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Rappaport Institute Policy Notes Database
Social Services, Poverty, Inequality
For more information on each entry, please click the title of each dataset.
| A Commonwealth Growing Apart: Family Income in Massachusetts |
| A Programmatic Audit of the Massachusetts Vitamin Litigation Project |
| A Public Health Approach to Reducing Morbidity and Mortality Among Homeless People in Boston |
| Accountability and Leadership at the School Level: Elementary Principals' Efforts to Improve Teaching and Learning |
| After Welfare Reform: A Snapshot of Low-Income Families in Boston |
| After Welfare Reform: Trends in Poverty and Emergency Service Use in Massachusetts |
| Age, Women, and Hiring: An Experimental Study |
| Asian Americans in Metro Boston: Growth, Diversity, and Complexity |
| Borrowing Trouble IV: High-Cost Mortgage Lending in Greater Boston, 2004 |
| Borrowing Trouble VII: Higher Cost Mortgage Lending in Boston, Greater Boston, and Massachusetts, 2005 |
| Boston in Focus: A Profile from Census 2000 |
| Bridges and Barriers to Housing for Chronically Homeless Street Dwellers :The Effects of Medical and Substance Abuse Services on Housing Attainment |
| Catholics and the ConCon: The Church's Response to the Massachusetts Gay Marriage Decision |
| Changing Women: An Ethnographic Study of Homeless Mothers and Popular Education |
| Characteristics of Homeless Families Accessing Massachusetts Emergency Shelters 1999-2001 |
| Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition |
| Community Corrections Programs at the Suffolk County House of Correction: Strategies for Optimizing Use while Minimizing Risk |
| Community Health Centers' Impact on the Political and Economic Environment |
| Designing the First Cambridge Status Report on Women and Girls |
| Enabling the Asian American Electorate: 2003 Voter Registration in Eleven Massachusetts Towns and Citites |
| Escaping from Crime of Inner Cities: Church Attendance and Religious Salience Among Disadvantaged Youth |
| Evidence-Based Practice in Community-Based Child Welfare Systems (Boston and Cleveland) |
| Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects on Youth |
| Finding Work in the City |
| Food Stamps: Available But Not Easily Accessible, A Study Conducted for Project Bread |
| Hard Numbers, Hard Times: Homeless Individuals in Massachusetts Emergency Shelters, 1999-2003 |
| Improving Employment Outcomes Through the Massachusetts Parole Board's Regional Reentry Center Initiative: Policy Analysis and Recommendations |
| Leaving Money and Food on the Table: Food Stamp Participation in Major Metropolitan Areas and Counties |
| Listening to Parents: Overcoming Barriers to the Adoption of Children from Foster Care |
| Managing Project Expectations in Human Services Information Systems Implementations: The Case of Homeless Management Information Systems |
| Mapping and Measuring Social Disparities in Premature Mortality: The Impact of Census Tract Poverty Within and Across Boston Neighborhoods, 1999-2001 |
| MCAS Scores and the Adams Scholarship: A Policy Failure |
| Mobilizing Geography: Locating Space in Social Movement Theory |
| More than Shelter: Housing the People of Greater Boston |
| Moving to Opportunity and Tranquility: Neighborhood Effects on Adult Self Sufficiency and Health from a Randomized Housing Voucher Experiment |
| Now That We Do: Same Sex Couples - A Demographic and Economic Perspective |
| One Step Forward: Two Steps Back, Massachusetts Nonprofit Agencies and their Clients in the Post-Welfare Reform Era |
| Operating Within The Rules: Welfare Recipients' Experiences with Sanctions and Case Closings |
| Overrepresentation of Bilingual and Poor Children in Special Education Classes: A Continuing Problem |
| Partners in Prevention: Community-Wide Homelessness Prevention in Massachusetts and the United States |
| Prison, Hospital or Community: Community Re-Entry and Mentally Ill Offenders |
| Race, Affirmative Action, and Women's Employment in U.S. Highway Construction |
| Race, Gender, and Familial Status: Discrimination in One US Mortgage Lending Market |
| Report of the 2004 Boston Youth Survey |
| School Based Programs: Lessons Learned from CATCH, Planet Health, and Not-On-Tobacco |
| Sewers in the City: A Case Study of Individual-Level Mortality and Public Health Initiatives in Northampton, Massachusetts at the Turn of the Century |
| Socioeconomic Status and Mental Illness: Tests of the Social Causation and Selection Hypothesis |
| Subprime Mortgage Lending in Greater Boston, 2000 - 2003 |
| Surviving Against the Odds: Families’ Journeys off Welfare and out of Homelessness |
| The First Community Health Centers |
| The New Safety Net: How the Tax Code Helped Low-Income Working Families During the Early 2000s |
| The Role of Community Involvement in Implementing Living Wage Ordinances |
| The Zone of Vulnerability: Poor and Working Class Families in Boston |
| Transitions at DTA: Homeless Pilot Programs at the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance (2003-2005) |
| Unequal Exposure to Ecological Hazards 2005: Environmental Injustices in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |
| Urban Planning, Community Participation, and the Roxbury Master Plan in Boston |
| Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio |
| Weatherizing the Homes of Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program Clients: A Programmatic Assessment |
| Welfare Reform and Neighborhoods: Race and Civic Participation |
| Welfare Reform, Work Requirements and Employment Barriers |
| What Progress Has Been Made in Meeting the Needs of Seriously Maltreated Children? The Course of 200 Cases Through the Boston Juvenile Court |
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