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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 Miller is a senior fellow at 21CC. She served as the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s under secretary for domestic finance. As under secretary for domestic finance, Miller was responsible for developing and coordinating Treasury’s policies and guidance in the areas of financial institutions, federal debt financing, financial regulation, and capital markets. Previously, Miller served as […]
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 […]
An ambitious new annual survey of Baltimore’s residents aims to inform local policy
Originally published in The HUB. When Johns Hopkins researchers began developing the Baltimore Area Survey—a new annual appraisal of Baltimore City and County residents—they wanted to ask questions on hot-button issues that could inform local and state policy while also gauging the emotional state of the area’s residents. For the transportation section of the survey, for instance, […]
