Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart -- Community Development Resources

Resources: Resources: Inequality

Title:	Explorations in Social Inequality
Summary:	Explanations, examples, and links on: theory and measurement, stratification, segregation, demographics, regional, neighborhood, international inequalities, the economics of inequality.
URL:	http://www.trinity.edu/~mkearl/strat.html

Title:	Institute of Urban and Regional Development
Summary:	The Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD) serves faculty and students of the University of California, Berkeley, conducting research into processes of urban and regional growth and decline, and effects of governing policies on the patterns and processes of development. Current research focuses on sustainable development, social and economic impacts, inner city inequality, and improvement in methods of analysis. Resources include links and publications.
URL:	http://www-iurd.ced.berkeley.edu/

Title:	MacArthur Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic Performance
Summary:	Research into the relationship between inequality and the economic success of nations, firms, and local communities.
URL:	http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/macarthur/inequality/

Title:	Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends
Summary:	Uses Census Bureau data to measure pre-tax changes in real incomes among high-, middle- and low-income families in each of the fifty states at similar points in the business cycle -- from the late 1970s to the late 1980s and from then until recently.
Location:	Economic Policy Institute
URL:	http://www.cbpp.org/1-18-00sfp.htm

Title:	Research on Income Distribution
Summary:	This web site provides links to Brookings scholars, data, papers, and references to studies of inequality.
Location:	Brookings Institution
URL:	http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/es/research/ra4.htm

Title:	Social Inequality and Classes
Summary:	An annotated bibliography and direct links to articles/reports on inequality, class, stratification, and poverty.
URL:	http://www.pscw.uva.nl/sociosite/TOPICS/Inequality.html

Title:	The Causes of Income Inequality
Summary:	Addresses the causes of the income gap, and some proposed solutions.
URL:	http://www.ncpa.org/~ncpa/pd/economy/ecob2.html

Title:	The Institute for Fiscal Studies
Summary:	IFS is an independent research organization based in the UK that aims to provide high quality economic analysis of public policy. You can use the links to navigate by subject area, which include inequality, health, public finance, labor market, consumption, charities and more. Most useful for its research and publications.
URL:	http://www1.ifs.org.uk/

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