Secondary research on poverty (Version 5/1/2015)
RMAPI
Workgroup co-chair and participant pre-read instructions: The table below includes a broad array of reading resources
on the topic of poverty. You are not
being asked to read all of this material.
It is recommended that you read the “Rethinking Poverty” article first
followed by the other articles highlighted in green before your scheduled
workgroup workshop (to be provided by Bob Thompson). The remaining resources are provided for your
reference and discretionary reading based on interest and relevance to your
workgroup area. The intent of this
reading material is to help establish a foundational base of common language,
concepts and ideas that would serve as helpful input to workgroup activities. Co-chairs are free to suggest further
readings to their workgroups if desired.
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Title
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Source
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Description
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· A Framework for Understanding Poverty – A Cognitive Approach
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· Toxic Charity
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Books
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Rethinking Poverty (by the Stanford Social Innovation Review)
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PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE FIRST
Discusses the latest research on the impact of
trauma on brain development in young children and executive functioning
skills in adults. It explains how compromised
executive function challenges people’s ability to navigate their way out of
poverty and how social interventions can help.
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Annie E. Casey Foundation: Creating Opportunities for Families Report
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A two generational approach to poverty is discussed. Also discussed is the state of poverty by
U.S. state, poverty drivers and strategies and recommendations for addressing
the causes of poverty.
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Asset-based approach to building a
stronger community
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Asset-based toolkit - Home
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Recommend
reading “An introduction to asset mapping” and/or Community Building
Principles and Action Steps
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Mobilizing Assets Segments video clips (14)
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These are a bit
protracted but have many useful ideas for building a community-based approach
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Introduction to "Building Communities from the
Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community's Assets,"
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This is an abstracted
summary of the above videos. Covers
the basics but missing the illuminating examples that deepen understanding.
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Mapping Community Assets Workbook
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Needs-based versus Asset-based in a nutshell
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Asset Mapping - Eight Steps to Increase and Support
Resident Engagement Table comparison
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Benchmarking
Rochester’s Poverty-2015 Update (by Ed Doherty)
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This report provides a comparative analysis of
Rochester against other similar sized cities in the US. It then provides a deeper analysis of
Rochester poverty demographics, poverty concentrations and current state data
and information in the areas such as education, employment, disability and
country of birth.
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Child Care Subsidies in
Monroe County – An Analysis of Need, Availability and Trend (a report by The Center
for Governmental Research report-CGR)
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This is an extensive report highlighting the state
of child care subsidies need and provision at the New York State and Monroe
County Rochester City and surrounding town levels. This overall context enables gaps and
disparities to be identified and policy questions asked.
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Childhood Poverty in
New York State
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Covers the state of poverty and an in depth study on
how poverty is measured, proposed changes to measurement and expected
impacts.
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Crittenton Mobility
Mentoring Whitepaper
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This whitepaper goes beyond the overview handout to
include detailing the Mobility Mentor theory of change each area of
intervention, scientific research underpinnings, mentoring approach for
moving people from dependence to self-sufficiency, achieving a dual focus of
crisis management and goal attainment, establishing support for achieving
goals, case management versus Mobility Mentoring and measuring for successful
outcomes.
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Crittenton Mobility
Mentoring versus Case Management
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http://tinyurl.com/nawrh54
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This is a 1 page comparison contrasting tradition
case management with Mobility Mentoring using by Crittenton Women’s Union
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Expanding opportunity in America (by Paul Ryan)
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The important role of government policy as a
structural support to poverty.
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Disrupting Poverty
Paper (by
Paul G. Allen)
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http://tinyurl.com/kow65pc
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Proposes a framework for addressing poverty through
an asset-based approach. Assets are in
two interdependent areas: Building individual capabilities and building
communities of opportunity.
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Engaging Women in Trauma Informed Peer
Support – A Guidebook
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Provides peer supporters with the understanding,
tools, and resources needed to engage in culturally responsive,
trauma-informed peer support relationships with women.
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Education: Poverty and Education: Finding
the Way Forward
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ETS Report: One
aim of this report is to review the relationship between poverty and
educational and other important life outcomes and to provide a clearer and
more nuanced picture of poverty in America, as well as an understanding of
how government attempts to address poverty — particularly from an educational
perspective. Another aim is to consider the important issue of how poverty is
officially measured in the United States and explore several additional
aspects of income and poverty that broaden the perspective.
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Family Independence Initiative
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The Family
Independence Initiative (FII) is an approach to economic mobility that begins
with the assumption that we have underestimated the capacity of families in
low--‐income neighborhoods to improve their financial and general
well--‐being. FII is structured around the idea that what families most need
to improve their economic circumstances is a sense of control over their
daily lives, an awareness of the options available to them, a diverse and
active social network that provides support and expands those options, and
access to an array of tangible opportunities to improve their situations,
such as capital to start a small business. Rather than import these assets
into a community, FII begins by identifying where they already exist.
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Fits and Starts – The
Difficult path for Working Singe Parent
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Details how an increase in worker income for poor
families can translate into less money to live on…sometimes causing a
downward cliff effect in family economic resources.
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(The) Growth and Spread
of Concentrated Poverty in America 2008-2012 Report (referenced in the above
RBJ article)
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This is a detailed report on poverty demographics
with a focus on poverty concentrations and the spread and rebalancing of
those concentrations between urban and suburban areas on a national
level. The report is a call to action
to address the growing concentrations of poverty in suburbs before they
become the severe concentrations of poverty (i.e., > 40% concentration) we
now have in urban areas. This report includes an abundance of graphs and
charts illustrating increasing trends in poverty between 2000 and 2012.
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How Britain Cut Child
Poverty In Half 10 Years
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These articles describe how Britain decreased
childhood poverty from 3.4 million in 1999 to 1.7 million in 2007/2008. Strategies employed to achieve results are
presented.
Britain used a combination of
two-generation-based strategies to make work pay and support working families
with young children:
1)
Raised minimum
wage to 50% of median wage
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Raised income
of families with children
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Expand child
care tax credits
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Working Tax
Credit (equivalent to US Earned Income Tax Credit) paid throughout year
3)
Invested in
early childhood programs
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Universal Pre-K
for 3 and 4 year-olds
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Pre-school for
disadvantaged 2 year-olds
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Expanded paid
maternity leave
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Home visiting
nurse services for 0-3 year-olds in disadvantaged communities
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Living Wage Calculator
for Rochester
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Provides tables that compare living wages to poverty
wages based on various family compositions.
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Measuring Poverty by the Council on Children and Families
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Separate
handout
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This is a summary of the Standard Poverty Measure
and the Supplemental Poverty Measure.
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Moving 1000 People Out of Poverty Every 1000 Days
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This is a key reading covering the implementation of
an asset-based approach to addressing poverty in Jacksonville, Florida. The approach is led by leaders from the
public, private, civic and non-profit sectors. Best practice principles, leadership
practices and methodology practices are described including an asset-based
theory of change framework, common performance measures, the program model
and program, results.
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Poverty In Rochester, N.Y – Challenges
and Opportunities – Congresswomen Louise Slaughter
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handout
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This document outlines Congresswoman Slaughter’s current
work in Congress to address poverty at home and around the country, as well
as to engage local stakeholders who share the same goal: ending poverty. The
Congresswoman’s approach to addressing poverty is organized in four priority
areas:
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Create and
Protect Jobs
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Train and
Educate Our Local Students and Workers
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Engage High
Risk and Vulnerable Communities
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Preserve the
Social Safety Net
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Reducing Poverty in Rochester - An
International Scan of Options to Consider (CGR report)
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This is a comprehensive study CGR completed at the
request of the Rochester United Way (12/2014). It covers the state of poverty, causes and
recommendations applying to the 9 county Rochester region. It also reviews current anti-poverty
policies and interventions in the areas of child care, housing, education,
workforce development and income supports and supplements.
Coverage of No Wrong Door policy is covered
on P 28.
Conclusions and recommendations are provided on
pages 33 through 38.
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UK Childhood Poverty
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Lessons learned that are transferrable to the US.
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Structural Racism and Community Building
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This document discusses concepts and data showing
the relationship between race, poverty and disadvantage.
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Suburban poverty levels
spike (Rochester
Business Journal article)
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Introduces and summarizes the report listed
immediately below from a Rochester perspective.
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Trauma – How Childhood
Trauma affects Health Across a Lifetime
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15 minute TED Talk on the insidious effects of
childhood trauma on early childhood cognitive development and physical
health.
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Trauma and Poverty: A Case of The Chicken and The Egg: Cheryl
Sharp & Sharon Wise
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Webinar: An intimate look at Trauma Informed Care
from Sharon Wise who lived it, rose up from it and now is a successful
speaker/ consultant in the trauma-informed care domain. Go to the web-link, scroll down to the
video link "To view the video click here". Fill out a short
'registration' form to obtain immediate access to the content. There
are two presenters in this Webinar. The first one is mostly factual
provide some useful concepts if you are interested and have the time.
The second presentation starting at 32:59 minutes is presented by Sharon
Wise.
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White Privilege
Checklist
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This checklist is about understanding and
recognizing racial privilege.
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Wilson Foundation SHiFT
Study
(Service and Housing
Interventions for Families in Transition)
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Full report:
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A 30 month longitudinal study of mothers in
emergency shelter, transitional housing, and permanent supportive housing
programs.
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Work versus Poverty Tradeoff
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Describes the
work versus pay tradeoff for NYS and other states. The current welfare system provides such a
high level of benefits that it acts as a disincentive for work. This
research makes a case for revising welfare policy to incentivize work for
higher pay to offset current economic disincentives. Description of various Federal/State public
welfare programs are summarized.
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Working Poor (Profile of)
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Source: US Bureau
of Labor Statistics
2012 Report on
characteristics and trends of the working poor
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