Economic Studies
STEM Urgency: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education in an Increasingly Unequal and Competitive World
The technology sector in the United States continued to thrive during the Great Recession. The increasing need for high tech workers shielded the industry from the unemployment woes faced by…
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…
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…
Strengthening Social Security by Modernizing the System
Dr. Wilhelmina Leigh spoke on the whys and hows of social security modernization at the National Academy of Social Insurance’s 25th Annual Policy Research Conference on January 31, 2013. More…
Place Matters for Health in Baltimore: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All
The report, “Place Matters for Health in Baltimore: Ensuring Opportunities for Good Health for All,” finds that residents’ place of residence is an important indicator of their health and health…
Developing an Asset-Building Agenda – Lessons From the Field
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies collaborated with the Center on Race and Wealth at Howard University to host a discussion with asset-building coalition leaders from Illinois and…
Measuring Economic Mobility and Opportunity
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies collaborated with the Center on Race and Wealth at Howard University to host a discussion on how to develop and use indicators…
A Lost Decade: Neighborhood Poverty and the Urban Crisis of the 2000s
This report looks at trends in the share of African American, Hispanic, and white families in high-poverty neighborhoods since 1970. While there is a smaller share of Black, Hispanic, and…