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City Government's Role in the Community ... - Urban Institute
www.urban.orgMassachusetts Institute of Technology The Urban Institute Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center 2100 M Street, NW Washington, DC 20037 The nonpartisan Urban Institute publishes studies, reports, and books on timely topics worthy of public consideration. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to
A Typology of Payment Methods - Urban Institute
www.urban.orgA Typology of Payment Methods Robert A. Berenson Divvy K. Upadhyay Suzanne F. Delbanco Roslyn Murray URBAN INSTITUTE URBAN INSTITUTE CATALYST FOR ... Pennsylvania Employees Benefit Trust Fund; Joseph J. Fifer, president and chief executive officer, Healthcare Financial Management Association; Robert Galvin, chief executive officer, Equity ...
The Negative Effects of Instability on ... - Urban Institute
www.urban.orgThe nonpartisan Urban Institute publishes studies, reports, and books on timely topics worthy of public consideration. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or its funders.
Characteristics of Low-Income Families
npc.umich.eduThe Urban Institute 2100 M Street NW Washington, DC 20037 September 28, 2006 Gregory Acs is a principal research associate at the Urban Institute and a research affiliate with the National Poverty Center. Austin Nichols is a research associate at the Urban Institute. Dr. Acs can be contacted via phone at (202) 261-5522 and via email at
Demographia World Urban Areas
www.demographia.comareas.1 Urban footprint data is reported without regard to political boundaries that are generally associated with metropolitan areas or sub-national jurisdictions. A useful definition was supplied by Alex Blei, of the NYU (New York University) Stern Marron Institute Urban Expansion Project,who described urban areas as
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Housing ... - Urban …
www.urban.orgtrustees and employees of the Urban Institute. Congressional Testimony of Margery Austin Turner, Director, Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center, The Urban Institute, prepared for the Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, United States House of Representatives, June 17, 2003.
Release Planning for Successful Reentry - Urban Institute
www.urban.orgJustice Policy Center. URBAN INSTITUTE Justice Policy Center 2100 M Street NW Washington, DC 20037 ... Director of Programs and Services Office of the Secretary Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services Blaire Jones ... Minnesota Department of Corrections iv.
Consequences of the Lack of Health Insurance on Health and ...
www.urban.orgfunded by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Dr. Hadley acknowledges Matt Cravens for his excellent research assistance in the preparation of Report 1 for the Cover Missouri Project. About The Urban Institute The Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and …
The Impact of Teacher Experience - Urban Institute
www.urban.orgURBAN INSTITUTE The Impact of Teacher Experience Examining the Evidence and Policy Implications Jennifer King Rice BRIEF 11 AUGUST 2010 The impact of experience is strongest during the first few years of teaching; after that, marginal returns diminish.
How Do People in High-Crime, Low-Income ... - Urban Institute
www.urban.orgEstablished through a cooperative agreement from the US Department of Justice in 2014, the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice (National Initiative) is a six-city effort to pilot ways ... School, and the Urban Institute, the National Initiative brings together practitioners and researchers
Building Successful Neighborhoods - Urban Institute
www.urban.orgThe U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has implemented important programs to transform neighborhoods in the past, most recently HOPE VI (Cisneros and Engdahl 2009). Lessons from HOPE VI and other programs have shaped HUDs newest initiative in this field, Choice Neighborhoods (PD&R 2011; HUD 2011). HOPE VI focused on the ...
RESEARCH REPORT The Sanders Single-Payer Health Care Plan
www.urban.orgThe nonprofit Urban Institute is dedicated to elevating the debate on social and economic policy. For nearly five decades, Urban scholars have conducted research and …
Helping Families in Choice Neighborhoods - Urban Institute
www.urban.orgAlexandra Derian February 2016 The primary goal of US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Choice Neighborhoods Initiative is to improve housing. Choice investments can also improve neighborhoods and provide services that support families living in target developments
Principles of Evidence-Based Policymaking - Urban Institute
www.urban.organecdotes, ideology, marketing, and inertia around the status quo . Evidence-based policymaking can take many forms: using research findings to inform new policies or improve effectiveness of existing programs, supporting data collection and analysis for research and management, developing policies that incentivize the use of evidence, and so on.
Employment after Prison: A Longitudinal Study of Releasees ...
www.urban.orgEmployment after Prison: A Longitudinal Study of Releasees in Three States URBAN INSTITUTE Justice Policy Center Research Brief October 2008 Christy Visher Sara Debus Jennifer Yahner KEY FINDINGS • Eight months after prison, 65 percent of respondents had been employed at some point, but only 45 percent were currently employed.
Prisoner Reentry in Massachusetts - Urban Institute
www.urban.orgfor the Massachusetts Department of Correction (DOC). In that and her former capacity as director of Research, she has been integrally involved in numerous reentry initiatives and many relevant publications. Included among those tasks was the design of a post-release survey created to
Implications of the Affordable Care Act for American Business
www.urban.orguses the Urban Institute’s Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model (HIPSM) to update estimates of the law’s effects on employer-sponsored health insurance
2021 Poverty Projections - Urban Institute
www.urban.org2 2021 POVERTY PROJECTIONS Overall, we project that 13.7 percent of people will have family income below the SPM threshold (table 1).4 The projected percentages of Black people in poverty (18.1 percent) and Hispanic people in poverty (21.9 percent) are about twice as high as for white people (9.6 percent).
The Psychological Impact of Incarceration - Urban Institute
www.urban.orglogical disorders or other forms of personal pa-thology, that psychotherapy should be the exclu-sive or even primary tool of prison rehabilitation, or that therapeutic interventions are the most important or effective ways to op-timize the transition from prison to home. I am well aware of the excesses that have been com-
PPreventingreventing VVandalismandalism - Urban Institute
www.urban.org• Plant low shrubs, vines, or thorny plants around signs or buildings to make access diffi cult • Restrict spray paint, wide tipped markers, and etching acid sales • Improve lighting • Install video surveillance in problematic locations • Increase incident reporting to police • Develop business or neighborhood watch program
THE URBAN INSTITUTE Fact Sheet
www.urban.orgFigure 4. Food and Housing Insecurity among High- and Moderate-Work, Low-Income Families and High-Work, Middle-Income Families 26.7 27.5 15.8* 39.9* 18.5* 39.5* 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 High Work Moderate Work High Work Percent Food Insecure Housing Insecure Source:2002 National Survey of America's Families.
Employment Barriers Facing Ex-Offenders - Urban Institute
www.urban.orgEmployment Barriers Facing Ex-Offenders H. Holzer, S. Raphael, and M. Stoll Substance abuse and other physical/mental health problems. For instance, about 70% of offenders and ex-offenders are high school dropouts (Travis et al., 2001; Freeman, 1992). According to at least one study, about half are “functionally illiterate” (Hirsch et al ...
Understanding the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry
www.urban.orgJANUARY 2006 URBAN INSTITUTE Justice Policy Center . ... and highlight prisoner reentry programs in the field. For example, as part of Outreach ... Washington, DC, 1998. 5 Langan and Levin, Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994. 6 Nancy G. La Vigne and Vera Kachnowski, ...
How Long Must State and Local Employees Work to …
www.urban.orgFigure 1. Illustrative Lifetime Pension Benefits and Employee Plan Contributions for State and Local Government Employees Source: Authors' calculations from the Urban Institute's State and Local Employee Pension Plan database. ... (National Center for Education Statistics 2014), while three-fifths of state government ...
Child Poverty and Adult Success - Urban Institute
www.urban.orgpoverty. Persistently poor children are 13 percent less likely to complete high school and 43 percent less likely to complete college than those who are poor but not persistently poor as children. 61.2 69.9 24.6 28.3 25.8 36.9 10.5 4.3 38.538.8 All children White children Black children Never poor Ever poor, not persistently poor Persistently poor
The Cost of ACA Repeal - Urban Institute
www.urban.orgState-level results are available in appendix A. Changes in Health Coverage Millions more would be uninsured. We estimate that 47.5 million nonelderly people were uninsured in 2013, representing 17.6 percent of the population (Table 1). Based on …
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