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Asset Building in Low-Income Communities of Color, Part 1 sfdsdf

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Asset Building in Low-Income Communities of Color, Part 1
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Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Ph.D.
Lauren M. Ross
Anna L. Wheatley
Danielle Huff
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March 1, 2009
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This report by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies presents findings from the first year of an initiative to assess what works to enable low-income communities of color build assets. The executive summary highlights predisposing factors and promising practices in ten states, highly rated in the 2007-2008 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard for asset building among low-income people. The featured states include: Delaware, Hawai'i, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin. A companion report Asset Building in Low-Income Communities of Color, Part 2: State Comparisons (Executive Summary) analyzes similar factors and practices in another set of states with large percentages of people of color (Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota, and Texas).

Also, see the Fact Sheet "Confronting and Closing the Wealth Gap".

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DELLUMS Report: Young Men of Color in Media: Images and Impacts sfdsdf

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DELLUMS Report: Young Men of Color in Media: Images and Impacts
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Robert Entman
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November 1, 2006
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Although a few highly visible African Americans have reached positions of high status, income, and power in the United States, most blacks still live separately from whites, and significantly lag behind whites in terms of income, housing, health, and education.1 Other non-white groups, including Latinos, Asians, and Native Americans, also rank lower than whites on many measures of living conditions and opportunities, and tend to live in ethnic enclaves. Of all those not classified as members of the dominant white group, young men of color (YMC) are particular objects of stereotyping, fear, anger, misunderstanding, and rejection. Indeed, public attitudes and emotions restrict their lives and keep them from enjoying the full range of opportunities and benefits of American society.

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DELLUMS Report: State Public Education and Life Pathways for Boys and Young Men of Color sfdsdf

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DELLUMS Report: State Public Education and Life Pathways for Boys and Young Men of Color
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Kay Randolph-Back
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November 1, 2006
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This background paper focuses on the barriers that are limiting the educational and life paths of boys and young men of color. Specifically, the paper creates an action agenda centered on nine topics within education policy: high-stakes testing, school finance, literacy, recruitment of representative teachers, teacher preparation, school choice, single-sex classrooms/schools, structure of school day/year, and zero-tolerance policies.

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DELLUMS Report: A New Generation of Native Sons: Men of Color and the Prison-Industrial Complex sfdsdf

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DELLUMS Report: A New Generation of Native Sons: Men of Color and the Prison-Industrial Complex
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Adolphus G. Belk
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November 1, 2006
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This paper evaluates the impact of the prison-industrial complex on males from communities of color. In particular, it asks the following questions: What is the impact of the large increases in the proportion of state and local public funds dedicated to corrections? To what extent has the private corrections industry influenced and driven national, state, and local policy regarding criminal justice policy and programs?

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DELLUMS Report: Men & Communities: African American Males and the Well-Being of Children, Families, and Neighborhoods sfdsdf

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DELLUMS Report: Men & Communities: African American Males and the Well-Being of Children, Families, and Neighborhoods
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James B. Hyman
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November 1, 2006
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This report focuses on well-being outcomes in urban, poor, and minority communities, particularly African American communities. Throughout this discussion, the analysis will be applied to black men. That said, much of the proposed framework can be applied to men in general, although admittedly, references to culture and race will need to be modified to consider the identity and experience of other groups of men in the context of their community identities, histories, and cultures.

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DELLUMS Report: Meeting the Health Needs of Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System sfdsdf

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DELLUMS Report: Meeting the Health Needs of Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System
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Karen Clark
Shelly Gehshan
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May 1, 2007
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This paper examines emerging strategies and models for effective treatment and support for young people in the juvenile justice system. It clarifies Medicaid regulations that affect states’ ability to deliver vital health services in a timely manner as young people enter and leave the juvenile justice system. And it offers guidance to state legislators, mental health and juvenile justice professionals, as well as others who are working to provide the wide range of health services needed by young people in the juvenile justice system.

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DELLUMS Report: The Impact of Waivers to Adult Court, Alternative Sentencing, and Alternatives to Incarceration on Young Men of Color sfdsdf

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DELLUMS Report: The Impact of Waivers to Adult Court, Alternative Sentencing, and Alternatives to Incarceration on Young Men of Color
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Michael L. Lindsey
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November 1, 2006
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This background paper focuses on the impact of decisions to transfer young men of color from the juvenile justice system to adult criminal courts, as well as the impact that alternative sentences and alternatives to incarceration have on these youth. In addition to providing historical perspective and an overview of the relevant literature, the paper offers promising practices in alternative sentencing and alternatives to incarceration, and policy options to ensure proper interventions and assistance for young men of color.

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