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The Black Belt Action Network and our own affiliates networks publishes work from its own research that informs how individuals, families, and communities build, increase capacity, educate, and improve lives. By lifting and highlighting what works, we hope that the research, evaluation and presentations shared will lead you to better information that would produce evidence for policy-makers, practitioners in the field and families within the home can use.
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Dismantling Persistent Poverty In The Southeastern United States
Our study concludes that there is indeed a Southeast Region with persistent poverty over three census periods–and it is the poorest of all regions of the country.
Dismantling Persistent Poverty in Georgia: Breaking the Cycle
It's A Matter of Wealth: dismantling Persistent Poverty in the Southeastern United States
Tuskegee wrote its own report "Persistent Poverty in the South: A Community-Based. Perspective: Community-Based. Solutions, 2003." In its report ...
The Black Belt Rural Development Initiative - IIIS - International
by T. THOMAS
Related articlesTuskegee University, and community-based organizations has been working to develop an organization modeled after a federal commission to address persistent poverty in the Black ...
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Building knowledge about complex, community-based initiatives
Since 1997, there has been a growing interest in the United Kingdom in reducing healthinequalities, regenerating disadvantaged neighbourhoods and ending cycles of social exclusion.
The Faces of Poverty in the Black Belt Region
In the Shadows of Poverty “Strengthening the Rural Poverty Research Capacity of the South”
Memphis, TN
July 21, 2003
Sokoya Finch, ED, Florida Family Network, Inc.
Globalization and Racism: A Black Belt Region Education Perspective
...Tuskegee University. Globalization is the process of ... In persistently poor counties the overall poverty rates result primarily from low income among blacks ...
Community-University Partnerships for Change in the Black Belt South
by Rosalind. Harris
This article explores issues related to community-university partnerships by examining the unfolding of the Black Belt Initiative, a 21st century mobilization within the Black Belt South to establish a Black Belt Regional Commission.
Black Power in the Alabama Black Belt to the 1970s
by Veronica L. Womack
Veronica L. Womack argues that white land control, an impoverished working class, and violent race relations resulted in a distinctive form of Black Power in Alabama. African Americans purchased land despite this, but Alabama still had the second lowest rate of black landownership among black farmers....
Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule: African American Landowning Families since Reconstruction
Debra Reid and Evan Bennett
Beyond Forty Acres and a Mule focuses on America's most-forgotten farmers: black families that cast their lot on their own land and depended on their own labor in a nation that doubted their right to control either.
Asset Building in the South: Organizations and Services
The Southern Regional Asset Building Coalition (SRABC) is a partnership between Tuskegee University, Center for Social Development, Alabama Arise/Citizens’ Policy Project, Mississippi Association of Cooperatives, Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Florida Family Network, and Florida A&M University.
CSD is collaborating with faculty and staff at the G. W. Carver Agricultural Experiment Station at Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Alabama to develop state and regional asset-building coalitions in the southern Black Belt region.
Research Brief: The Southern Regional Asset Building Coalition Survey
Gunn, G., & Heffern, J. (2009)
Building a Coalition in the Black Belt States for an Inclusive Asset-Building Policy and Program Agenda: Focus on Victims of Katrina, Rita, and other Recent Hurricanes and Black-Owned Landloss
Policy Brief: State-Level Asset-Building Coalitions: Origins, Operations, and Achievements
Warren, N., & Gunn, G. (2009)
Asset-building policies in the United States have existed for well over a century, but scholarship conducted during the last 20 years (e.g. Sherraden, 1991) has demonstrated that people in low- to moderate-income tiers essentially do not benefit from these policies.
Confronting and Closing the Wealth Gap
Joint Center for Politicial and Economic Studies
Warren, N., & Gunn, G. (2009)
This policy initiative responds to the research conducted by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in a two-part analysis, Asset Building in Low-Income Communities of Color,....
Asset Building in Low-Income Communities of Color, Part 1
Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Ph.D.Lauren M. Ross, Anna L. Wheatley & Danielle Huff
This report by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies presents findings from the first year of an initiative to assess what works to enable low-income communities of color build assets.
Asset Building in Low-Income Communities of Color, Part 2
Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Ph.D & .Anna L. Wheatley
This report by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies presents findings from the second year of an initiative to assess what works to enable low-income communities of color to build assets. It highlights predisposing factors and promising practices in 10 states that received low rankings on asset building for low-income people in the 2007-2008 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard. The...
Rural Poverty Research Symposium December 2 & 3, 2013
Dr. Veronica Womack
Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration Director of the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity and Special Advisor to the President
Priorities and the 2012 House and
The Southern Regional Asset-Building Coalition (SRABC) Project is a partnership
among state coalitions in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi dedicated to
developing and advocating for policies and programs that support low-income families
and sustain communities across the southern region.
Explaining the Racial/Ethnic Wealth Gap
Dr. Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Ph.D. & Anna L. Wheatley
The racial/ethnic wealth gap in this country is both huge and persistent. The ratio between the median net worth of white households and African American households is nearly 7:1, while the white-Hispanic ratio is nearly 5:1
Wilhelmina a. leigh, Ph.D. & Melissa R. Wells
The Social Security system provides a lifeline of benefits to workers and their dependents in the event of retirement, disability, and death. Without changes to the current system, however, the Trustees of the system project its insolvency within the coming 75 years.
July, 2013
Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Ph.D. & Melissa R. Wells
Presentation is based on findings from the 2012 Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies National Opinion Poll about Social Security and retirement financial security.
July, 2013
Wilhelmina A. Leigh, Ph.D. & Melissa R. Wells
Financial security during retirement is a goal of all workers. Confidence in being able to achieve this goal, however, varies among adults in the United States. For example, African Americans view their prospects for a financially secure retirement less favorably than do white Americans.