In 2003 alone, more than 656,000 state and federal prisoners returned to communities across the country, affecting public safety, public health, economic and community well-being, and family networks.
Although the immediate crisis has subsided, state and national officials, employers, and insurers must confront a wide array of difficult health care challenges in Katrina's aftermath.
What were the consequences of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath for the young children of New Orleans, particularly those who started out the furthest behind?
The conference papers collected here provide background on the circumstances of low-income working families with children and on current programs and policies affecting working families.
While great strides have been made to increase educational expectations, resources, and expenditures across New York state, these trends suggest several challenges for policymakers as they work to develop a fiscal and educational system that can support h
In recent years, "cluster strategies" have become a popular economic development approach among state and local policymakers and economic development practitioners.
Neither fully urban nor completely suburban, America's older, inner-ring, "first" suburbs have a unique set of challenges--such as concentrations of elderly and immigrant populations as well as outmoded housing and commercial buildings--very different fro
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