Poverty Matters: It's Now 50/50, Chicago Region Poverty Growth is a Suburban Story

Nationwide, the number of people in poverty in the suburbs has now surpassed the number of people in poverty in central cities. Cities have long been thought to be home to the most and worst poverty. However, in the past several decades, the suburbs have experienced the greatest growth in poverty. In this brief, the Social IMPACT Research Center examines the distribution of poverty in Chicago and the suburbs over two decades. The findings suggest that from 1990 to 2011, poverty grew much more in the suburbs than in Chicago, and consequently, poverty became more equally distributed between Chicago and the suburbs

Does the U.S. Government Think That International Law Is Important?

State Department and other U.S. officials involved in consular activities, technical negotiations, and economic programs represent the majority of the American civilian, non-intelligence foreign policy establishment. Many would be puzzled by the question posed in this essay. International agreements, understandings, and conventions represent the daily grist and foundation of their work. These agreements, such as those on the rights of American citizens abroad, international trade, criminal extradition, and scientific cooperation, embody the corpus of customary law and mutually agreed-upon arrangements through which affairs among nations are ordinarily conducted. The behavior regulated by these arrangements actually represents the heart of day-to-day international activity below the high politics that attracts media attention

Tampa Bay Region Mass Transportation: Phase II

Tampa Bay Region, Florida Tampa Bay region mass transportation: Phase II. Prepared for the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council, by Harvey N. Kreisberg. McLean, Va : TRW Systems Group, 1971. With appendixes document