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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Concentrated poverty"”.
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Improving access to jobs via effective public transportation : a planning framwork for mobility in San Juan
… reach employment. Empirical results show that concentrated poverty severely reduces low-income workers' job accessibility by forcing them to compete more intensely with one another for a limited supply of employment. In addition, results from Boston show that some aspect of race contributes …
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Effectiveness of Community Development Organizations in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area
<p>Concentrated poverty has been a core issue in urban America for close to half of a century. The consequences of living in these neighborhoods are also dire. These "neighborhood effects" are defined as the effects of living in concentrated poverty over and above individual circumstances, which …
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The Family Process Model: Predicting Youth Behavior Problems in Mexican American, African American, and European American Families
… this study considered whether neighborhood concentrated poverty, immigrant concentration, and residential stability helped explain the association between income-to-needs ratio and maternal mental stress. These questions were answered using data from 2,025 participants in the Project in …
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Neighborhood Violence Perceptions and TANF Receipt
… TANF recipients often live in urban areas of concentrated poverty which have high levels of neighborhood violence. Chronic stress resulting from violence exposure can lead to neurobiological changes leading to poor health. Using a neighborhood lens, and the framework of cumulative adversity …
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Realities and perceptions : HOPE VI poverty deconcentration and implications for broader neighborhood revitalization
… low-income households out of an environment of concentrated poverty and replace distressed public housing with a development that includes a variety of incomes, where the number and density of households in poverty is decreased. This policy of "poverty deconcentration" is now accepted and …
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Stewarding planning with community schools
… metropolitan areas continues to leave youth in concentrated poverty. Only an un-“fragmented” planning can reintegrate neighborhoods, and thus schools. Planners should leverage community schools to facilitate an education element in comprehensive plans aimed at reintegrating communities at a …
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Health Promotion for the Community Advocate
… A guided case study illustrates the way that concentrated poverty contributes to the production of health disparities. Finally, I integrate obesity and chronic disease health promotion in impoverished communities through a guided case study of the use of the PRECEDE-PROCEED model for a …
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Investing in the Civic Economy: Social Capital and Choice Neighborhoods
Concentrated poverty in inner-city neighborhoods in the United States generates social disorganization and isolation, limiting residents’ access to opportunities for upward mobility. Place-based concentration effects can be detrimental to individual health outcomes and overall community health. …
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Let's be Honest, Resident Participation and Inclusion in Hamilton's Neighbourhood Action
… NA is an attempt to respond to levels of concentrated poverty in the identified neighbourhoods, and forms parts of evolving responses to social, economic and racial inequity in cities across North America. Focusing on the period of operation from 2013-2015, this study explores who …
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Three empirical essays on trade and development in India
… the causal impact of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in districts in India. Variation in pre-liberalization industrial composition across districts in India and the variation in the degree of liberalization across industries allow for a difference-in-difference approach, …
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Saving Salt City: Fighting Inequality Through Policy and Activism in Syracuse, NY, 1955-1975
… an in-depth exploration of civil rights and antipoverty struggles in the Salt City between 1955 and 1975. It centers the agency of activists who built interracial and cross-class organizations through which they contested the marginalization and segregation of Black Syracusans. By examining the …
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Investing in economic inclusion : leveraging the New Orleans BioDistrict to grow employment and human capital
… too often fail to benefit neighborhoods of concentrated poverty and improve economic prospects for those who face barriers to employment. This thesis considers tools and strategies that city governments can use to leverage investments in economic development to achieve economic inclusion. …
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Conversion Charter School Leaders' Perceptions of School Change: A Narrative Inquiry
… achievement. For students living in areas of concentrated poverty, achievement gaps and drop out rates remain unacceptably high. These gaps were brought into stark relief in the city of New Orleans following the devastating flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in August, 2005.</p> …
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Examining the Contextual Effects of Racial Profiling, and the Long-Term Consequences of Punitive Interventions: Testing Labeling Theory with the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health Data
… of arrest also increases with increased concentrated disadvantage (concentrated poverty, a high proportion of single-parent households, and a high proportion of residents without a high school diploma).</p> <p>Interventions in adolescence (being arrested or suspended/expelled from high …
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The practice and politics of care : social service organizations, community resilience and the redevelopment of Regent Park
… and today is one of the last areas of concentrated poverty in Toronto's rapidly gentrifying downtown core. A dense and remarkably active hub of non-profit organizations has developed in Regent Park since the 1970s. This thesis investigates the role that social service providers play in …
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School Leadership Practices, Student Socioeconomic Status, and Student Achievement in One Virginia School District
… and earnings, and neighborhoods affected by concentrated poverty. As the income gap has widened, so has the achievement gap between children in high- and low-income families (Reardon, 2011). The purpose of this study was to identify the perceptions of school leaders in one Virginia school …
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Mind Playing Tricks: Individualism, Upward Mobility, and the Commitment to Self-Determination Among the Urban Poor
… backwardness, and the harmful effects of concentrated poverty – the individualistic character of the American Dream poses an intriguing question: Does adherence to this ethos signify an assertive, “no excuses,” agency-affirming commitment to self-determination, or does it signify a …
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A Comparison of Chicago's Scattered Site and Aggregate Public Housing Residents' Psychological Self-Evaluations
… Recognizing the oppressive conditions of concentrated poverty, scattered site housing programs offer an appealing housing alternative to the density and concentration of past public housing developments for low-income families. Scattered site housing programs integrate low-income residents …
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