Brian Highsmith

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

SOME PERSONAL NEWS: For the last year I’ve been working with a terrifyingly talented team to put together L.A. Material, a new local news outlet covering Los Angeles. We’re launching TODAY, so please check us out at lamaterial.com.

The application for our next writing fellow is live! We hire early-career reporters for an intensive 2-year reporting and writing stint on our staff. Come join the best team in journalism. The application is at the link. theamericanprospect.submittable.com/submit

I’m very excited to have this piece with Sarah Swan coming out in @georgetownlaw journal

My friend @emilyctamkin wrote a piece of the terrible aptness of comparing the targets of ICE terror to Anne Frank and her family forward.com/opinion/800994…

An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX

This is co-authored work w @robertmanduca (lead author) & Jacob Waggoner. It's been several years in the making: we are excited to share it! Our full dataset of tax base by municipality for the entire US is available for download & further analysis here: robertmanduca.com/publications/

Particularly in a moment of federal retrenchment—with deep cuts to redistributive programs like Medicaid & education funding—the amount of taxable wealth within municipal boundaries (local fiscal capacity) is likely to become an even more important determinant of life outcomes.

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]