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7 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
After all, the whole economy could be harmed, because the people who receive retirement benefits spend nearly all of that money every month.Therefore, it is not just retirees who will be calling for action. [read post]
26 May 2016, 7:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
"Our research team figured out the factors that are most predictive of defendants' likelihood of missing court or being re-arrested, and in particular being re-arrested for a violent crime," he said. [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 12:19 pm
Current threats to shared governance, and to tenure and security of position (and therefore academic freedom) are not amenable to legal action. [read post]
21 Apr 2015, 7:20 am by Derek Black
A new report by the National Women's Law Center and the Poverty and Race Research Action Council, Finishing Last: Girls of Color and School Sports Opportunities, finds that Nationwide, 40 percent of heavily minority schools have large athletics gaps for female students, compared to only 16 percent of heavily white... [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 4:00 am by Barbara S. Mishkin
   Amicus briefs in support of HUD’s motion have been filed jointly by the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Consumer Law Center, and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition and jointly by the National Fair Housing Alliance, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the National Low Income Housing Coalition, the Poverty & Race Research Action… [read post]
9 Apr 2014, 7:37 pm by Ezra Rosser
 Overview below: The book is a compilation of the best and still-most-relevant articles published in Poverty & Race, the bimonthly of The Poverty & Race Research Action Council from 2006 to the present. [read post]
6 Jan 2014, 8:30 pm
., The most successful serious attempt to bridge this divide in recent years has centered on the work of John Ruggie, who as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General oversaw a long process leading to the creation of a set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights endorsed by the U. [read post]
26 Oct 2012, 8:17 am by Ken
This article at the Southern Poverty Law Center illustrates first his self-seriousness and immersion in revolutionary rhetoric: Best declined repeated interview requests from the Report, saying via E-mail that a productive conversation would not be possible unless the Southern Poverty Law Center (the Report’s publisher) gets its “moral bearings straight” and takes on the “academic-industrial complex” as “the true forces of hate. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 11:00 am by Lucas A. Ferrara, Esq.
  Young MSM of all races are heavily affected. [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 6:44 am by Lovechilde
Time and research have, however, eaten away at the significance of Wilson's work. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 1:57 am by LindaMBeale
We gave those who surrounded us most of our supplies, but we knew their tragedies far exceeded any action we could take. [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 3:00 am by Guest Blogger
Both offer impressive reviews of social scientific research documenting the many benefits of cross-race/cross-class desegregation, indeed, for everyone, but particularly for poor, minority kids in the urban centers. [read post]
21 May 2010, 2:59 am
  On May 11, 2010, The Task Force on Childhood Obesity Taskforce released its action plan to tackle childhood obesity. [read post]
10 May 2010, 2:59 am
  We need to understand that increases in unemployment, poverty, and public dependency in rural areas are all symptoms of the continued extraction of economic wealth or capital from rural areas. [read post]
1 Feb 2010, 3:04 am by Omar Ha-Redeye
., Anyone who has read Walter Johnson’s searing account of the New Orleans slave markets can imagine that eating inside a slave market can have the chilling feeling of eating inside, say, a barracks at Dachau… Slavery’s physical landmarks and artifacts seem mostly invisible in th[e] realm of public history… There is something deeply odd about the absence of a major research and educational center about slavery in Washington, D.C., New Orleans, or elsewhere… [read post]
17 Jan 2010, 9:00 pm by Gideon
Craig Williams as they interview the founder of the Homeless Court Program and executive director of the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. [read post]
25 May 2009, 11:56 pm
Access to better information through funding of comparative effectiveness research can also help bend the cost curve by supporting better decision-making by patients and physicians about diagnostic tests and treatment plans. [read post]