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Another excellent piece on Spotlight on Poverty comes from Bob Giloth and Maureen Conway. They present the challenges to job training progams in this economy: where will programs find jobs for their trainees? One of the ways to address this challenge...
The latest unemployment figures were encouraging, until you disaggreated by race. The overall rate may have dropped to 10% but for Blacks unemployment stands at 15.6% and for Latinos it is 12.6%. With one newspaper reporting that "Latinos and...
An interesting piece in the Texas Tribune noting a sudden increase in foster care placements for the month of September. In that month 1500 children were removed from their homes, as compared to the highest single month of removal previously that...
SAFETY, PERMANENCE, AND WELL-BEING: 12 YEARS OF THE ADOPTION AND SAFE FAMILIES ACT
Monday, December 14, 2009; 9:00-10:45 a.m. ET
Panelists: Olivia Golden, Institute fellow, Urban Institute, and author, Reforming Child Welfare
John Mattingly,...
Results Based Public Policy: Using Results to Develop Public Policy, In Good Economic Times and Bad
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