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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins argues that California's recent decision to allow a substantial number of its welfare recipients to avoid work requirements will reverse nearly a decade and a half of hard-won progress against parental idleness and child poverty.
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Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A Bay Area economic development nonprofit selected among hundreds of proposals to craft a single ARRA implementation strategy that creates jobs in the short-term and lays the foundation for economic growth and competitiveness in the long-term.
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Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
To accelerate the arrival of regional high speed rail, a collaboration of Bay Area leaders proposes to use ARRA funds on the track and station upgrades that are both necessary for high speed rail but also enhance the safety, capacity, and performance of existing train operations. Brookings experts examine the proposals.
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Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT
California is piloting a regionally-based, public-private partnership-driven, green jobs training program for at-risk youth that leverages ARRA funds with local resources to bring together new collaborations of employers, community colleges, and workforce organizations.
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Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Most California cities are experiencing the worst economic downturn since the Depression; most Texas cities are not. Based on a new Brookings analysis on the nation's largest metropolitan areas, Alan Berube explains that “a lot depends on what a metro area's firms and workers do, and what its housing market did in the lead-up to the crash.”
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Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Chris Leinberger argues that Sacramento, the capital of one of the most hard-pressed states in the country, is an evolving model of development for metropolitan America.
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Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
A new Blueprint paper argues that the rising number of vacant and abandoned properties around the nation requires a more robust drive by the federal government to aid states and localities in land banking. The author, Frank Alexander of Emory University, recommends that federal policy should better capitalize local and regional land banking (the process or policy by which local governments acquire surplus properties and convert them to productive use), encourage code reform and regional collaboration.
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Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Same sex couples are missing from the advertising wars over Proposition 8, the constitutional ballot initiative on whether to retain or reject same-sex marriage in California. As Brookings scholar Jonathan Rauch, the absence of same sex couples from California's same-sex marriage debate makes for an oddly hollow discussion.
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Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In a follow up to their Hamilton Project discussion paper, Pay-As-You-Drive Auto Insurance: A Simple Way to Reduce Driving-Related Harms and Increase Equity, Jason Bordoff and Pascal Noel examine the effects of pay-as-you-drive in California.
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Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage, and ruled that civil unions are not a legally adequate substitution for marriage. Are then civil union supporters the legal equivalent of segregationists? The California court thinks so, writes Benjamin Wittes.
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Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Migration to America's fastest growing cities have tapered off in the last year, according to the latest Census data results. Would-be homebuyers in previously hot housing markets are unable to obtain the homes they desire, leaving them in limbo. William Frey examines the regions across America weathering the downturn.
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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Though Washington is abuzz with talk of a short-term stimulus for the economy, very little is being said about the long-term challenges to American prosperity. Bruce Katz and David Jackson discuss how metropolitan areas are key to addressing those challenges.
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Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In this testimony before the California Assembly Banking and Finance Committee, Matt Fellowes discusses the important opportunity to build wealth among California's lower income working families by expanding access to banking services.
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Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Extending from the outer suburbs of greater Los Angeles to the foothills of the high mountains of Northern California, the "Third California" contains virtually all the state's fast-growing regions—from Riverside-San Bernardino in the south to the burgeoning suburbs around Sacramento. However, this growth comes with serious collective challenges on how to capitalize on job and population increases while addressing workforce and environmental concerns.
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Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT
In this presentation to a citywide convening hosted by Fresno Works for Better Health, Alan Berube examines the causes of concentrated poverty in Fresno, the city with the deepest neighborhood poverty nationwide as noted by Census 2000.
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Sun, 23 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Why are groceries, mortgages and banking more expensive in one of California's poorest cities?
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Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT
One novel approach from the Bay Area may hold lessons for the rest of urban America.
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Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT
This paper tells the story of the San Francisco Working Families Credit, now in its second year, explaining how the program worked in its first year of operation and describing lessons learned and best practices for those considering developing a sim
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Mon, 11 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT
At a low point a decade ago, Southern California now is growing fast, thanks to young newcomers.
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Sun, 01 Aug 2004 00:00:00 GMT
This paper analyzes the shifting geography of concentrated poverty and its impact on the proximity of social services.
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Sun, 09 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This commentary by William Frey in the Orlando Sentinel presents three new, demographically distinct regions--Melting Pots, New Sunbelt, and the Heartland-- as they are being defined by recent national migration patterns.
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Sat, 01 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Metropolitan Los Angeles experienced large-scale spatial reorganization of poverty in recent decades, especially during the 1990s.
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Sat, 01 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Oakland in Focus: This Living Cities databook compiles key city information from Census 2000 in a "one-stop" guide for local leaders.
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Sat, 01 Nov 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Los Angeles in Focus: This Living Cities databook compiles key city information from Census 2000 in a "one-stop" guide for local leaders.
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Wed, 09 Oct 2002 00:00:00 GMT
Getting There: An Action Agenda for Wheels to Work
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Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:00:00 GMT
This report, by the Southern California Studies Center at USC and the Brookings Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, shows that the Los Angeles region is at a crisis point.
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Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by Antonio R. Villaraigosa (Summer 2000)
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Fri, 12 May 2000 00:00:00 GMT
Speech by Philip Angelides, California State Treasurer, May 12, 2000
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Sun, 04 Aug 1996 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Peter Skerry, Nonresident Senior Fellow , the Brookings Institution, in the Los Angeles Times, August 4, 1996