By Sheryll Cashin (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Richard Kahlenberg is correct in asserting that the unfinished business of the civil rights movement is housing. His call for an Economic Fair Housing Act is useful and important. In selling this idea, however, he may create a misleading impression. Economic segregation is growing, with awful consequences for … [Read more...] about “Cashin: A Reply to Kahlenberg” by Sheryll Cashin (July-September 2017 P&R Issue)
Poverty
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
“Schools Count” by Dianne M. Piché and Tamar Ruth (September-Ocober P&R Issue)
By Dianne M. Piché and Tamar Ruth (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) In Class and Schools, Richard Rothstein suggests that school reform will not produce results unless and until the entire liberal social and economic agenda is fully enacted. He has summarized a one-sided collection of unsurprising and not very new studies about the impact of poverty, … [Read more...] about “Schools Count” by Dianne M. Piché and Tamar Ruth (September-Ocober P&R Issue)
Race, Poverty, and American Cities,
Race, Poverty, and American Cities, Precise connections between race, poverty and the condition of America's cities are drawn In this collection of seventeen essays. Policymakers and scholars from a variety of disciplines analyze the plight of the urban poor since the riots of the 1960s and the resulting 1968 Kerner Commission Report on the status of African Americans. In … [Read more...] about Race, Poverty, and American Cities,
