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PSC 400 - State and Local Policy Analysis: Find Articles

Keywords to Get You Started

Land use regulation*
rent control
affordable housing and polic*
college cost*
debt free
tuition free
promise scholarship*
loan forgiveness
online sales tax*
brick and mortar
housing polic*
homeless* and polic*

Using an asterisk (*)  in a search is called "truncation" or "wildcard" searching. When you end a search term with an asterisk, the database returns results that include all iterations of that word. For example, searching "politi*" would return results with the words "politics," "political," "politicize," and "politicization," among others.

Selected Sources of MA News

Scholarly Journal Databases

Twitter Feed for #endhomelessness

Twitter can be a helpful tool for keeping up with what others are doing as well as a means to advocate policies. You will sometimes find useful links to articles in Tweets.