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Engaging Legislative Champions for IDA Authorization in Mississippi- October 2013
This presentation by Dr. Wilhelmina Leigh and Melissa Wells, originally shown at a meeting of Coalition for a Prosperous Mississippi partners, offers advice for engaging state leaders in discussion and…
PLACE MATTERS for Health in Jefferson County, Alabama: The Status of Health Equity on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama
Place matters for health in important ways, according to a growing body of research. Differences in neighborhood conditions powerfully predict who is healthy, who is sick, and who lives longer.…
Empowering the Black Community through Entrepreneurship: The Role for States
This presentation by Dr. Wilhelmina Leigh, originally shown at the 2013 Congressional Black Caucus Foundation conference, offers strategies for state legislators looking to increase entrepreneurship in their communities. Empowering the…
Confidence About Financial Security at Retirement: Perspectives of African Americans and White Americans
This presentation accompanies a study based on a Fall 2012 poll from the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies — Confidence About Financial Security at Retirement. Perspectives of African…
Energy Efficiency Savings in Faith Institutions: A Pilot Project with the AME Church
This Joint Center report, Energy Efficiency Savings in Faith Institutions: A Pilot Project with the AME Church, documents a groundbreaking partnership with the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church to raise…
Solvency and Adequacy for the Social Security System: Perspectives of African Americans and white Americans
This 2012 poll conducted by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies finds that majorities of Black and white Americans hold the same views about proposals that would foster…
Creating Public Awareness Campaigns that Work
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Center on Race and Wealth at Howard University hosted a discussion about the secrets to designing and implementing public awareness…
The Deep South and Medicaid Expansion: The View from Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) expands Medicaid so that it can provide health insurance to a larger pool of low-income uninsured adults, including adults with no children and whose incomes…
Retirement Confidence in the Education Sector: Comparisons by Race
During the economic doldrums that have followed The Great Recession, employees in the education sector (administrators, staff, and teachers or faculty at both the K-12 level and the post-secondary level)…
Further to Go: Job Creation in African American Communities
This issue brief, one of a series on African American employment that the Joint Center will publish in the coming months, is also Part 1 of a larger Joint Center…