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Understanding Levers to Reduce Poverty for Individuals and Communities

Understanding Levers to Reduce Poverty for Individuals and Communities (0)

October 22, 2008 • Category: Featured Articles, Lead Story

With funding from the Northwest Area Foundation, interdisciplinary researchers from the Evans School are working to understand what poverty-reduction policies are most effective in communities.  The team is particularly interested in the effectiveness of poverty policies in different urban and rural contexts and for different racial and ethnic groups, and in relation to the local [...]

Understanding Levers to Reduce Poverty for Individuals and Communities

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Effects from Living in Mixed-Income Communities for Low-Income Families (0)

Urban Institute published an annotated literature review, in November 2010, that surveys the research on mixed-income housing that focuses on the impact on low-income children and adults. Abstract: There continues to be considerable interest in the potential of mixed-income housing and neighborhoods to alleviate poverty, desegregate neighborhoods in terms of household income, and revitalize neighborhoods.  [...]

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Community Vitality Project Team Members Present at Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference (0)

Amy Fuhrman will present a paper co-authored by Jane Cover and Rachel Garshick Kleit entitled “Is Hispanic Migration to New Destinations a Source of Community Revitalization?” at the 2011 annual conference of the Urban Affairs Association held March 16-19th,2011 in New Orleans, Louisiana.  This year’s conference theme is Reclaiming the City: Building a Just and [...]

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Government Organizations and Resources (0)

Administration on Aging U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.aoa.gov/ Administration for Children and Families U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.acf.hhs.gov/ County Business Patterns U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html Health Insurance Statistics U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthins.html Income Statistics U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income.html National Child Care Information Center U.S. Department of Health and Human [...]