Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data

G. Thomas Kingsley, Claudia J. Coulton, Kathryn L. Pettit

• Hardcover | Urban Institute Press
• Efforts to address the problems of distressed urban neighborhoods stretch back to the 1800s, but it wasn't until the early 1990s that the factors nece... Lees meer

Public Housing and the Legacy of Segregation

Margery Austin Turner, Susan J Popkin, Lynette A Rawlings

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• For the past two decades the United States has been transforming distressed public housing communities, with three ambitious goals: replace distressed... Lees meer

Giving in Time

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Bringing together the most esteemed contemporary scholars of philanthropy, G iving in Time provides the first sustained analysis of the complex issues... Lees meer

Private Neighborhoods and the Transformation of Local Government

Robert H Nelson

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• From 1980 to 2000, half the new housing in the United States was built in a development project governed by a neighborhood association. More than 50 m... Lees meer

Growing up Hispanic

Nancy S. Landale, Susan McHale, Alan Booth

• Paperback | Urban Institute Press
• Hispanics are the largest immigrant group in the United States and the largest ethnic minority group in the nation. One in five children in the U.S. h... Lees meer

Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy

C Eugene Steuerle

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• C. Eugene Steuerle, one of the country's most influential economists, offers an insider's look at tax policy based on a quarter century of working wit... Lees meer

Tax Justice

Joseph J Thorndike, Dennis J Ventry

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Perhaps the most important quality of a tax system is that citizens consider it fair. Yet agreement on what a just tax would look like is one of the m... Lees meer

Educational Economics

Marguerite Roza

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go? examines education finance from the school's vantage point, explaining how the varied funding streams... Lees meer

No Simple Solutions

Susan J Popkin

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• This book tells the story of how an ambitious--and risky--social experiment affected the lives of the people it was ultimately intended to benefit: th... Lees meer

Giving in Time

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Bringing together the most esteemed contemporary scholars of philanthropy, Giving in Time provides the first sustained analysis of the complex issues ... Lees meer

State Tax Policy

David Brunori

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• State Tax Policy is the only book that provides students and professionals with a concise, approachable, and up-to-date introduction to the intricacie... Lees meer

Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform

Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• In this revised edition of their concise, readable, yet wide-ranging book, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox tackle a question students and scholars of law, ... Lees meer

Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform

Greg Berman, Aubrey Fox

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• In this revised edition of their concise, readable, yet wide-ranging book, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox tackle a question students and scholars of law, ... Lees meer

Older and Wiser

Lawrence H Thompson

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• The author explores the critical economic issues underlying national pension systems, including the impact of pensions on a nation's economy, the fisc... Lees meer

The Nonprofit Almanac 2012

Katie Roeger

• Paperback | Urban Institute Press
• The Nonprofit Almanac 2012 features the most recent data on the philanthropic sector, presented in more than 50 charts and 100 tables. Topics include ... Lees meer

Adolescent Pregnancy in an Urban Environment

Janet B Hardy, Laurie Schwab Zabin

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• An interdisciplinary group of clinicians and researchers involved with adolescent pregnancy and prevention programs at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in B... Lees meer

Nonprofit Almanac

Brice S McKeever, Nathan E Dietz, Saunji D Fyffe

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• The Nonprofit Almanac, Ninth Edition is an invaluable reference for managers of nonprofit organizations, foundations, and corporate social responsibil... Lees meer

Beyond Privatopia

Evan McKenzie

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• In Beyond Privatopia: Rethinking Residential Private Government, attorney and political science scholar Evan McKenzie explores emerging trends in priv... Lees meer

State Tax Policy

David Brunori

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• State Tax Policy is the only book that provides students and professionals with a concise, approachable, and up-to-date introduction to the intricacie... Lees meer

War and Taxes

Kirk J Stark, Joseph J Thorndike, Stephen A Bank

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• The history of America's tax system can be written largely as a history of America's wars. During World War II, Americans were urged to ration food, r... Lees meer

Creating a New Teaching Profession

Dan Goldhaber, Jane Hannaway

• Paperback | Urban Institute Press
• Considering that having a quality teacher is the foremost in-school predictor of students' success, ensuring teacher excellence is vital to the nation... Lees meer

Guide to Implementation Research

Alan Werner

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• The 1990s' historic welfare reform legislation shifted U.S. social policy institutions from a bureaucratic, centralized mode for income transfer, to a... Lees meer

Choosing a Better Life?

John Goering, Judith D. Feins

• Paperback | Urban Institute Press
• "Moving to Opportunit"y combines a practical and a research project: moving selected families out of public housing in impoverished neighborhoods in f... Lees meer

Juvenile Drug Courts and Teen Substance Abuse

John Roman, Jeffrey A Butts

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Institute Press
• Juvenile justice officials across the United States are embracing a new method of dealing with adolescent substance abuse. Importing a popular innovat... Lees meer