Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 31, No.2 (Oct-Dec 2022) By Reggie Jackson and Bo McMillan The Redress Movement is an emerging racial justice organization that aims to organize racially and ethnically diverse local movements in communities throughout the U.S. We help residents to build and wield collective power needed … [Read more...] about How Social Capital Research Can Help Redress Segregation (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Examining Economic Connectedness Through the Lens of Intergroup Contact Theory and Research (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 31, No.2 (Oct-Dec 2022) Linda R. Tropp and Mohammed Naeem As income and wealth gaps continue to grow, economic segregation in American society has become increasingly widespread (Horowitz, Igelnik, & Arditi, 2020; Reardon, & Bischoff, 2011) and opportunities for economic … [Read more...] about Examining Economic Connectedness Through the Lens of Intergroup Contact Theory and Research (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
The Chetty Team’s Social Capital Findings: A Timely Boost for Mixed-Income Development (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 31, No.2 (Oct-Dec 2022) Mark L. Joseph The compelling findings on the relationship between economic connectedness and upward mobility from Raj Chetty and his colleagues provide a much-needed shot in the arm and a guiding light for the ever-expanding field of mixed-income policy and … [Read more...] about The Chetty Team’s Social Capital Findings: A Timely Boost for Mixed-Income Development (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Social Capital and Economic Connectedness (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 31, No.2 (Oct-Dec 2022) john powell and Eloy Toppin This August, 2022, Raj Chetty and his team of researchers published exciting and promising new findings in the field of social capital and network ties. Specifically, Chetty et al. have demonstrated, through an extensive analysis … [Read more...] about Social Capital and Economic Connectedness (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
Reflections on social capital, integration, and upward mobility (Oct-Dec 2022 P& R Issue)
Link to the full Poverty & Race Journal issue. Introduction This past August, economist Raj Chetty and colleagues published two new papers in Nature, based on a massive dataset and accompanied by detailed maps on Opportunity Insights’ new Social Capital Atlas, that continue to build the economic case for integration – bringing children together within communities, … [Read more...] about Reflections on social capital, integration, and upward mobility (Oct-Dec 2022 P& R Issue)
