News tagged with poverty neighborhoods

Childhood hunger policies should target neighborhoods, not families

Policies addressing childhood hunger should target neighborhoods, not individual families, according to new research from Rice University.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Examining motherly fears

Neighborhood poverty is likely to make a mother more fearful about letting her children play outdoors, according to a new study by sociologists at Rice University and Stanford University.

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created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study shows racial disparities in Twin Cities mortgage lending (Video)

A new report, "Communities in Crisis," issued by the University of Minnesota Institute on Race and Poverty shows that the Twin Cities has some of the nation's worst racial disparities in mortgage lending. In the Twin Cities, ...

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created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0