Marriage Equality and the Supreme Court
Center for American Progress. June 10, 2013. The Supreme Court has consistently and repeatedly affirmed that marriage is a fundamental right without which “neither liberty nor justice would exist.” At...
View ArticleHousing Discrimination against Racial and Ethnic Minorities 2012
Urban Institute. June 11, 2013. The Department of Housing and Urban Development, in partnership with the Urban Institute, has released its 2012 Housing Discrimination Study: Housing Discrimination...
View ArticleThe Moynihan Report Revisited
Urban Institute. June 2013. In 1965′s The Negro Family: The Case for National Actions, Daniel Patrick Moynihan described a “tangle of pathologies” –from disintegrating families to poor educational...
View ArticleHealth Care for Immigrant Families: Current Policies and Issues
Migration Policy Institute. June 2013. Low-income immigrant children are less likely than their US-born counterparts to see a doctor — even when they are insured. Similarly, immigrant adults are less...
View ArticleAsians Fastest-Growing Race or Ethnic Group in 2012
U.S. Census Bureau. June 13, 2013. The U.S. Census Bureau announced Asians were the nation’s fastest-growing race or ethnic group in 2012. Their population rose by 530,000, or 2.9 percent, in the...
View ArticleIndicators of School Crime and Safety: 2012
National Center of Educational Statistiscs. June 26, 2013. A joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics, this annual report examines crime occurring...
View ArticleAccounting for the ethnic unemployment gap in France and the US
Centre for Economic Policy Research. July 23, 2013. The unemployment rate in France is roughly six percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the US, the unemployment rate is...
View ArticleRace, Justifiable Homicide, and Stand Your Ground Laws Analysis of FBI...
Urban Institute. July 26, 2013. This study finds that homicides with a white perpetrator and a black victim are ten times more likely to be ruled justified than cases with a black perpetrator and a...
View ArticleCounting Homeless Youth
Urban Institute. July 30, 2013. Knowing how many youth are homeless is a critical first step in helping them, but it’s not easy to count a hidden population. Nine communities across the United States...
View ArticleYouth Count! Process Study
Urban Institute. July 30, 2013. Homelessness among unaccompanied youth is a hidden problem: the number of young people who experience homelessness each year is largely unknown. To improve the national...
View ArticleWhat New Immigrants Could Mean for American Wages
Brookings Institution. August 2, 2013. Immigration remains one of the most important labor-market issues facing federal policymakers. It has also been an area of focus for The Hamilton Project, which...
View ArticleLimited English Proficient Population of the United States
Migration Policy Institute. July 2013. In 2011, there were 25.3 million Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals, both foreign-born and US-born, residing in the United States. Over the past 20...
View ArticleA Rising Share of Young Adults Live in Their Parents’ Home
Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends. August 1, 2013. In 2012, 36% of the nation’s young adults ages 18 to 31–the so-called Millennial generation–were living in their parents’ home, according...
View ArticleKing’s Dream Remains an Elusive Goal; Many Americans See Racial Disparities
Pew Research Social & Demographic Trends. August 22, 2013. Five decades after Martin Luther King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., a new survey by the Pew Research Center...
View ArticleTechnology, Teen Dating Violence and Abuse, and Bullying
Urban Institute. September 6, 2013. The study explores the role of technology in teen dating violence and abuse and teen bullying. The researchers surveyed 5,647 youth-more than any previous...
View ArticlePoverty in the United States
Urban Institute. September 17, 2013. Poverty rates were largely unchanged in 2012, remaining at high levels since the Great Recession, though unemployment rates have fallen. Child poverty rates have...
View ArticleAffordable Care Act (ACA) and the Appropriations Process: FAQs Regarding...
Congressional Research Service. September 27, 2013. Congress has yet to complete legislative action on any of the 12 regular appropriations bills to fund the routine operations of federal agencies for...
View ArticleA Brief Look at the Early Implementation of Choice Neighborhoods
The Urban Institute. October 2013. The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative, a signature program in the Obama Administration’s Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative, aims to redevelop distressed assisted...
View ArticleThe State of Women of Color in the United States
Center for American Progress. October 24, 2013. While women have continued to organize for collective gains into the 21st century, the benefits of those achievements have not been equally shared. Over...
View ArticleNaturalization Trends in the United States
Migration Policy Institute. October 24, 2013. In 2012, there were about 757,000 naturalizations in the United States, out of a total immigrant population of 40.8 million. Over the past decade, the...
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