Since the end of the COVID pandemic in 2021, migrants have entered the United States in unprecedented numbers. Several well-publicized cases of violent crimes committed by recent migrants raise the question of whether the migration spike has led to overall higher crime rates in the communities where these individuals live. This brief explores this question.

Ballot harvesting involves collecting absentee ballots from voters and delivering them to a collection spot. Critics argue that unethical harvesters could change votes on ballots, substitute new ones for the ones they collect, or only deliver ballots supporting their preferred candidates. More subtly, ballot harvesting might also allow a supervisor, professor, or other individual of authority to pressure underlings to vote as that particular individual wishes by watching them fill out ballots and then collecting them.

This brief focuses on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) efforts to increase the number of female and minority air traffic controllers and the potential impact the initiative may have had on air travel safety. The FAA’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative is the subject of a lawsuit filed by individuals who claim they would have been hired if the FAA had not changed its hiring criteria. These individuals also claim that the FAA’s initiative made air travel less safe. Everything Policy’s analysis focuses primarily on the second claim: did emphasizing DEI compromise air safety?