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Book Launch for “Coming of Age in the Other America”
April 8, 2016Hear Stefanie DeLuca introduce a powerful new book about upward mobility for disadvantaged youth, based on years of in-depth personal interviews with young people in Baltimore. Register...
ACTION Lab 7: New Orleans
April 4, 2016...
Denver’s Deeply Segregated Schools Fit a National Trend
April 4, 2016By Alan Gottlieb Colorado’s largest urban center suffers from the same segregation of students of color in high-poverty schools as cities across the country, a new analysis of federal data shows. The analysis by The Atlantic comes from an...
Book Release: 150 Years of ObamaCare
April 1, 2016Daniel E. Dawes has written a fascinating insider’s perspective on the formation, passage, and implementation of the Affordable Care Act. This is a must-read for anyone interested and concerned with healthcare issues impacting vulnerable,...
Innovations in Health Equity
March 28, 2016A new Grantmakers In Health (GIH) supplement on health equity innovations, just released in the latest issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Sponsored by the Aetna Foundation, the supplement lifts up new voices and shares ideas for...
Growing Up in a Bad Neighborhood Does More Harm Than We Thought
March 28, 2016By Justin Wolfers The neighborhood in which you grow up is a major determinant of your economic success as an adult. That’s been known for a while, but new research suggests that the effects may be much larger than social scientists previously...
Separate but equal? Wealthy county’s plan would concentrate low-income, Hispanic students
March 25, 2016The nation’s most segregated schools often are among the worst performing, experts say, in part because of the concentration of poverty and the myriad challenges that come with it. (Read...
Michigan Public Health Institute Releases 2015 Annual Report
March 23, 2016"2015 was another successful year for MPHI; we celebrated our 25th year and continued to uphold our legacy of excellence. We achieved strong financial performance, continued to successfully implement our strategy and laid a strong foundation for our...
NCHE’s Dr. Brian Smedley Testifies in Support of Senator Nathan-Pulliam’s Legislation, S.B. 869
March 21, 2016NCHE Executive Director Dr. Brian Smedley testified on March 9 at the request of Maryland State Senator Shirley Nathan-Pulliam in support of her legislation, S.B. 869, that would create a Commission on Reconciliation and Equity to "unearth the true...
Integration Nation Book Launch
March 17, 2016Save the date: book launch for Integration Nation! If you are in the DC area please come to our office to hear Susan Eaton introduce her new book about immigrant integration from The New Press, “Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and...