Franklin County Justice Programs Unit Asset Inventory: Justice System Data Profile

CRP used key informant interviews and a mail survey to develop an asset inventory and needs assessment for the Franklin County criminal justice system. In addition, CRP prepared an overview of data that describe trends and conditions in Franklin County that affect the justice system. The data were compiled to prepare an asset inventory of justice programs in the county and to assist a strategic planning process. The Franklin County Criminal Justice Planning Board intended to use this information for a strategic planning retreat. The report provides an overview of data that describe trends and conditions in Franklin County that affect the justice system

Columbus and Franklin County Poverty Profile

Using census data, CRP looked at poverty in Columbus and Franklin County. We examined the overall increase in poverty, the people in poverty, and where those people are living. Between 1970 and 2006, the number of persons in poverty in Franklin County grew at more than triple the rate of overall population growth. In 2006, one in three county residents had incomes below the self-sufficiency level of 200% of poverty. Over 40% of female-headed families with young children lived in poverty, while only about 4% of married couple families were poor. In 2006, Franklin County's black or African American population had a poverty rate nearly three times that for the white population. The Hispanic population had poverty over twice the rate of the white population. The poverty rate of Older Columbus was nearly three times that of Newer Columbus and almost five times suburban Franklin County; however, poverty is becoming much more dispersed. In 2000, the majority of Franklin County's poverty population (51%) lived outside of Older Columbus, compared to only 30% in 1970

Meeting the Challenges of an Aging Population with Success

With 117,099 people over the age of 65, Franklin County has the second-highest number of seniors among all Ohio counties. Projection data from the Ohio Department of Development indicates that Franklin County's 65-and-over population will grow to 224,340 by the year 2040. Key findings from this report indicate that improved coordination between the complex web of federal, state, county, and municipal resources would have significant impact on seniors' health and quality of life. The report also includes an analysis of the most vulnerable seniors in Franklin County identified at the neighborhood level

We Must All Hang Together ...

At the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, Benjamin Franklin reportedly quipped We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately . In this bicentennial year, it seems appropriate to provide the following visual confirmation of Franklin\u27s words

Benjamin Franklin and the leather-apron men: the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia

Benjamin Franklin's autobiography reveals his deep investment in shaping and controlling how both his contemporaries and posterity assessed his life and achievements. This essay explores Franklin's construction and presentation of his pride in his working-class origins and identity, analysing how and why Franklin sought not to hide his poor origins but rather to celebrate them as a virtue. As an extremely successful printer, Franklin had risen from working-class obscurity to the highest ranks of Philadelphia society, yet unlike other self-made men of the era Franklin embraced and celebrated his artisanal roots, and he made deliberate use of his working-class identity during the Seven Years War and the subsequent imperial crisis, thereby consolidating his own reputation and firming up the support of urban workers who considered him one of their own