Housing Research Data & Publications
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08/28/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Katrina’s Children— Still Struggling"
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. -
12/23/08
State of America's Children 2008® Report - Housing
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. -
03/28/08
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Let's Not Discard Working Families That Got Subprimed"
"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 ..." -
03/28/08
Marian Wright Edelman's La Columna Child Watch®: "No olvidemos a las familias trabajadores afectadas por la crisis de las hipotecas subprime"
El bajón económico que ha sacudido el país en los últimos meses se atribuye en parte a la crisis de hipotecas de alto riesgo conocidas como subprime. Su impacto sobre las casas de inversión con valores e inversiones en hipotecas subprime ha sido devastador. Se han perdido muchos miles de millones de dólares debido a esta crisis y la suma sigue aumentando. Es un asunto muy serio. -
08/24/07
Marian Wright Edelman's La Columna Child Watch®: "Katrina—dos años en la vida de un niño"
Hace dos años, el 29 de agosto, el huracán Katrina batió la costa del Golfo de Luisiana y Mississippi, desplazando a cientos de miles de personas. Las comunidades económicamente deprimidas antes del huracán sufrieron el mayor daño. Es una vergüenza para el país que muchos niños todavía sufren el trauma de la horrenda experiencia de sobrevivir en las secuelas de la tormenta. -
02/01/07
A Look at the President's 2008 Budget and Children - Children and Low-Income Families Continue to Be Left Behind
A breakdown and analysis of the President's 2008 budget as it relates to children. -
01/01/05
2005 State of America's Children, Chapter 1, Family Income & Jobs
"Family Income & Jobs: Raising Children Out of Poverty," Chapter 1 of the 2005 State of America's Children report.
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