Urban Institute

Type: Organization

Name: Urban Institute

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

The Moynihan Report Fifty Years Later: Has Anything Changed?

The Urban Institute revisits Daniel Moynihan's The Negro Family: The Case For National Action and finds that a lot has changed. Mostly for the worse ... [Published Huffington Post - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Urban Institute, National Action

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

US Department of Labor

Marriage Keeps Kids Out of Poverty

In 1965, the U.S. Department of Labor produced a report arguing that "the decline of the black nuclear family would significantly impede blacks' progress toward economic and social equality." The document, known as the Moynihan Report, stirred heated ... [Published KPDQ-FM - 23 hours ago]

Entities: African-Americans, Urban Institute, Child Poverty, US Department of Labor

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Facebook Inc

Younger generations facing battles in job market, economy, growing wealth

action13, jeff ehlingMore: Bio, Blog, Facebook, Twitter, News TeamHOUSTON (KTRK) -- When it comes to financial independence, a quarter of all teenagers estimate they'll be 25 to 27 years old before they're completely independent from mom and dad. Wh ... [Published KTRK TV - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Houston (Texas, United States), Urban Institute, Net Worth, Twitter, Facebook Inc

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Charles Boustany

IRS scandal could alter rules

It has engulfed all of Washington in scandal, but the Internal Revenue Service-tea party targeting debacle might finally bring some clarity to rules governing nonprofit organizations.Democrats and Republicans remain far apart on how regulations should ... [Published Politico - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Eugene Steuerle, Charles Boustany, Carolyn Maloney

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 2 reports

Philip Tegeler: New Report Demonstrates Persistence of Housing Discrimination But Understates the True Extent of It

A major new study on housing discrimination released this week by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) shows persistent discrimination in sales and rental markets against Latinos, Asians and African Americans.Employing a "paired testing" ... [Published Huffington Post - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Persistence, African-Americans, Urban Institute

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

State Level Progress in Implementation of Federally Facilitated Exchanges: Findings in Three Case Study States

, Shanna Rifkin Read complete document: PDF Share: Document date: June 14, 2013Released online: June 14, 2013This paper focuses on states' roles in implementation of FFEs. We start by providing an overview of recent regulations issued by CCIIO that describes ... [Published Urban Institute - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Urban Institute, PDF, Mechanic

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 1 reports

How are States and Evaluators Measuring Medical Homeness in the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program?

Stacey McMorrow, Anna Christensen, Brenda Natzke, , Rebecca Peters Read complete document: PDF Share: Document date: June 14, 2013Released online: June 14, 2013Many Medicaid and CHIP programs and private health plans are pursuing medical home initiatives ... [Published Urban Institute - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Urban Institute, Demonstration, Rebecca Peters

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Canadian Urban Institute Releases Draft Position Paper

Today, almost 81 per cent of Canadians live in urban areas, contributing to a significant portion of national GDP. Attracting talent has become a challenge in recent years, as Canada faces an ever-growing municipal infrastructure deficit, estimated by ... [Published Renew Canada - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Urban Institute, Infrastructure, Canada, Federation of Canadian Municipalities

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 3 reports

HUD Housing Study Reveals Blacks, Minorities Still Face Discrimination

This week, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Urban Institute released data from a study, regarding housing and racial discrimination. The study suggests that African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians are less likely to ... [Published Chicago Defender - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Urban Institute, Hispanics, African-Americans, Shaun L S Donovan, US Department of Housing & Urban Development

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 2 reports

Documentation on the Urban Institute's American Community Survey Health Insurance Policy Simulation Model (ACS-HIPSM)

Matthew Buettgens, Dean Resnick, Victoria Lynch, Caitlin Carroll Read complete document: PDF Share: Document date: June 13, 2013Released online: June 13, 2013The model documented here builds off of the Urban Institute's base HIPSM, which uses the Current ... [Published Urban Institute - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Urban Institute, Health Insurance, Corroboration, PDF

First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 2 reports

The Nine-To-Five Keeps The Doctor Away?

Orszag warns that retirement can prove deadly:Researchers at the Institute of Economic Affairs in the U.K. have … recently identified “negative and substantial effects on health from retirement.” Their study found retirement to be associated with a ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - Jun 13 2013]

Entities: Diego Portales University, Institute of Economic Affairs, National Bureau of Economic Research, Urban Institute

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 4 reports

Some Aspects of Housing Discrimination Haven't Changed in 34 Years

The real story about racial discrimination in housing today, Shaun Donovan, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said, is the lack of any real differences across cities and regions. Donovan and and Margery Turner of the Urban ... [Published MortgageNewsDaily - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Shaun Donovan, Hispanics, Urban Institute

Quotes

...and local social-service providers, Safer Return helped officers feel more comfortable evaluating their charges' behavior on a case-by-case basis. "They would not automatically violate somebody [report them for violating conditions of parole] at the first relapse" Perry says...

Getting Out of Jail and Staying Out [Published National Journal - 16 mins ago]

...For example, and as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has noted , "expansions of Medicaid coverage for low-income pregnant women led to an 8.5 percent reduction in infant mortality and a 7.8 percent reduction in the incidence of low birth weight."

Emily Spitzer: The Real Math on Medicaid [Published Huffington Post - 16 hours ago]

...The new Urban Institute study gives a sobering perspective: "Over the past five decades, the statistics that so alarmed Moynihan in the 1960s have only grown worse, not only for blacks, but for whites and Hispanics as well." Things are bad, but they don’t have to stay that way: marriage, which is available to everyone, drops the probability of child poverty by 82 percent...

Marriage Keeps Kids Out of Poverty [Published KPDQ-FM - 23 hours ago]

"Even if they're bad jobs, get the jobs that get you the experience, so eventually I can get the jobs that get me the money" Marshall said

Younger generations facing battles in job market, economy, growing wealth [Published KTRK TV - Jun 18 2013]

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Housing Crisis: Widespread Discrimination; Litt... [Published Crooks and Liars - Jun 14 2013] By Nikole Hannah-Jones, ProPublica The results of Tuesday's U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development national study on the persistence of housing discrimination are unlikely to shock: Racial and ethnic minorities continue to find themselves ...
Housing Discrimination Hasn’t Gone Away, It’s J... [Published Think Progress - Jun 13 2013] Discrimination in the housing market persists in subtle forms, according to a study by the Urban Institute on behalf of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Using pairs of white and minority participants across 28 metropolitan ...
The Nine-To-Five Keeps The Doctor Away? [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Jun 13 2013] Orszag warns that retirement can prove deadly: Researchers at the Institute of Economic Affairs in the U.K. have … recently identified “negative and substantial effects on health from retirement.” Their study found retirement to be associated with ...
Are Public Pensions Keeping Up with the Times? [Published Brookings Latest From Brookings - Jun 12 2013] Retirement plans for public employees in the United States face serious challenges: By their own calculations, states and localities are $900 billion short of the funds they need to set aside to pay for benefits they have already promised their employees, ...
Here's What Happened When 8,000 Pairs Of Equall... [Published Clusterstock - Jun 11 2013] When the Department of Housing and Urban Development first began to systemically study housing discrimination in the United States in the 1970s, the most blatant forms of it were still common. Blacks were denied appointments to meet with real estate ...

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An Examination of the White House Budget [Published FOX Business - Video - Apr 05 2013]

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AARP Illinois' Memorial Day Message: Medicaid E... [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - May 27 2013]