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Immigrant Integration in Low-income Urban Neighborhoods: Improving Economic Prospects and Strengthening Connections for Vulnerable Families (Research Report)Author(s): Lynette A. Rawlings,
Randolph Capps,
Kerstin Gentsch,
Karina FortunyThe paper explores the financial well-being and economic integration of immigrant groups compared with native-born minorities and whites in vulnerable urban neighborhoods. Among the main findings from the analysis is that immigrants and native minorities in the neighborhoods we examine face similar types of economic difficulties. However, after controlling for citizenship, English proficiency, educational attainment, and having a driver’s license and a reliable car, many of the economic disadvantages disappear for immigrant groups, but not for native-born minorities. These findings suggest that even in tough neighborhoods, the potential for economic integration of immigrants is strong.
| Posted: November 27, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Are Children Accessing and Using Needed Mental Health Care Services? (Policy Briefs/Health Policy Briefs)Author(s): Louise Palmer,
Brigette Courtot,
Embry M. HowellThis brief presents data on mental health coverage benefits and enrollees' access to and use of mental health services through the Healthy Kids program in San Mateo County, California. The prevalence of mental health conditions among enrollees is similar to national levels, but despite the generous mental health benefits offered under the program, only a small fraction of enrollees with mental health conditions receive care. Reasons why more children do not use mental health services are explored. The brief also shows that enrollees with mental health needs have higher use of other health services compared to all Healthy Kids members.
| Posted: November 20, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Racial Disparities and the New Federalism (Discussion Papers)Author(s): Margery Austin Turner,
Marla McDanielThe paper explores how shifts in both social welfare policies and economic conditions beginning in the mid-1990s altered the relative well-being of blacks— compared to whites—between 1997 and 2002. It uses the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) to assess how the relative well-being of black families improved or disparities persisted. The findings suggest that some of the disparities between whites and blacks narrowed between 1997 and 2002, especially among people with low incomes. But gaps in income, child school outcomes, employment, assets, and welfare and other income supports, remained essentially unchanged over the period.
| Posted: October 25, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
The Labor Market and Young Black Men: Updating Moynihan's Perspective (Occasional Paper)Author(s): Harry HolzerIn this paper I review Daniel Patrick Moynihan's views on employment and young black men in his 1965 report. I then update the evidence on their employment status, and review the causes and policy implications of these trends. Moynihan was extremely prescient in forecasting a "crisis...that would only grow worse." He understood that these trends involve both limits on labor market opportunities that these young men face as well as skill deficits and behavioral responses by the young men themselves. Policies that deal with a wide range of disadvantages and behaviors are needed to reverse these trends.
| Posted: October 19, 2007 | Availability: HTML | PDF |
Busting the Myth that Poor, Urban Schools Can't Succeed (Press Release)Author(s): The Urban InstituteWith the first bell of the new school year about to ring, a new book from the Urban Institute Press spotlights how urban schools serving low-income minority students can shine.
| Posted: August 02, 2007 | Availability: HTML |
