COVID-19 and Economic Opportunity
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented economic crisis with inequitable effects.
COVID-19 and Economic Opportunity: Inequities in the Employment Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic caused an unprecedented economic crisis with inequitable effects. Overall employment figures mask the disparate impacts on some communities of color, women, and low-wage workers. These groups were more likely to lose jobs, reduce hours worked, or withdraw from the labor market.
Inequities in the COVID-19 Employment Crisis
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Lessons Learned from Virtual Human Services during COVID-19
Interviews with program administrators and frontline workers across a range of human services programs early in the COVID-19 pandemic provided key takeaways to help promote effective, accessible, and equitable virtual service delivery.
Lessons Learned from Virtual Human Services during COVID-19
Easy or Hard? Delivering Different Types of Human Services Virtually
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many human services programs rapidly shifted their service delivery from primarily or exclusively in person to mostly or entirely virtual (via phone, video call, text, email, etc.) with varying degrees of perceived success.
Easy or Hard? Delivering Different Types of Human Services Virtually
Choosing Platforms for Virtual Human Services Delivery
Interviews with program administrators and frontline workers across a range of human services programs early in the COVID-19 pandemic provided great insight into the tradeoffs and relative advantages of choosing virtual platforms to administer services from.
Choosing Platforms for Virtual Human Services Delivery
Virtual Human Services for Different Populations
Interviews with program administrators and frontline workers across a range of human services programs early in the COVID-19 pandemic offered rich information about how well virtual service delivery worked for different types of participants.
Virtual Human Services for Different Populations
Virtual Human Service Delivery: Scan of Implementation and Lessons Learned
The COVID-19 pandemic largely forced human services programs to shift from in-person to virtual service delivery, making this a growing and emerging field.
Sources of Support for Young Latina Mothers
SOURCES OF SUPPORT FOR YOUNG LATINA MOTHERS
Joan R. Kahn and Rosalind E. Berkowitz
The Urban Institute
August 16, 1995
Prepared for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, Contract No. HHS-100-92-0005, Delivery Order No. 14. The authors gratefully acknowledge the h
An AI/AN Suicide Prevention Hotline: Literature Review and Discussion with Experts
This exploratory study provides background information pertaining to an American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) Suicide Prevention Hotline. The topics explored include: the extent of use of such a hotline by AI/ANs, barriers to use, hotline implementation models, cultural competencies needed by hotline staff, extent of AI/AN community support, and
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How Are Immigrants Faring?
This report primarily provides analyses based on a telephone survey of 3,447 immigrant families (i.e., families with at least one foreign-born adult) in New York City and Los Angeles County, including detailed data on 7,843 people in those families. It describes the living conditions and immigration status of about 4.8 million people in Los Angel
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An AI/AN Suicide Prevention Hotline: Literature Review and Discussion with Experts
An American Indian/Alaska Native Suicide Prevention Hotline: Literature Review and Discussion with Experts
Prepared by: Peggy Halpern Ph.D, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
November, 2009
This report is available on the Internet at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/09/AIAN
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Imprisonment and Disenfranchisement of Disconnected Low-Income Men. Acknowledgments
We would like to extend a special thank you to the HHS staff for their commitment to this project and for making this work possible; in particular, we acknowledge the federal project officers, Annette Waters and Kimberly Clum. We are also grateful to Kendall Swenson for his work with the data and to Erica Meade for her contributions.
Imprisonment and Disenfranchisement of Disconnected Low-Income Men. About the Series
A large number of US men of prime working age are neither gainfully employed nor pursuing education or other training, suggesting a potentially significant disconnection from mainstream economic and social life. The Urban Institute, funded by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US Department of Health and Human Servi
Imprisonment and Disenfranchisement of Disconnected Low-Income Men. References
Bonczar, Thomas. 2003. “Prevalence of Imprisonment in the US Population, 1974-2001.” NCJ 197976. Washington, DC: US De-partment of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Carson, E. Ann, and William J. Sabol. 2012. “Prisoners in 2011.” NCJ 239808. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, Office of Justice Prog
Imprisonment and Disenfranchisement of Disconnected Low-Income Men. Notes
In 2010, the year for the data estimates, the federal poverty threshold was $11,344 for a single adult and $17,552 for a family of three with one child. Twice the poverty level was $22,688 for a single adult and $35,104 for a family of three ( http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/threshld/ ).
Imprisonment and Disenfranchisement of Disconnected Low-Income Men. Conclusion
Statistics on prisoners do not allow us to determine how disproportionately low-income men are imprisoned, but data on imprisonment by race and ethnicity provide a stark picture of the extent of disparities. Since African American and Hispanic men are more likely to be low income, this perspective gives some sense of the impact of being low income
Imprisonment and Disenfranchisement of Disconnected Low-Income Men. High Imprisonment Rates Take a Toll on Communities
Figure 6. Incarceration Costs by Zip Code, Houston, 2008
Source: Justice Mapping Center.