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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: 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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New Report: U.S. Metros Propel America’s Economy and Might Drive Its Recovery (3)

Researchers from the Brookings Institution recently released a new article arguing there is a  mismatch between our nation’s policies and economic reality.  According to the authors, policymakers have failed to realize that the American economy is not a national economy, or even a collection of 50 state economies, but rather, is composed of 363 distinct metropolitan [...]

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Community Vitality Project Team Members Present at Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference (0)

Community Vitality Project team members will present two papers at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.
Colleen Chrisinger, Christopher Fowler, and Rachel Garshick Kleit will present their paper “Identification of Shared Labor Pools for Workforce and Industrial Cluster Development.“ 
Man Wang and Rachel Garshick Kleit will present their paper “Spatial Variations [...]

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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 Services
http://www.nccic.org
National Institutes of Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.nih.gov/
Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement
U.S. Department [...]

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    The Community Vitality Project is a multi-year project funded by the Northwest Area Foundation to conduct research and make available data on policy levers to reduce poverty for individuals and communities.

     

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