since 2017. Ms. Miller served as the U.S. Treasury’s Under Secretary for Domestic Finance from 2012 to 2014 where she oversaw Treasury debt management, fiscal operations, recovery from the financial crisis, and implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial reform […]
Mac is the senior program manager of 21CC. He serves as the project manager for the Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative (BSEC). His research focuses on business dynamics, access to capital for small businesses and minority entrepreneurs, and neighborhood quality of life in cities. He serves on the board of WYPR, NPR’s local affiliate station and on the board […]
Michael Bader’s research focuses on how residents and businesses locate in particular neighborhoods and how these choices lead to racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequalities in Americans’ well-being, such as low accessibility to nutritious food. He has developed methodological tools that combine different types of data—including the Baltimore Area Survey and Google Street View—to study neighborhood […]
The loss of Baltimore’s bridge has snarled traffic. How do commuters cope?
Originally published by Marketplace. “Part of what’s going to end up happening is a lot of truck traffic that had gone over the Key Bridge is now going to be going through the suburbs, and that’s going to cause problems on [Interstate] 695, which is the beltway in Baltimore,” said Michael Bader. He runs the 21st […]