MTO In The News
2008
- “Want to Cut Crime? It Takes a Neighborhood.” A Washington Post article from February 24, 2008. Tim Harford.
2007
- “Sending
poor kids to middle-class schools doesn't fix a thing; It
doesn't produce better test scores or improve dropout rates.” A Chicago Sun Times article from
October 7, 2007. Joanne
Jacobs. To access the
- “Neighborhoods' Effect On Grades Challenged.” A Washington Post article from August 14, 2007. Jay Mathews.
- Housing and the Poor. A New York Times Letter to the Editor by William Julius Wilson. August 4, 2007.
- “Obama Says He, Too, Is a Poverty Fighter.” A Washington Post article from July 19, 2007. Alec MacGillis.
- “On Poverty, Edwards Faces Old Hurdles.” A Washington Post article from May 7, 2007. Alec MacGillis.
2006
- “How Much Does a Neighborhood Affect the Poor?” A Wall Street Journal article from December 28, 2006. Jon E. Hilsenrath and Rafael Gerena-Morales.
- “Concentrated Poverty in New Orleans and Other American Cities.” A Chronicle of Higher Education article from August 4, 2006. Bruce Katz.
- “Katrina's Tide Carries Many to Hopeful Shores.” A New York Times article from April 23, 2006. Jason DeParle.
- “Bratton’s ‘broken windows’; No matter what you've heard, the chief's policing method wastes precious funds.” A Los Angeles Times column from April 20, 2006. Bernard E. Harcourt. To access the L.A. Times and order the article, click here.
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on
2005
- “An Uprooted Underclass, Under the Microscope.” A New York Times article from September 25, 2005. Leslie Kaufman.
- “Katrina's Silver Lining.” A New York Times article from September 8, 2005. David Brooks.
- “Ruling gives vindication to Schmoke: After the former mayor testifies, a judge says the city did not engage in intentional racial discrimination during his administration.” A Baltimore Sun article from January 20, 2005. Eric Seigel. To access the Baltimore Sun and order the article, click here.
- “Suburbs
fight efforts to move the poor.” A Baltimore
Sun article from January 20, 2005. Childs
2004
- “Decades after injustices were exposed by the civil rights movement, sentiment keeps blacks and whites living apart.” A Baltimore Sun column from January 18, 2004. Michael Hill. To access the Baltimore Sun and order the article, click here.
2003
- “Ghetto Miasma; Enough To Make You Sick?” A New York Times article from October 12, 2003. Helen Epstein.
- “Housing Complex: A Scholar Asks Whether We Really Have to Destroy Public Housing in Order to Save It.” A Boston Globe article from March 9, 2003. Chris Berdik. To access the Boston Globe archives, click here.
2002
- “Equality of Opportunity and the Importance of Place: Summary of a Workshop”. A publication produced by the Center for Social and Economic Studies, a Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council, 2002.
- “Moving to Opportunity”. A piece in Online Opinion, January 15, 2002. Andrew Leigh, Justin Wolfers.
2001
- “The
Geography of Life's Chances”. An article in the Federal Reserve Bank
of
- “Fear in the Ghetto and Its Ramifications for Parents”. An article in the JCPR Policy Briefs series, September 2001. Jeffrey Kling, Jeffrey Liebman, Lawrence Katz.
- “Movin' on Up?” An article from the Monitor of Psychology from July/August 2001. Tori DeAngelis.
- “A Voucher Success.” A Boston Globe report from May 22, 2001. David Warsh. To access the abstract or order the article, click here.
- “Economic View: By Listening, 3 Economists Show that Slums Hurt the Poor. “ A Sunday New York Times story from February 18, 2001. Louis Uchitelle.
- Poverty
Research News. A
January-February 2001 edition devoted to Moving to
2000
- “Lessons: Offering Poor An Alternative To Vouchers.” A New York Times column from October 18, 2000. Richard Rothstein.
- “Breaking Away -- Out of Public Housing” An NBC Dateline documentary from August 11, 2000. Maria Shriver. The complete text of the documentary is available, as well as a special interactive edition (best viewed with Internet Explorer) that includes the complete video footage.
- “Can Housing Vouchers Help Poor Children?” A Brookings Institution Policy Brief from July 2000. Greg Duncan and Jens Ludwig.
- “From Ghetto to White Picket Fence.” A CBS Evening News report from June 5, 2000. John Roberts.
- “In Baltimore, Getting a Lease on Middle-Class Life.” A Washington Post front page story from May 10, 2000. Amy Goldstein.
- “What No School Can Do.” A New York Times column from January 16, 2000. James Traub.
1999
- “Housing,
1997
- “A Social Experiment in Pulling Up Stakes; Aid: Does neighborhood affect economic and social success? Five cities relocate poor families to find out.” A Los Angeles Times report from September 23, 1997. Larry Gordon. To access the L.A. Times and order the article, click here.
1995
- “Housing Voucher Test in Maryland Is Scuttled by a Political Firestorm.” A New York Times article from March 28, 1995. Karen DeWitt
1994
- “Foes Kill Housing Plan Funds: Low-income renters call the move racist.” An article in the Chicago Tribune from December 15, 1994. Laurie Abraham. To access the Chicago Tribune archives and order the article, click here.
- “A Fresh Start Housing: the Moving to Opportunity Program will take families out of the projects to see if a new environment helps them succeed.” A Los Angeles Times story from November 8, 1994. Larry Gordon. To access the L.A. Times and order the article, click here.
- “Where Should Poor Families Live?”. A Chicago Tribune report from July 23, 1994. Laurie Abraham. To access the Chicago Tribune archives and order the article, click here.
- “40 Years After Brown, Segregation Persists.” A New York Times article from May 18, 1994.
- “Hostility Toward Relocating the Poor is a Matter of Race.” A Chicago Tribune story from April 27, 1994. Clarence Page. To access the Chicago Tribune archives and order the article, click here.
- “Clinton Wages A Quiet War Against Poverty.” A New York Times article from March 30, 1994. Jason DeParle.
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