Economic Justice Content Topic Results
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January 2009
Intimate Partner Violence: High Costs to Households and Communities
Publisher(s):This three-country study in Bangladesh, Morocco, and Uganda estimated the economic costs of intimate partner violence at the household and community levels.
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January 2009
Child Development Accounts and Saving for Children's Future: Do Financial Incentives Matter?
Publisher(s):This study describes outcomes in the first large-scale CDA demonstration in the U. S. The research examines connections between savings outcomes and incentives in an asset-building program for children and highlights implications for CDA policy and design.
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December 2008
The Future of Fair Housing: Report of the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity
Publisher(s):This report presents a summary of recommendations from the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.
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December 2008
Individual Development Accounts: An Asset Building Tool
Publisher(s):This document provides a comprehensive overview of IDAs, including the what, why and how, as well as an outline of state-supported IDA programs and various policy options for states and communities.
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October 2008
Helping Young Children (Birth to Five) Who Are Homeless
This presentation outlines some of the challenges facing homeless children, and explains the McKinney-Vento Act and how it can help children. The document also has information about Early Childhood Special Education and Headstart.
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October 2008
A State by State Report on Children's Health: Family Income and Education More Important than Medical Care
Publisher(s):This article discusses a report released that reveals the degree to which a children's health is determined by the circumstances into which they are born.
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August 2008
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007
Publisher(s):This annual report covers income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the U.S. Each main section includes highlights and discussion by race/ethnicity, nativity, age, and region. State level data is provided.
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June 2008
Urban and Rural Children Experience Similar Rates of Low-Income and Poverty
Publisher(s):This study uses statistics to analyze the position of poor children in both urban and rural environments. The report takes into consideration type of job and ethnicity, as well as, location.
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April 2008
Women in the Wake of the Storm: Examining the Post-Katrina Realities of the Women of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Publisher(s):"This report shares findings garnered from a series of interviews held with a diverse group of women from throughout the Gulf region. In telling their stories, it provides an analysis of women's increased vulnerability during times of natural disasters and lays out policy recommendations that pinpoint how best to address those needs in the wake of this disaster, and in anticipation of the next."
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March 2008
"I am at the lowest end of all": Rural women living with HIV face human rights abuses in South Africa
Publisher(s):This report provides an analysis of patterns of human rights abuses against women who are exposed to the risk of or are already living with HIV in rural contexts of widespread poverty and unemployment.
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January 2008
A Brief Description of CRA
Publisher(s):This webpage defines the Community Reinvestment Act and describes the history of the regulations.
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January 2008
An Introduction to the Basic Concepts of Food Insecurity
Publisher(s):This brief document explains the concept of food insecurity: outlining its four dimensions (availability, access, utilization, and stability), explaining the two general types (chronic and transitory) based on duration, exploring the severity of the problem, and providing definitions of the related concepts of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.