Urban Institute: Press Releases http://www.urban.org/Pressroom/releases.cfm Urban Institute reports on: Press Releases - The Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation. en-us Copyright 2012 Urban Institute http://backend.userland.com/rss Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:40:00 EST Urban Institute http://www.urban.org/images/UI_logo_29x29.jpg 29 29 http://www.urban.org <![CDATA[How Do the Top 100 Metro Areas Rank on Racial and Ethnic Equity?]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901478&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Urban Institute Launches Infrastructure Initiative Led by Transportation Scholar Sandra Rosenbloom]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901477&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Interactive Map Shows Local Job Strength by Sector]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901475&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Sarah Rosen Wartell, Think Tank Executive and Housing Finance Expert, to be the Urban Institute's Third President]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901469&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Are You Ready for the Charity Challenge?]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901461&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Health Cost Containment: No Silver Bullets, Needs Multipronged Approach]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901455&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Surveillance Cameras Cost-Effective Tools for Cutting Crime, 3-Year Study Concludes]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901450&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Family Policy Scholar Elizabeth Peters Becomes Director of Urban Institute's Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901444&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Policymakers, Care Providers, Consumers, and Researchers Must Collaborate to Develop a Sustainable Long-Term Care System, Scholar Says in New Book]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901441&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Drug Courts Can Reduce Substance Use and Crime, Five-Year Study Shows, But Effectiveness Hinges on the Judge]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901438&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Robert Reischauer Stepping Down as President of the Urban Institute]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901434&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Deep Bench of Experts Available to Explain Retirement Data and Issues]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901430&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Private Residential Governments Need More Oversight and Homeowners Need More Rights, Scholar Proposes in New Book]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901426&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Students and Teachers Fare Better Under Effectiveness-Based Teacher Layoffs, Studies Find]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901413&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( CALDER Center ) Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Institutions in National Science Foundation's HBCU-UP Program Are Leading Gateways to Science and Engineering Degrees]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901412&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[For Working Poor, Tax Season Brings Rush to Use Refund Anticipation Loans and Checks]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901410&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Nine States Chosen to be Laboratories Testing Inventive Ways to Streamline Services for Low-Income Working Families]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901409&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Urban Institute Project Will Test Services Aiding Low-Income Public Housing Residents and Their Communities]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901403&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Unemployed Older Workers Encounter Special Difficulties Finding Jobs]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901400&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Pamela Loprest to Direct the Urban Institute's Income and Benefits Policy Center]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901398&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Experts Say Cross-Disciplinary Research and Interventions are Needed to Better Care for Children of Incarcerated Parents]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901396&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Experts Demonstrate that Cost-Benefit Analysis Can Lead to Better Crime Control]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901389&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Hammered by the Recession, Most Human Service Nonprofits Say They're Having Major Problems with Government Contracts]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901383&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Children of Immigrants Drive the Increase in America's Youth Population, but Almost Half Live in Low-Income Families]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901382&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Experts Available to Comment on New Poverty Data]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901379&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[1 in 4 Young Students Has an Immigrant Parent]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901376&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[More Than Half of Poor Infants Have Mothers Showing Signs of Depression]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901377&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Experts Call for Renewed Focus on Police Accountability in a New Urban Institute Press Book]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901395&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Researchers Lay Out Ways to Address Hardships Faced By Hispanic Children]]> Growing Up Hispanic: Health and Development of Children of Immigrants. The volume examines how neighborhood, family, school, and community affect these children's development and well-being.]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901366&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Strategies for Fighting Poverty after ARRA Expires]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901364&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Rolf Pendall Becomes the Director of the Urban Institute's Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901368&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Tue, 06 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Born Poor? Half of These Babies Will Spend Most of Their Childhoods in Poverty; Significantly More Likely to Be Poor 30 Years Later]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901356&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Court Innovators Take Readers on Nuanced Exploration of Criminal Justice Reform]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901353&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[The Urban Institute Releases Eight Policy Papers on How to Reduce Poverty and Joblessness After ARRA]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901339&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Former Hill and White House Adviser Donald Marron To Direct Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901337&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Tue, 13 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[School Spending Is Poorly Tracked, at Odds with Policy Goals, Reveals Expert in Urban Institute Press Book]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901334&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Social Scientists Decipher the Values Underlying the U.S. Social Safety Net]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901326&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Balance Child and Family Protection with Immigration Enforcement Goals, Study Recommends]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901320&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Former D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams Joins the Urban Institute's Board of Trustees]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901311&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Reform Ideas in New Book Aim for Teacher Excellence]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901305&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Ambitious Reform Efforts Evaluated in New Book on America's High Schools]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901302&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Latinos Are the Least Represented Group of Color in California's Nonprofit Sector]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901299&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Children of Immigrants: A Statistical Snapshot]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901294&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Policy Polymath Eugene Steuerle Returns to the Urban Institute]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901295&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Rising Tide of Foreclosures and Mortage Delinquencies Will Add Turmoil to Metro DC Housing Market and Families' Lives : Pressures Mount for Prime Loans and Minorities]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901293&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Recruitment is Key to Graduating More Women Engineers]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901310&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[City Backs D.C. Public Safety Research Center to Be Housed at the Urban Institute]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901289&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Nancy La Vigne to Head the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901287&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[Transformation of Affordable-Housing Policy Illuminated in New Historical Analysis]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901282&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 EST <![CDATA[New Research Explores the Sometimes Rough Road to Adulthood]]> http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?id=901280&RSSFeed=UI_PressRelease.xml paffairs@urban.org ( Urban Institute ) Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 EST