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Month: October 2015

Income & School Quality: Poor Kids Losing Out

October 29, 2015  Qian Zhang
  • Education

Upward mobility and education are inextricably linked. Education is one of the few vehicles poor kids have to improve their circumstances in life. But research from our NYC Equality Indicators study finds kids living in bottom 20% median income Census…

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LGBT Youth: Family Acceptance Key To Avoiding Interactions With Criminal Justice System

October 27, 2015  Margaret Michaels
  • Health
  • Housing
  • Justice

Watching football over the weekend, I was surprised to see Cadillac using openly-gay designer, Jason Wu, as the focus of their “Dare Greatly” campaign. But I was pleased. LGBT youth face so many challenges, it is a success story that…

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Asian-American Political Participation: The Paradox of The “Model Minority”

October 22, 2015  Qian Zhang
  • Justice

Asian-Americans are typically perceived by the general public as a “model minority.” Based on the Equality Indicators data, in NYC the median household income of Asians ($37,000) exceeds that of Hispanics ($34,000) and blacks ($35,000), but falls behind whites ($56,200). In…

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Why Are Girls’ Arrest Rates Declining Less Than Boys’?

October 20, 2015  Shawnda Chapman Brown
  • Justice

Nationally we are witnessing a promising trend of declining arrest rates for youth.  However, from 1996-2011 girls’ arrest rates declined less than boys’ (42% versus 57%).  Why? A new report from The National Crittenton Foundation on “Gender Injustice” sheds light…

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A New Way of Looking At Inequality in NYC

October 15, 2015  Michael Jacobson
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I have called NYC home for over 60 years.  Living and working as a government official and City University of New York (CUNY) Sociology Professor in it, I never fail to find something new, remarkable, or strange about it every…

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Corporate America Not On A Path To Gender Equality

October 13, 2015  Margaret Michaels
  • Economy

No surprises for me in a recently released report from McKinsey and Lean In on gender parity in corporate America.  According to the report, women are underrepresented at every level of the corporate hierarchy. Disparity is greatest in senior leadership;…

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