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Five Questions For Everett Henderson
Everett Henderson, a research associate in Urban Institute's Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population, is an expert on immigrant populations and the U.S. labor market. He is an author of the two-part A Profile of Immigrants in Arkansas, which finds that Arkansas is home to the nation's fastest-growing Hispanic population.
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A Profile of Immigrants in Arkansas
Arkansas, which had the 4th fastest growing immigrant population and fastest growing Latino population of any state between 2000 and 2005, is the subject of this series of reports. Volume 1 provides detailed demographic information about the foreign-born in Arkansas and compares immigrants to natives on a wide variety of quality-of-life measures. It profiles immigrants' countries of birth, legal status, educational attainment, poverty, homeownership, employment, and the primary industries in which they are employed. Volume 2 assesses immigrants' impacts on the Arkansas economy, in terms of consumer spending, tax contributions, fiscal costs, and the savings that businesses and consumers realize by using immigrant labor. An executive summary is also included.
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Tracking the Well-Being of Children and Youth at the State and...
The report provides a one-stop resource for anyone needing access to state- and local-level estimates of child and youth well-being. Areas covered include health, education, economics and demographics, crime and juvenile justice, and child welfare. Information provided for each source includes an overview of the source content as well as how to access the related publications, surveys, and databases containing the data. Internet addresses for these resources are provided when available. The report focuses on federal sources, though a few nonfederal sources are also covered.
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In Cities, Suburbs and the Sticks: Gary Gates Uncovers the U...
[Financial Times] Not too long ago, only a few large U.S. cities, such as San Francisco and New York, were thought of as gay meccas. Today, hundreds of American towns bear gay markings, not only in the form of a few fluttering rainbow flags but in thriving urban businesses, suburban cultural offerings and revitalized holiday venues. This article uses findings from The Gay and Lesbian Atlas (Urban Institute Press, 2004) to show there is more than anecdotal evidence to support the growing belief that gay and lesbians are vital to many American communities.
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Health Policy for Low-Income People in Arizona
The author contends that the health insurance system in Arizona is in the midst of a crisis. At the beginning of the decade, roughly 21 percent of the state's population was without health insurance. By 1997, that number was up to 28 percent, the highest in the nation, despite the state's strong economy and low rate of unemployment. The author argues that the state's economy is driven by service-sector jobs that offer employees relatively low pay and frequently do not offer health insurance or other benefits. Arizona is also the only state in the nation that requires all Medicaid beneficiaries to receive long-term services from Managed Care companies. The author describes the impact of the states effort to introduce more health plan competition into this program.
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U.S. Immigration at the Beginning of the 21st Century: Testimony...
The 20th century began with the country in the midst of the greatest wave of immigration in its history. The century ended in the midst of another period of high immigration, greater in numerical terms but smaller in its relative impact than the immigration of 100 years earlier.
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Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities: Barriers at...
Not enough is known about the prevalence of housing discrimination against persons with disabilities. Only slightly more than half of Americans know that it is illegal for landlords to refuse to make reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities or to permit reasonable modification to a housing unit. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) contracted with the Urban Institute to advance the state of the art in testing to measure discrimination against persons with disabilities. UI found that persons with the disabilities studied encountered significant levels of adverse treatment when searching for rental housing in the Chicago area--even more than that of African-American or Hispanic renters in the Chicago-area housing market.
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Variations in the Uninsured: State- and County-Level Analyses
Using the state as the unit of analysis, this study gauges the effects of various state policy interventions on rates of uninsurance, private coverage, and Medicaid coverage for the nonelderly population. The study controls for economic structures, population demographics, and characteristics of the health-service market. Then, using Wisconsin counties as units of analysis within a common regulatory environment, the relative importance of economic and demographic characteristics of the health-service market are tested to see if any of these factors can explain overall rates of health insurance coverage.
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Honey, I'm Home: Changes in Living Arrangements in the Late 1990...
Between 1997 and 1999, the share of families composed of a single mother living independently declined. At the same time, the share of families composed of cohabiting couples with children rose. In addition, changes in living arrangements are more pronounced among population sub-groups that are more likely to be affected by welfare policies ? lower income and less educated families. This suggests that welfare policies may have contributed to the decline in single parenting and rise in cohabitation between 1997 and 1999. This brief is based on data from the 1997 and 1999 rounds of the National Survey of America's Families.
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