Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data

G. Thomas Kingsley, Claudia J. Coulton, Kathryn L. Pettit

• Hardcover | Urban Institute Press
• Efforts to address the problems of distressed urban neighborhoods stretch back to the 1800s, but it wasn't until the early 1990s that the factors nece... Lees meer

Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation

Margery Austin Turner, Susan J Popkin, Lynette A Rawlings

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• For the past two decades the United States has been transforming distressed public housing communities, with three ambitious goals: replace distressed... Lees meer

Who Speaks for America's Children

Rachel Mosher-Williams, Carol J De Vita

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Because nonprofit and voluntary organizations are primary vehicles of citizen action and participation, they serve as important mechanisms to understa... Lees meer

Giving in Time

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Within the philanthropic sector, as never before, time is of the essence. That is, temporal considerations--questions of intergenerational ethics, of ... Lees meer

Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government

Robert H Nelson

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• From 1980 to 2000, half the new housing in the United States was built in a development project governed by a neighborhood association. More than 50 m... Lees meer

Growing Up Hispanic

Nancy S Landale, Susan McHale, Alan Booth

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Hispanics are the largest immigrant group in the United States and the largest ethnic minority group in the nation. One in five children in the U.S. h... Lees meer

Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy

C Eugene Steuerle

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• C. Eugene Steuerle, one of the country's most influential economists, offers an insider's look at tax policy based on a quarter century of working wit... Lees meer

The Future of State Taxation

David Brunori

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• State tax systems have generally not changed dramatically over the last 50 years, yet they are facing profound challenges. Increased international tra... Lees meer

Educational Economics

Marguerite Roza

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go? examines education finance from the school's vantage point, explaining how the varied funding streams... Lees meer

Tax Justice

Joseph J Thorndike, Dennis J Ventry

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Perhaps the most important quality of a tax system is that citizens consider it fair. Yet agreement on what a just tax would look like is one of the m... Lees meer

Social Security and the Family

Frank Sammartino, C Eugene Steuerle, Melissa M Favreault

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• As the baby boom generation gets closer to retirement, the debate over Social Security reform becomes more urgent. Unfortunately, policymakers remain ... Lees meer

Health Policy and the Uninsured

Catherine McLaughlin

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• The United States is unique in the industrialized world in the number of people without health insurance. In 2002, nearly 44 million Americans did not... Lees meer

No Simple Solutions

Susan J Popkin

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• This book tells the story of how an ambitious--and risky--social experiment affected the lives of the people it was ultimately intended to benefit: th... Lees meer

Giving in Time

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Within the philanthropic sector, as never before, time is of the essence. That is, temporal considerations--questions of intergenerational ethics, of ... Lees meer

State Tax Policy

David Brunori

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• State Tax Policy is the only book that provides students and professionals with a concise, approachable, and up-to-date introduction to the intricacie... Lees meer

Older and Wiser

Lawrence H Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• The author explores the critical economic issues underlying national pension systems, including the impact of pensions on a nation's economy, the fisc... Lees meer

Child Welfare

Timothy Ross

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• When youth in the child welfare system face problems such as juvenile delinquency, the agencies charged with their care often find that they do not ha... Lees meer

Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform

Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• In this revised edition of their concise, readable, yet wide-ranging book, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox tackle a question students and scholars of law, ... Lees meer

Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform

Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• In this revised edition of their concise, readable, yet wide-ranging book, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox tackle a question students and scholars of law, ... Lees meer

The Nonprofit Almanac

Brice S McKeever, Nathan E Dietz, Saunji D Fyffe

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• The Nonprofit Almanac, Ninth Edition is an invaluable reference for managers of nonprofit organizations, foundations, and corporate social responsibil... Lees meer

Saving America's High Schools

Kathryn M Borman, Becky Smerdon

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Our educational system is in a continuous state of reform, yet outcomes are nowhere near what we can accept. Though the search for answers is perpetua... Lees meer

Adolescent Pregnancy in an Urban Environment

Janet B Hardy, Laurie Schwab Zabin

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• An interdisciplinary group of clinicians and researchers involved with adolescent pregnancy and prevention programs at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in B... Lees meer

The Nonprofit Almanac 2012

Katie Roeger

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• The Nonprofit Almanac 2012 features the most recent data on the philanthropic sector, presented in more than 50 charts and 100 tables. Topics include ... Lees meer

Good Schools Poor Neighborhoods

Beatriz Chu Clewell, Patricia B Campbell, Lesley Perlman

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Good Schools in Poor Neighborhoods contrasts highly effective schools serving urban, low-income, minority youth with their more typical, struggling co... Lees meer