This fact sheet provides information on the history of the Joint Center's Black Elected Officials (BEOs) Roster, its importance, and its transition to an electronic format.

This fact sheet explains the Health Policy Institute's PLACE MATTERS program, an initiative which seeks to improve the health of participating communities by addressing conditions in the natural environment, built environment, and social environment that lead to poor health.

This publication is available for download by clicking the link below.

This policy initiative responds to the research conducted by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in a two-part analysis, Asset Building in Low-Income Communities of Color, Part 1 and Asset Building in Low-Income Communities of Color, Part 2, that examined and compared a wide range of policy options in twenty target states, crafted to promote asset-building in low-income communities.

Consumers should have the ability to decide how much of their personal information is available on the Internet, as well as ample opportunities to understand the purpose for which it is used, according to members of an expert panel of industry, advocacy and government leaders at a Washington forum on Internet privacy.

The forum, entitled The New Digital Profile: Managing Privacy in an Evolving, Mobile Internet, was sponsored on Tuesday by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a leading Washington, D.C.-based think tank addressing the concerns of African Americans and other people of color.

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Recent efforts to sharply cut back funding and support for Medicaid go beyond Washington politics—they threaten the health of millions of Americans. For the past 45 years, Medicaid has been a largely successful program that delivers essential health services to a large segment of the population. Our country‟s most vulnerable citizens, including children, low-income parents, pregnant women, seniors and those with disabilities have all benefited from this social service jointly administered by federal and state governments, as well as the Children‟s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). By expanding coverage and access - as well as financial protection - to many Americans, Medicaid has proved itself to be an effective program that delivers substantial value to the nation at large by improving health outcomes among people who otherwise would not be able to afford basic and necessary health care.