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Interaction with the police impacts not only arrestees, but also their families and communities. Using a unique collection of previously untapped administrative datasets, Rim and Ba (with Roman Rivera, Ph.D. student, Columbia University) will provide a holistic evaluation of the defendants’ journeys through the criminal justice system from arrest to court decision, including any spillover effects of a conviction on defendants’ families. They will focus on the role of police and judges to evaluate options for improving police accountability and the criminal justice system.

Lens will use spatial and demographic methods to categorize the characteristics and summarize the trajectories of Black neighborhoods in the U.S. since 1970. He will build on this historical examination to address contemporary policy debates related to housing, segregation, neighborhood effects, and race. His goal is to better understand the conditions under which Black neighborhoods flourish or fail, the residential mobility pathways in and out of these neighborhoods, and the consequences of various policy choices on Black neighborhoods.

In recent decades, government assistance to low-income families has shifted away from direct cash assistance and toward work-contingent benefits like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The EITC has been credited with increasing the labor supply of single mothers and lifting millions of families out of poverty each year. Yet, little is known about the type or quality of work that single mothers find.

Cover image of the book Social Work Year Book, 1941
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Social Work Year Book, 1941

A Description of Organized Activities in Social Work and in Related Fields
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Russell H. Kurtz, ed.
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Publication Date
828 pages

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The sixth biennial issue of reports on the status of organized activities in social work and in related fields, including 83 signed articles prepared by authorities on the topics discussed as well as a directory of national and state agencies, both governmental and voluntary, related to social work.

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An Effective Exhibition of a Community Survey

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Committee of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation
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8 pages

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A Brief Description of the Springfield Survey Exhibition, reprinted from The American City, vol. XII, No. 2, February 1915.

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The Transportation Problem in American Social Work

Including an Account of the Origin and Development of The Transportation Agreement
Author
Jeffrey R. Brackett
Ebook
Publication Date
38 pages

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This pamphlet reviews the work of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, as well as the National Conference of Jewish Charities, in regard to relief and care for the homeless. It was written while the Transient Division of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the first nationwide program for the care of the homeless, was in operation.

Jeffrey R. Brackett was chairman of advisory board, Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare.

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Health, Morality and the Playground

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Elmer Elsworth Brown
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2 pages

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From Charities and the Commons, promoting the benefits of outdoor play and public playgrounds.

Elmer Elsworth Brown, United States Commissioner of Education

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Suggestions for Celebrating Independence

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August H. Brunner
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20 pages

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This pamphlet provides recommendations for safer celebratory traditions for the Fourth of July.

August H. Brunner, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

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Receiving Home for Foundlings and for Mothers with Their Babies

The New Type Foundling Asylum
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Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation
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8 pages

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A model aimed for use by various institutions that provide asylum to orphaned children and struggling mothers, including temporary receiving homes into which mothers who might otherwise abandon their children are received with them. The model is designed to exhibited the chief sanitary features which the medical profession recognize as essential to success in saving the lives and improving the vitality of the babies who must have institutional care temporarily.

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A Comparative Study of Public School Systems in the Forty-Eight States

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Division of Education of the Russell Sage Foundation
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36 pages

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From the foreword: “Every other winter the legislatures of about forty states meet in deliberative session. They consider approximately 1,000 bills on educational questions and enact about 200 of them into law. This pamphlet has been compiled with the object of making available to legislators, school workers, and others having at heart the interests of public education, salient facts concerning school conditions in all the states. The figures have been derived from official sources and every care exercised to insure their accuracy. Every endeavor has been made to avoid complexities and technicalities. The object of the work is to render available to each state the experience of all.

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