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Cities Developing Worker Co-ops: Efforts in Ten Cities
AUTHOR: Michelle Camou
YEAR: 2016
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In recent years, city governments have begun to help develop worker cooperative businesses in their local economies, a deliberate action to make ec
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The Walk-Up Wake Up Call: Boston
AUTHOR: By Christopher B. Leinberger & Patrick Lynch, The…
YEAR: 2016
DESCRIPTION:
Report outlines the characteristics of different types of walkable neighborhoods in the Greater Boston area and makes the case for improving walkab
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Gentrification and Displacement: An Agenda for Addressing Gentrification and Addressing Displacement
AUTHOR: Gentrification Learning Community
YEAR: 2016
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This report outlines the strategies and solutions to the problems created by gentrification in the Greater Boston area as determined by The Gentrif
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Incarceration Trends in Massachusetts: Long Term Increases, Recent Progress
AUTHOR: Jeff Bernstein, MassBudget
YEAR: 2016
DESCRIPTION:
Report reviews trends in incarceration rates, noting that while there are three times more people are in prison today than in 1980, recent reforms
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From Youth Organizers to Social Justice Activists? Experiences of Youth Organizers Transitioning to Adulthood
AUTHOR: The Boston Youth Justice Research Project at The…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report explores the adult outcomes of youth community organizing alumni in Boston.
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Race to Equity: The State of Black Massachusetts
AUTHOR: Nicole Rodriguez, Colin Jones, and Nancy Wagman,…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report presents a snapshot of how Black communities and other communities of color are doing in terms of education, economic opportunity and health
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The New Now: Working Together for Social Change
AUTHOR: Building Movement Project
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report highlights case studies of how LGBT movements have become intersectional and expanded to advocate for other issues like immigration, police
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Promoting Opportunity through Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (eTOD): Barriers to Success and Best Practices for Implementation
AUTHOR: Enterprise: John K. Hersey, Program Officer, Transit-…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report covers the barriers to equitable transit oriented development as well as case studies of successful collaborative efforts to achieve more eq
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Compounding Stress: The Timing and Duration Effects of Homelessness on Children's Health
AUTHOR: Center for Housing Policy and Children's Health…
YEAR: 2015
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Report summarizes research showing how the stress of homelessness during both pregnancy and early childhood can lead to stress related chronic dise
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Embracing Equity in Community Health Improvement
AUTHOR: Health Resources in Action, Laurie Stillman, MM, and…
YEAR: 2015
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Report provides an equity framework for community organizations and health organizations working on community health improvement.
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Out of Reach 2015: Low Wages and High Rents Lock Renters Out
AUTHOR: National Low Income Housing Coalition
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report compares rental housing prices with low-income wages across the United States.
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Scrimping + Saving: A report on financial access, attitudes and behaviors of low- and moderate-income Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
AUTHOR: National CAPACD
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report looks at financial capability and access of low-income Asian American communities in the United States
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#BlackWorkersMatter
AUTHOR: Discount Foundation and Neighborhood Funders Group…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
This six section report covers the history of black worker organizing, the black jobs crisis and recommendations to improve the economic prosperity
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Low-Income Working Families: Racial/Ethnic Divide
AUTHOR: The Working Poor Families Project
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report looks at the growing economic divide between America's major racial groups, showing that famillies headed by racial and ethnic minorities ar
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The Route to Growth: Capacity Investments Critical for Region's Future
AUTHOR: Transportation for Massachusetts
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Brief notes the importance of capacity building in the MBTA to ensure the long term economic growth of the region
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The State of Homelessness in America
AUTHOR: National Alliance to End Homelessness
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report details national and state trends in homelessness and in populations at-risk of homelessness in 2013 and 2014.
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Investing in Integration? A Fair Housing Review of the Multi-Billion Dollar Bank Settlements
AUTHOR: Poverty & Race Research Action Council
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
This policy brief examines the three recent multi-billion dollar settlements reached by the U.S. government with J.P.
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The Color of Wealth in Boston
AUTHOR: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report looks at wealth among Boston's racial and ethnic communities to show how wealth inequality disproportionately affects Boston's different sub
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What Shapes Health
AUTHOR: NPR, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Harvard T.H. Chan…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report covers Americans' beliefs, opinions and values around health
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When Discretion Means Denial: A National Perspective on Criminal Records Barriers to Federally Subsidized Housing
AUTHOR: Marie Claire Tran-Leung, Sargent Shriver National…
YEAR: 2015
DESCRIPTION:
Report explains HUD policies and property management practices that inhibit people with criminal records from accessing affordable housing
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Diversity, Inequality and Microsegregation: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in a Racially and Economically Diverse Community
AUTHOR: Laura M. Tach, Cornell University
YEAR: 2014
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Study uses data from Boston's South End to demonstrate that communities which seem externally diverse can still face segregation and discrimination
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Housing Programs Fail to Deliver on Neighborhood Programs, Reexamined
AUTHOR: Kirk McClure and Bonnie Johnson, University of Kansas…
YEAR: 2014
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Paper examines whether policy programs today do a better job of improving neighborhood quality than in 1997 when study was first done.
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Building Sustainable Communities: Initial Research Results
AUTHOR: Christopher Walker, LISC
YEAR: 2014
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Report from LISC shows that places where LISC invests, areas of comprehensive community development, are better places to live than similar communi
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Advancing Human Rights: A Status Report on Human Rights in the United States
AUTHOR: U.S. Human Rights Network
YEAR: 2014
DESCRIPTION:
This report provides an update on the status of human rights in the United States, from both policy and organizing standpoints
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