Reports
Joint Center Report: Engaging Communities in Reducing Gun Violence
Today, the Joint Center, the Urban Institute, and the Joyce Foundation released our report Engaging Communities in Reducing Gun Violence: A Road Map for Safer Communities. The conversation around gun violence…
Racial Diversity Among Top Senate Staff
Today, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released Racial Diversity Among Top Senate Staff. The report is critical to understanding diversity among top staff in the U.S. Senate, including…
50 Years of the Voting Rights Act
Today the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released50 Years of the Voting Rights Act: The State of Race in Politics.The report is critical to understanding the impact of…
Black Turnout & the 2014 Midterms
Today the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies released Black Turnout & the 2014 Midterms by Professors Andra Gillespie and Tyson King-Meadows, which examines the impact of black voters in…
Moving Upstream: Policy Strategies to Address Social, Economic, and Environmental Conditions that Shape Health Inequities
This policy brief identifies some of the policy strategies that are being studied and implemented in communities across the country. Prepared by Bryant Cameron Webb, a rising leader in medicine…
Engaging Legislative Champions for IDA Authorization in Mississippi- March 2014
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…
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…
Blacks and the 2012 Democratic National Convention
While the 2008 Democratic National Convention represented a historic occasion for African Americans and black politics when, for the first time, an African American was the Democratic Party’s nominee for…