Research Library
Housing Research Data & Publications
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07/15/11
The Children's Defense Fund has just released a new report, The State of America's Children 2011, which paints a disturbing portrait of child needs across our country. With rampant unemployment, housing foreclosures, homelessness, hunger, and massive looming federal and state budget cuts, children's well-being is in great jeopardy. One in five children is poor and children are our nation's poorest age group.
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01/13/11
CDF produced "Portrait of Inequality 2011", a report showing the gross inequalities facing Black children compared to White children, across all critical indicators of wellbeing.
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01/13/11
CDF produced a one-page document comparing Black and White children in the crucial areas of poverty, family structure, health, education and the criminal justice system.
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01/13/11
New research conducted by Hart Research Associates on behalf of the Black Community Crusade for Children (BCCC) found two issues have risen to the top of serious concerns the Black community faces.
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12/31/10
Andy Sum, professor of economics and director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, conducted a study that found the American dream and employment opportunities vanishing for many Black young people.
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08/28/09
Dear President Obama: My name is Jade Windon, 7th grade student at McDonogh 42 Charter School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Mr. President, I write to you expressing how many of our lives continue to be affected today by the storm that happened almost four years ago. Hurricane Katrina devastated the lives of everyone here and in the Gulf Coast region.
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12/23/08
CDF's State of America's Children 2008 report is a compilation of national and state-by-state data on poverty, health, child welfare, youth at risk, early childhood development, education, nutrition and housing. This section of the report contains data on fair market rent vs. minimum wage.
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03/28/08
El baj??n econ??mico que ha sacudido el pa??s en los ??ltimos meses se atribuye en parte a la crisis de hipotecas de alto riesgo conocidas como subprime. Su impacto sobre las casas de inversi??n con valores e inversiones en hipotecas subprime ha sido devastador. Se han perdido muchos miles de millones de d??lares debido a esta crisis y la suma sigue aumentando. Es un asunto muy serio.
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03/28/08
"The economic downturn that has rocked our nation over the last few months has been attributed in part to the subprime mortgage crisis. Its impact on our nation's biggest mortgage lenders, major banks and Wall Street investment houses with holdings and investments in subprime mortgages ..."
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08/24/07
Hace dos a??os, el 29 de agosto, el hurac??n Katrina bati?? la costa del Golfo de Luisiana y Mississippi, desplazando a cientos de miles de personas. Las comunidades econ??micamente deprimidas antes del hurac??n sufrieron el mayor da??o. Es una verg??enza para el pa??s que muchos ni??os todav??a sufren el trauma de la horrenda experiencia de sobrevivir en las secuelas de la tormenta.