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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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The Geography of Jobs (0)

TIP Strategies has produced a compelling visualization of the job gains and losses in metropolitan areas throughout the country over the past 5 years.
Click here to view the animation of the geography of jobs in metropolitan areas

The Slate Group has produced a similar visualization of job gains and losses in counties over the past 3 [...]

Research Updates»

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

Community Vitality Project team members present two papers at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, held October 1-4, 2009 in Crystal City, Virginia.  This year’s topic is “Reinvesting in America: The New Metropolitan Planning Agenda.”
Colleen Chrisinger presents a paper by herself, Chris Fowler, and Rachel Garshick Kleit entitled “Identification [...]

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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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