Thursday, October 27, 2011

Study Refutes Congressman Paul Ryan's Claims About Upward Mobility | Center for Media and Democracy

Study Refutes Congressman Paul Ryan's Claims About Upward Mobility | Center for Media and Democracy

190. The Social Cost of Open Enrollment as a School Choice Policy. 2010

NCSPE: Research Publications

190. The Social Cost of Open Enrollment as a School Choice Policy. 2010.
Author: Cory Koedel, Julian R. Betts, Lorien A. Rice, & Andrew C. Zau

We evaluate the integrating and segregating effects of school choice in a large, urban school district. Our findings suggest that open enrollment, a school-choice program without explicit integrative objectives which does not provide busing, segregates students along three socioeconomic dimensions – race/ethnicity, student achievement and parental-education status. Using information on expenditures to promote integration at the district, we back out estimates of the social cost of open enrollment realized in terms of student segregation. Our estimates vary widely depending on several assumptions, but a social-cost estimate of roughly 10 million dollars per year is on the high end of our range of estimates for this single district. Although this number represents a sizeable portion of the district’s integrative-busing budget, it is a small fraction of the district’s total budget (≈1.4 billion dollars). Further, we note that this cost may be offset by benefits not related to integration.
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Income for Top One Percent 'Grew by 275 Percent' in the Past 28 Years | AlterNet

Income for Top One Percent 'Grew by 275 Percent' in the Past 28 Years | AlterNet

Income Inequality Reaches Gilded Age Levels, Congressional Report Finds

Income Inequality Reaches Gilded Age Levels, Congressional Report Finds

Five Facts You Need to Know about Poverty in America - Tim King - God's Politics Blog

Five Facts You Need to Know about Poverty in America - Tim King - God's Politics Blog

New Statesman - Poverty, not lack of morals, was to blame for the riots

New Statesman - Poverty, not lack of morals, was to blame for the riots

How the 1 percent rules | SocialistWorker.org

How the 1 percent rules | SocialistWorker.org

Thursday, October 20, 2011

BBC News - Rising energy bills causing fuel poverty deaths

BBC News - Rising energy bills causing fuel poverty deaths

Paul Gorski to speak at Furman University on poverty (UPDATE)


A Cultural Life Program on poverty will be sponsored by the Furman University chapter of the NAACP this coming WEDNESDAY October 26 in Patrick Lecture Hall/Plyler 126 at 7 pm.

Gorski is one of the first scholars to challenge the workshops and ideology of Ruby Payne. His work confronts assumptions about the culture of poverty and deficit perspectives related to poverty and people living in poverty.

See information about him and some of his work at these links:

http://paulgorski.efoliomn.com/

http://paulgorski.efoliomn.com/Publications

http://rubypayneiswrong.blogspot.com/p/scholarship-debunking-payne.html