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Seminar about New Jersey Community Capital










Friday 11/20/2015
10:00AM-11:30AM



Faculty Lounge
3rd Floor, Armitage

311 N. 5th Street
Camden, NJ 08102














Seminar about New Jersey

Community Capital


Sponsored by the Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs and
The Center for Urban Research and Education (CURE)


New Jersey Community Capital, a nonprofit community development financial institution fostering the creation of quality homes, educational facilities, and employment opportunities in underserved communities of New Jersey, has been contracted by the Pascale Sykes Foundation to leverage $4 million into $15 million to do economic development in Atlantic, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Salem Counties. The project is called THRIVE South Jersey.

Join Marie Mascherin and Diane Sterner of New Jersey Community Capital as they describe their work in Camden and the opportunities that their initiative can provide to Rutgers students, faculty, and staff.



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Ph.D. Student Explains American Community Survey Data Showing Camden’s Drop in Poverty

By Tom McLaughlin

In mid-September, the U.S. Census Bureau released the most recent data from its American Community Survey, an ongoing study that provides vital demographic information, such as jobs, occupations, house ownership, and educational attainment.

wheeler-copy2At the time, Chris Wheeler, a Ph.D. candidate in public affairs-community development at Rutgers University–Camden, read how analysts cited in local media reports were baffled by statistics showing a sudden drop in poverty in Camden. So he did a little digging.

“When I looked further into some of the demographic and economic indicators, the reasons for this drop became quite clear,” says Wheeler, a Willow Grove, Pa., resident, who grew up in nearby Glenside.

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Next CURE seminar: Paul Scully, Building One America – Friday October 30, 2015

Friday, October 30, 2015 – 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Executive Private Dining Room,  Campus Center
Lunch will be served

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“Restoring the historic relationship between the labor movement and civil rights in the fight against segregation and inequality”

Paul Scully, Building One America

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Building One America’s purpose is to fight for and promote a fully inclusive society that provides equal access to middle class opportunity and security for all Americans regardless of race, class, or ethnicity.

In a society where rising economic inequality and persistent racial segregation allow a small number of privileged individuals and exclusive communities to horde the re
sources of our regions and our national economy, BOA fights for a fair share and a fair chance for all American families, workers, and their communities.

BOA’s strategy is to build non-partisan, multi-racial grassroots power at a regional, state, and national level among leaders of people-based institutions, including religious congregations, labor unions, universities, schools, and local government t
o advance infrastructure investment, tax reform, fair housing, and fair school funding to end economic and social isolation, reduce disparities in wealth and income, expand middle class opportunity and promote jobs and sustainable economic growth.

By bringing together these groups and fighting for this agenda, BOA seeks to restore and rebuild the powerful and historic alliance between organized labor and the civil rights movement to fight for both racial justice and middle class opportunity for all Americans.

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Next CURE seminar-Robert Wagmiller, Jr.- Friday, October 2

 

Friday, October 2, 2015 – 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Faculty Lounge, 3rd floor Armitage Hall
Lunch will be served

 

“The Emerging Life Course Perspective on Residential Attainment”

WagmillerRobert Wagmiller, Jr.
Temple University

In recent years urban scholars studying residential attainment have increasing drawn upon ideas and concepts from the life course perspective on human development. In this talk, I will review recent studies of residential attainment using life course concepts and highlight the new insights into residential mobility and racial residential stratification that have emerged from these studies. I will argue that despite these recent advances urban scholars have yet to fully utilize the rich conceptual toolkit that the life course perspective offers. I will propose a more comprehensive life course perspective on residential attainment in this talk, and present preliminary findings from several studies I am currently conducting. These studies show the important effects that residential experiences in childhood have on residential attainment and racial residential stratification.

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