An important decision was handed down today in the Wisconsin voter ID case, decision and order. The judge cited Professor Lori Minnite’s testimony in finding that the law unconstitutional and violation of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (pp. 18-19): “As Professor Minnite testified, the publicity surrounding photo ID legislation creates the false perception that voter-impersonation fraud is widespread, thereby needlessly undermining the public’s confidence in the electoral process.”
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CURE affiliated scholar Stephen Danley writes about living in Camden
Uncovering the other across the river
Just a 10-month resident, Penn grad and Steve Danley is fast learning the intricacies of Camden
By MIKE TONY · April 28, 2014
Center director Paul Jargowsky to speak at Department of State sponsored exchange – topic of inequality – in NY Fri, May 2
Center director Paul Jargowsky was invited to speak at the Department of State sponsored exchange of a 13 member group of economists, researchers, bankers, forecasters, etc. from Mexico, Argentina, Turkey, Vietnam and other emerging market countries on May 2, 2014. For a list of participant bios, please visit: MRP – Global Economicy Recovery – Participant Bios
New article by CURE affiliated scholar Jeounghee Kim on national high school graduation rate
Congrats to our affiliated scholar, Jeounghee Kim, MSW, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, for publishing the following article:
Joo, M., & Kim, J. (2014). National high school graduation rate: Are recent birth cohorts taking more time to graduate? Education and Urban Society. DOI: 10.1177/0013124514529328
Center Director Paul Jargowsky spoke at the Economic Policy Institute
Neighborhoods with Concentrated Poverty
Economic Policy Institute
Thursday, April 10, 2014 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (EDT)
Washington, DC
EPI and The Century Foundation present a discussion of Sharkey and Jargowsky’s work on neighborhoods with concentrated poverty with Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic and Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP.
Moderator:
Richard Rothstein, Research Associate of the Economic Policy Institute
Presenters:
Patrick Sharkey, Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University and author of Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality.
Paul Jargowsky, Professor of Public Policy, Rutgers University and author of Concentration of Poverty in the New Millennium and Century Foundation fellow
Discussants:
Ta-Nehisi Coates, national correspondent at The Atlantic, author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle
Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.