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Exclusionary Housing Leads To Educational 'Segregation' -- Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Education News, David Rothwell, Education and Housing, Zoning, Housing, Exclusionary Zoning, Montgomery County, Brookings Institute, Maryland Education, Dianne Piche, Education, Washington, Rutgers University, Housing Policy, Inclusionary Zoning, Education Reform, D.C., Education News

Tanya McDowell, a Connecticut mother, made headlines last year when she was accused of stealing -- specifically, of stealing an education for her son....

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Cities Getting Hit Hardest Since The Recession: Report

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Unemployment, Income Growth, Great Recession, Employment, IHS Global, Downturn, Financial Crisis, Economic Recovery, Harvard Business School, Brookings Institute, China, Business News

Official recovery or not, it turns out that cities around the world still have a long way to go to get back to where they were before the downturn. ...

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Brookings Is World's Top Think Tank, Report Shows

| Posted 01.19.2012

Read More: Rand, Council on Foreign Relations, Cato Institute, Think Tanks, Video, Center for Strategic and International Studies, DC Think Tanks, D.C. Think Tanks, Center for American Progress, Brookings Institution, Brookings Institute, Cqrc, DC News

By Ambreen Ali Roll Call Staff The Brookings Institution ranked once again as the world's top think tank in an annual survey out today. The inf...

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Suburbs With The Highest Poverty Rates

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Suburbs, Video, Foreclosure Crisis, Sun Belt, Poverty, Cnn Money, Great Recession, Suburban Poverty, Brookings Institute, Poor People, Housing Bubble, Business News

Suburbs have long been associated with white picket fences and manicured lawns. But for many living in suburbia today, the reality is much bleaker. ...

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America's Best Cities For Educated Workers

24/7 Wall St. | Charles B. Stockdale, Michael B. Sauter | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Job Market, Tech, Education, Census Bureau, Workers, Unemployment Rate, Employment, Jobs, Hiring, Brookings Institute, Computer, Qualification, Business News

From 24/7 Wall St.: The job market has remained relatively stagnant since 2009. To make matters worse, the educational requirements of the average U.S...

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Is California Becoming A 'Majority Minority' State?

| Agustin Armendariz | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Majority-Minority-Nation, ?Majority-Minority?, California Minority Population, Brookings Institute, Agustin Armendariz, Los Angeles News

This story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Agustin Armendariz In all but eight of California's 26 metropolitan areas, minorities make up ...

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Minorities Drive Population Growth In Nation's Largest Cities

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Carroll | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Atlanta, William H. Frey, Brookings Institute, Minority Population Growth, Dallas, Black Unemployment, Black Voices News

It's about to get real brown in the United States. According to a new report from the Brookings Institute, non-white people accounted for 98 perce...

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Why Test-Driven Accountability Is Grasping at Straws

John Thompson | Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: School Reform, Brookings Institute, National Academy of Sciences, Standardized Testing, Paul Hill, Tom Kane, Education News

Bill Gates says that his $5 billion experiment in education has not failed. Gates also claims that he trusts in science. That prompted me to reread the National Academy of Sciences' analysis of the failure of test-driven accountability.

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Class Bias, Class Size and Online Learning

Leonie Haimson | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Fordham Institute, Brookings Institute, Class Size, Bill Gates, Chester Finn, Center for American Progress, Education News

It seems that the D.C. think tanks are absolutely dedicated towards further encouraging this trend and destroying any efforts to retain equitable class sizes in our public schools.

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Could You Come Up With An Extra $2000 In 30 Days?

The Huffington Post | Maxwell Strachan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Education Level, Great Recession, Income Level, Poll, Brookings Institute, Financial Shocks, Financially Fragile Households, Business News

What would you do if you had thirty days to find an extra $2,000? That's the question posed by the Brookings Institute in a recent paper, "Financi...

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Cloud Computing: A Shift From IT Luxury to Business Necessity

Ben Kerschberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Cloud computing may have started out as an emerging trend that only IT professionals could get excited about (or fear), but it has quickly become one of the most important paradigm shifts in business today.

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Leapfrogging Barriers to a Two-State Deal

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New America Foundation Middle East Task Force, David Makovsky, Gro Brundtland, Mary Robinson, Grace Machel, Middle East, Martin Indyk, Ela Bhatt, Lakhdar Brahimi, Palestine, Kofi Annan, Martti Ahtisaari, Hamas, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, J Street, Jill Biden, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Lady GaGa, Desmond Tutu, Israel Palestine Security, Israel Palestine Border, Brookings Institute, Israel Palestine Peace, Middle East Peace Process, Politics News

There is a consensus brewing among progressives, big-name foreign policy hands and some neoconservatives that a borders/security strategy is a way to leapfrog over current impediments to progress in Israel and Palestine.

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America Plus Exports Equals Prosperity

Bob Vermeer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: International Trade, Manufacturing, Brookings Institute, Exports, President Obama, American Manufacturing, Business News

If the President can meet his goal of doubling U.S. exports in the next five years, this country will be well on its way to meaningful expansion of the manufacturing base, and stable job growth.

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The MOST Educated Cities In America (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Smartest Cities, Cities With the Most Bachelor's Degrees, Brookings Institute, Slidepollajax, The Most Educated Cities, Most Intelligent Cities, College News

Where do the country's most educated citizens live? In a recent report, the Brookings Institute analyzed 2008 American Community Survey data against 1...

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PHOTOS: 10 Cities That Are Beating The Recession

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Unemployment, Economy, Metro Areas, Employment, Economic Recovery, Brookings Institution, Slidepollajax, Brookings Institute, Metro, Recession, Business News

This recession has been particularly brutal on American cities. Nearly one in five Americans are unemployed -- or can't find enough work --- housing p...

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Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (Not)

Jeff Bocan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeff Bocan, The Midwest, University of Michigan, Institutional Investors, Venture Capital, Endowments, Vc, Beringea, Brookings Institute, Business News

Despite representing roughly 33% of the population, less than 14% of venture capital dollars find their way to the Midwest to convert technology discoveries into new companies and jobs.

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Brookings Institute: Mountain States Slowest Out Of Recession

The Denver Post | Aldo Svaldi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brookings Institute, Recession, Rocky Mountains, Mountain States, Economy, Denver News

The current recovery is challenging the Mountain West's reputation for accelerating out of recessions faster than the rest of the country, according t...

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Jobs for Latinos and Blacks: The Reality of Our Struggle

Janet Murguía | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hardest-Hit Neighborhoods, Brookings Institute, American Worker, White House, Latinos, Nclr, Prepare Workers, President Obama, Stabilize Communities, Jobs, Congress, Blacks, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Improve Lending, National Council of La Raza, Economic Recovery, Americans, Double-Digit-Unemployment, Politics News

Having helped big business and the financial industry, it is now time for the president and the administration to get serious about helping the American worker.

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Obama Job Creation Package DETAILS: See The Presiden's Key Proposals

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jobs Package, Small Business, Unemployment, Obama Jobs Speech, Brookings Institute, Job Creation, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Business News

Key elements of the job creation package President Barack Obama outlined Tuesday: ____...

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Perino Grades Political Pundits: "Zero" For Fairness

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media Relations, Robert Gibbs, Press Secretaries, Perino Media, Perino Rates Press, White House Press, Press White House, Mike McCurry, Brookings Institute, Dana Perino, Politics News

With a fading black eye gracing the right side of her face, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino on Thursday offered advice for her successor as we...

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