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Related UI Researchers Publications on Race/Ethnicity/Gender | Viewing 1-5 of 273. Most recent posts listed first. | Next Page >> | Residential Segregation and Low-Income Working Families (Discussion Papers/Low Income Working Families)Historically, residential segregation constrained where minorities could live, contributing to disparities in education, employment, and wealth. Researchers interested in the well-being and future prospects of low-income working families have not yet explored how their residential patterns may vary across racial and ethnic lines or considered the implications of these patterns. Therefore, this paper explores differences in neighborhood characteristics among white, black, and Hispanic low-income working families. The findings suggest that policies aimed at reducing the persistent disadvantages facing minority low-income working families need to address the ways the neighborhoods in which minorities live may be compounding these disadvantages. Posted to Web: March 04, 2009 | Publication Date: February 01, 2009 | Los Angeles Healthy Kids Improves Access to Care and Health Status: Brief No. 26 (Policy Briefs/Health Policy Briefs)The Los Angeles Healthy Kids program provides health insurance to low income children in the county who have no other source of coverage (including undocumented children and children above the income limits for Medi-Cal and Healthy Families). These findings from a longitudinal survey of parents of young children in the program indicate that access to medical and dental care for enrolled children increased dramatically over time, use of the emergency room went down, and parents perceived improvements in the health status of their children. This analysis is one piece of a broader Urban Institute evaluation of the program. Posted to Web: February 18, 2009 | Publication Date: December 01, 2008 | Job Differences by Race and Ethnicity in the Low-Skill Job Market: Brief No. 4 (Policy Briefs/Employers in the Low-Skill Labor Market)This brief uses data from the 2007 Survey of Employers in the Low-Skill Labor Market to examine differences in the noncollege jobs held by workers of different races and ethnicities and the impact of these differences on wage rates. Posted to Web: February 17, 2009 | Publication Date: February 01, 2009 | A Guide to Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data (Research Report)The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) requires most lending institutions to report on home mortgage loan applications, including the application outcome, loan- and applicant-related information, and property location. Annual data collected through HMDA provide a unique set of files with information at the neighborhood level. This guide describes the HMDA original source data and the HMDA indicators available on DataPlace. The guide also illustrates how HMDA indicators can be used to shed light on such issues as neighborhood investment trends, changes in the racial and economic composition of home buyers, disparities in home loan access, and subprime lending. Posted to Web: February 03, 2009 | Publication Date: December 01, 2008 | Can Public Housing Overcome Its History of Racial Discrimination and Segregation? (Audio / Video Files)The Urban Institute Press invites you to a panel discussion about a new book -- Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation -- that explores the aftermath of racial discrimination and segregation and its implications for poor families and their children. Can public housing policies simultaneously address the problems of poverty and race? If so, how?
Posted to Web: January 29, 2009 | Publication Date: January 29, 2009 |
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