3/21/2012: Home Ownership's Wild Ride, 2001-2011
Emily Rosenbaum (Fordham University)
Not everyone benefited from the the housing boom 10 years ago, leading to steep declines when the Great Recession hit.
03/08/2012: A Very Uneven Road: U.S. Labor Markets in the Past 30 Years
Harry J. Holzer (Georgetown University, American Institutes for Research) and Marek Hlavac (Harvard University)
Of the four U.S. recessions that occurred since 1979, two were quite mild while the other two were quite severe – especially the Great Recession of 2008 and beyond. Very large increases in unemployment rates and durations have occurred in the recent downturn, and were experienced primarily by less-educated, younger and/or minority workers – who had already experienced relative declines in their earnings and employment over the past three decades.
11/16/2011: More Unequal and More Separate: Growth in the Residential Segregation of Families by Income, 1970-2009
Sean F. Reardon and Kendra Bischoff, Stanford University
The share of families who live in the poorest and most affluent neighborhoods of the nation's 117 largest metro areas has more than doubled since 1970. Over the same period, the percent of families living in middle-income neighborhoods dropped from 65 percent to 44 percent.
10/31/2011, Global Neighborhoods: New Evidence from Census 2010
John R. Logan, Brown University and Wenquan Zhang, Texas A&M
In the nation's 20 most multiethnic metropolitan areas, nearly 40 percent of the population now lives in global neighborhoods: up dramatically from less than 25 percent in 1980. But this progress is counterweighted: About half the black residents and 40 percent of Hispanics in these metros still live in all-minority neighborhoods.
10/18/2011: Unauthorized Immigrant Parents:Do Their Migration Histories Limit Their Children’s Education?
Mark A. Leach (Pennsylvania State University), Frank D. Bean (University of California, Irvine), Susan K. Brown (University of California, Irvine) and Jennifer Van Hook (Pennsylvania State University)
High school and college are less attainable for 3.8 million Mexican-American children who have unauthorized parent/parents. Whether the parents entered the U.S. illegally matters far less than whether they remained unauthorized.
08/02/2011: Separate and Unequal: The Neighborhood Gap for Blacks, Hispanics and Asians in Metropolitan America
John Logan (Brown University)
The average black or Hispanic household earning more than $75,000 lives in a poorer neighborhood than the average white resident earning less than $40,000.
07/25/2011: Whose Schools Are Failing?
John Logan (Brown University)
No Child Left Behind can't fix the performance disparities between schools attended by whites and Asians and those attended by blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans.
04/26/2011: An Uneven Road, Then a Cliff: U.S. Labor Markets, 2000-10
Harry J. Holzer and Marek Hlavac (Georgetown Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University)
Following the boom period of 1995-2000, most American workers either treaded water or lost ground on earnings from 2000 to 2007: many with disastrous consequences.
4/12/2011: How Changes in Employment, Earnings and Public Transfers Make the First Two Years of the Great Recession (2007-2009) Different from Previous Recessions and Why It Matters
Richard V. Burkhauser (Cornell University) and Jeff Larrimore (Joint Committee on Taxation
Two factors distinguish the median-income declines and inequality increases in the first two years of the Great Recession from earlier recessions: employment decline, not earnings decline, for women and especially men; and the offset of increased public transfers.
3/24/2011: The Persistence of Segregation in the Metropolis: New Findings from the 2010 Census
John R. Logan (Brown University) and Brian J. Stults (Florida State University)
Since 1980, black-white segregation has continued to reduce slowly, slowly, but the traditional Ghetto Belt cities of the Northeast and Midwest remain extraordinarily segregated. The growth of the Hispanic and Asian populations is creating larger, denser ethnic enclaves around the U.S.
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