Posted in Economic Security & Advancement, Health, Intergenerational Poverty, Policy on July 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, the Food Research and Action Center suggested a strategy for ending childhood hunger by 2015, a goal to which President Obama committed during his Presidential campaign. The strategy includes:
Restoring economic growth and creating jobs with better wages for lower-income workers
Raising the incomes of the lowest-income families
Strengthening the SNAP/Food Stamp Program
Strengthening the Child Nutrition [...]
Posted in Intergenerational Poverty, Poverty, Research & Data, tagged Brain Development, stress on April 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Economist reports on a new study linking stress to intergenerational poverty. Research conducted a few years ago demonstrated that the “working memories” of children in poverty had less capacity than those of middle income children. This in turn impeded the ability of children to learn, since they cannot store as much information in their RAM [...]
Posted in Innovation, Intergenerational Poverty, tagged epiphany on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So, I promise I haven’t fallen off the apple cart. Micah, your building capacity post really resonated with me. The reason for my blog absence the past two weeks has been a combination of fulfilling the requirements of my 80%ish time job as a member of the CAP’s development team and attending professional development conferences. [...]
Posted in Intergenerational Poverty, tagged Economic Mobilty Project on November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re mostly interested in intergenerational mobility around here, but that’s pretty well intwined with intragenerational mobility. I mean, when we talk about intergenerational mobility what we mean is that we want children whose parents are poor to grow up not to be poor themselves. In other words we want someone to move from poor to [...]
Posted in Intergenerational Poverty, Research & Data on October 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Tulsa World is doing a series on a family here in Tulsa. The story chronicles the journey of a single mother by the name of Margo raising her two children who have the odds severely stacked against them. Her husband, their father, is in prison until 2047. Nothing has come easy for Margo and she is doing everything [...]
Posted in Horizontal and Vertical Grids, Intergenerational Poverty, tagged Harlem Children's Zone on September 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Ah, to live in D.C. & be able to attend events like the Brookings gig Diama writes about, below. (And yes, this could technically be a Comment, but then it’d be buried & relegated to the place where only Micah & Diama venture….) Since we’re NOT in D.C., we need to listen in [...]
Posted in Intergenerational Poverty, Research & Data, tagged Economic Mobilty Project, Heritage, Intergenerational Poverty, Mobility, research on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I’m not going to have time for a post on the whole report (pdf) today, but I’ve gotten through the first section and thought I would share some thoughts. The report, from Economic Mobility Project, is authored by researchers at the Heritage Foundation, which tends to emphasize the social and family impacts on economic [...]
Posted in Innovation, Intergenerational Poverty, Research & Data, tagged Innovation, Intergenerational Poverty, Mobility, research on September 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I hope to have time today to comment on a new report out from the Economic Mobility Project (a consortium organized by Pew of thinkers from Brookings, the Urban Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the American Enterprise Institute – strange bedfellows indeed!). The report is titled “Pathways to Economic Mobility: Key Indicators” and here’s a [...]
