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Four new studies on race and poverty trends
Several recent studies on poverty and inequality, using a five-year data from the American Community Survey, help to provide context to the 2010 poverty data released this month. Taken together, these studies illustrate the persistent disproportionate racial impact of poverty in America, rising numbers of African American and Latino families living in high poverty … [Read more...] about Four new studies on race and poverty trends
Canaries in the coal mine: Census data show long-term financial distress among people of color
The U.S. Census Bureau data released on Tuesday paint a grim picture of growing economic turmoil in American households over the last several years since the beginning of the Great Recession. Although experts tell us the recession officially ended back in 2009, the number of people living in poverty in the United States in 2010—46.2 million —is the largest number in the 52 … [Read more...] about Canaries in the coal mine: Census data show long-term financial distress among people of color
Civil Rights and “Compliance Harmonization” (PRRAC et al, August 2011)
“Local People as Law Shapers: Lessons from Atlanta’s Civil Rights Movement” by Tomiko Brown-Nagin (May-June 2011 P&R Issue)
By Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Many of those who profess to want change “don’t care nothing about poor people…If they had poor people at heart, they could make it better.” Ethel Mae Mathews, president of the Atlanta chapter of the National Welfare Rights Organization, made this statement in 2000, after decades of community-based … [Read more...] about “Local People as Law Shapers: Lessons from Atlanta’s Civil Rights Movement” by Tomiko Brown-Nagin (May-June 2011 P&R Issue)
