3 page report: “How Poor and Unequal is Latin America and the Caribbean?”

Brief report: “How Poor and Unequal is Latin America and the Caribbean?” Inter-American Dialogue, Policy Brief 1, Nov. 2009.

Symposium from “Critical Race Theory at 20″ published

Iowa Law Review has published an issue of papers coming out of the “Critical Race Theory at 20″ conference that was held at Iowa.  The papers are below:

Celebrating Critical Race Theory at 20
Angela Onwuachi-Willig

Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory
Richard Delgado

The Re-Emergence of Race as a Biological Category: The Societal Implications—Reaffirmation of Race
Alex M. Johnson, Jr.

Post-Racialism
Sumi Cho

Jim Crow Ethics and the Defense of the Jena Six
Anthony V. Alfieri

Boston Globe Editorial: “Amid epidemic of foreclosures, a crying need for legal aid”

Editorial of interest: Editorial, “Amid epidemic of foreclosures, a crying need for legal aid,” Boston Globe, Nov. 3, 2009.

Grant Opportunity from Michigan’s National Poverty Center

Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Analytic Research Small Grants Competition

Application Deadline:  December 4, 2009

The National Poverty Center (NPC) at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan seeks proposals for innovative research projects that use data from the 2004 and/or 2008 SIPP Panels.  The NPC anticipates funding up to 8 proposals.  Awards will range from a maximum of $20,000 for research using SIPP public-use data and/or SIPP Synthetic Beta (SSB) data, to a maximum of $40,000 for research using SIPP Gold Standard restricted-use data and/or comparative analyses using SIPP Synthetic Beta (SSB) and SIPP Gold Standard restricted-use data.  Grants will begin February 1, 2010 and end January 31, 2011.  Funds for this competition are provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economics Statistics Division.

For details, please visit:  http://www.npc.umich.edu/opportunities/research_grants/sipp/index.php

Proposals will be considered that use earlier waves of SIPP data, but the project must use data from the 2004 and/or 2008 SIPP Panels, or from the SIPP Synthetic Beta (SSB) or SIPP Gold Standard restricted-use data.  Comparisons of estimates from various data sources and studies on the effects of program participation on low-income populations are also encouraged.  Possible research topics include, but are not limited to:

 

• Investigating spell length and transitions to and from use of government programs, such as TANF, Food Stamps, WIC, SSI, unemployment insurance, etc.;
• Analyzing the interaction of employment and unemployment with participation in government programs;
• Elucidating the various mechanisms accounting for relationships between family structure/changes and indicators of well-being broadly defined to include income, material hardships, health or mental health;
• Focusing on the well-being of both adults and children in analyses of the impact of family structure and change; disentangling the effects of income on family structure/transitions;
• Focusing on men’s or women’s work lives, family transitions, and well-being;
• Examining the transitions and/or spells in health insurance coverage and their relationship to other transitions.

Conference: “Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Public Education Policy: A Conversation Among Policymakers, Advocates and Educators” — Registration Deadline Nov. 6

Friday, Nov. 6, is the registration deadline for the conference “Reaffirming the Role of School Integration in K-12 Public Education Policy: A Conversation Among Policymakers, Advocates and Educators” that is being held at Howard University School of Law on Nov. 13.  The conference website with more information is here.

-Thanks to Kami Kruckenberg for the reminder!

Brookings article: “The Surbanization of American Poverty”

Elizabeth Kneebone, “The Surbanization of American Poverty,” Brookings Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, Oct. 19, 2009.

See also a more full report: Elizabeth Kneebone & Emily Garr, “The Landscape of Recession: Unemployment and Safety Net Services Across Urban and Suburban America,” Brookings, July 2009.

-Thanks to Eric Adams for the heads up!

Great Class Material: “How Different Groups Spend Their Day” – N.Y. Times

Definitely worth checking out!  Breaks down daily life by populations (employed, out of labor force, high school degree, advanced degree, women/men, black/white/hispanic, number of children).  New York Times multimedia: “How Different Groups Spend Their Day.“

Washington Post series: “Half a Tank: Along Recession Road”

Theresa Vargas and photographer Michael Williamson have a series of feature stories for the Washington Post, along with good photos, on how people are experiencing the recession.  The series, “Half a Tank: Along Recession Road,” can be found here.  A map based photo page can be found here.  This story in particular — and the photos — is great.

(In an earlier post I highlighted the N.Y. Times’ reader submitted photo series, my photo of my dad is under “Family”/Navajo Nation, “Living with Less.”)

GAO slides on the cost of law school and on diversity

An interesting GAO “report,” really a collection of slides, some quite good, on law school cost and diversity: GAO, Higher Education: Issues Related to Law School Cost and Access, Oct. 2009.

Paying teenage girls not to have babies – College Bound Sisters

(I missed this when it came out, but this is the story the media is going to focus on so CNN’s coverage today caught my attention.)  The media is reporting on a program to pay teen girls not to have babies.  The program, College Bound Sisters, is run out of UNC, pays participants $7 weekly towards a college fund and requires attendance at a weekly 1.5 hour meeting.  Inside Higher Ed reported on the program in July, Fox News Coverage can be found here, Washington Post coverage is here, etc.