The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: January 28, 2015) – Salt Lake City’s Housing First program to manage homelessness has received national recognition recently. In fact, Utah has lead the nation in reducing chronic homelessness – which is defined as long-term or repeated homelessness. Recently advocates and service providers working on homeless issues for…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: January 21, 2015) – America incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. Moreover, the U.S. spends lots of money to keep lots of people in prison. In Utah, corrections officials say continuing growth in prison populations will cost Utah an additional half a billion dollars…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: January 14, 2015) – A panel of students, activists, and policy makers discuss the issues faced by undocumented queer individuals, particularly as they extend beyond the question of same-sex marriage. The panelists include: Mariana Ramiro-Gomez, a graduate in Educational Leadership & Policy; Eusebio Echeveste, Comunidades Unidas Community Engagement…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: December 10, 2014) – Human trafficking is called “the invisible crime”. Victims are often vulnerable immigrants, homeless children, runaways, or young women who are coerced into forced labor, domestic servitude, or most often prostitution or sex slavery. Utah law enforcement officials say it is indeed an under reported,…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: December 3, 2014) – Recently a group of advocates for early childhood education reform gathered for a panel discussion at the University of Utah. Until this year, Utah was one of 10 states that provided no public funding for early childhood education. But HB96 was passed to provide…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: November 26, 2014) – Racial tensions and civil unrest erupted across America, again, following the decision this week by a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, to not indict a white police officer Darren Wilson for shooting and killing 18-year-old Michael Brown in August. Ahead of the grand jury’s…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: November 19, 2014) – Nine countries possess more than 16,000 nuclear weapons. The United States and Russia maintain roughly 1,800 of their nuclear weapons on high-alert status – ready to be launched within minutes of a warning. Most are many times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: November 12, 2014) – Prof. Scott Stroud and Prof. Natalie Jomini Stroud are two scholars from the University of Texas at Austin who research how extreme partisanship hurts democracy. Scott Stroud researches and lectures on the intersection between rhetoric, philosophy, and the connections linking artful communication and democracy…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: October 22, 2014) – this week some top policy makers, planners, academics, and economists gathered at the University of Utah for a conference on Africa, co-sponsored by the Council of American Ambassadors and the Hinckley Institute of Politics. Among the speakers was Daniel Bausch, a virologist who’s spent…
Luke Coffey, an analyst on trans-Atlantic defense and security matters with the Heritage Foundation, spoke recently about Russia’s current conflict with Ukraine, and America’s role.
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