2022 Spring Edition: Seeing the Unseen

A Letter from the Editor

Last year, GPPR examined the “Inequality Pandemic”, with pieces that spoke not only to the present crisis but to the lingering equity concerns that were highlighted and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the pandemic still looms larger, even as the world has undergone an unprecedented vaccination effort. With the shadow of COVID looming large, however, this year’s edition turns toward policy problems that are themselves cloaked in shadow – unseen by an unaware public.

In the articles presented in this issue, our authors use data-driven analysis to point to underlying social issues and make informed policy choices. In doing so, they point the way forward to creating a more inclusive society and undoing the wrongs that have been done. They shine light on the hidden corners of the policy world. They see what is unseen.

I hope that you, our reader, will open your eyes and mind to problems to which you might have been blind. The lessons here will help us build more inclusive governments, economies, and communities – striving, as ever, for a better world.

Declan Murphy, Senior Spring Editor