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- Business and Nonprofit Organizations Join tpt to Produce Series on Region's Socio-Economic Disparities
- "Close the Gap" will air on Channel 2 and Channel 17 beginning April 6 MINNEAPOLIS & ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The Itasca Project, a business-led coalition that supports initiatives that advance the Twin Cities region's economic competitiveness and quality of life, has joined with the McKnight Foundation, Greater Twin...
- Research articles 2008-03-20
- Bill Clinton admits 'regret' on crack cocaine sentencing
- PHILADELPHIA -- It was an expression of regret that didn't seem to register with the knot of journalists who came to cover the event -- an apology that deserves more than fleeting attention. In a keynote address last week at a University of Pennsylvania symposium commemorating...
- Research articles 2008-03-04
- NBC-LEO leaders take strong message to Congress.
- Efforts to strengthen and stabilize America's housing finance system, increase federal action to reduce disparity and increase access to health care, and support federal programs aimed at crime intervention, prevention and law enforcement were among the top issues that members of the National Black Caucus of...
- Research articles 2008-02-04
- Despite Efforts, Significant Racial Disparities in Cancer Therapy Still Exist.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-8 January 2008-Yale University: Despite Efforts, Significant Racial Disparities in Cancer Therapy Still ExistC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08012008 New Haven, Conn. -- Black patients are significantly less likely than their white counterparts to receive therapy for various kinds...
- Research articles 2008-01-08
- Unfair disparity in cocaine sentencing
- MOVEMENT toward more rational U.S. drug policies took two small steps this month with sound rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Sentencing Commission. Now, the larger fix for sentencing disparities for crack and powder cocaine rests with Congress, which has sole authority to alter minimum sentences. ...
- Research articles 2007-12-31
- For equal treatment under the law
- THE U.S. Sentencing Commission is taking welcome steps toward ending an unjust disparity in federal sentences for cocaine-related crimes. For two decades, people convicted of possessing or selling crack cocaine have been treated to much harsher penalties than those involved with powder cocaine. Under federal law, it...
- Research articles 2007-11-26
- LEDBETTER V. GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO.: SUPREME COURT PLACES ROADBLOCK IN FRONT OF TITLE VII PAY DISCRIMINATION PLAINTIFFS
- During her nineteen-year tenure at a Goodyear Tire & Rubber plant, Lilly Ledbetter did not suspect that she was being paid at a lesser rate than her male counterparts and that this might be due to sex discrimination. For most of that time she was an area manager, a position...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Using a theoretical ecospace to quantify the ecological diversity of Paleozoic and modern marine biotas
- Abstract.- The process of evolution hinders our ability to make large-scale ecological comparisons-such as those encompassing marine biotas spanning the Phanerozoic-because the compared entities are taxonomically and morphologically dissimilar. One solution is to focus instead on life habits, which are repeatedly discovered by taxa because of convergence. Such an approach...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Race issues and research: panel to discuss the increasing complexity of American race relations.
- In the U.S., few discussion topics can energize or galvanize an audience as quickly and as powerfully as those related to race and racism. Attendees of this year's Case Western Reserve University Research ShowCASE will have an excellent opportunity to engage in one of the oldest...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- Reducing Racial and Ethnic Gaps in Health Care.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-4 January 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: Reducing Racial and Ethnic Gaps in Health CareC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:04012007 New Haven, Conn. - Carol Weitzman, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine, is a recipient of a two-year Robert Wood...
- Research articles 2007-01-04
- To help reduce disparities in scientific resources, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and more than 200 science and technology publishers, societies, and associations launched an initiative to make global research in the en
- To help reduce disparities in scientific resources, the United Nations Environment Programme UNEP, Yale University, and more than 200 science and technology publishers, societies, and associations launched an initiative to make global research in the environmental sciences available online to scientists, researchers, and policymakers in the...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- HMDA data show more high-priced loans in 2005
- The overall incidence of higher-priced lending was significantly higher in 2005 than in 2004, while the differences in the incidence of higher-priced lending between racial and ethnic groups also increased during the same period, according to a government analysis of Home Mortgage Disclosure Act HMDA data. The report from...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Are Women Achieving Equity in Chemistry? Dissolving Disparity and Catalyzing Change
- Are women achieving equity in chemistry?; dissolving disparity and catalyzing change. American Chemical Society. Meeting (226th: 2003: New York, N.Y.) Ed. by Cecilia H. Marzabadi et al. American Chemical Society 2006 163 pages $99.50 Hardcover ACS symposium series; 929 QD20 Ten...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Statement by Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Chairman and President, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and Former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare on New Supreme Court Ruling on Crack, Powder Cocaine Sente
- "I applaud the Supreme Court decision in the Kimbrough case which gives federal judges discretion to set shorter prison terms for crack-cocaine crimes in order to reduce the disparity with crimes involving cocaine powder. I urge federal courts to exercise this discretion and to review prior sentences that they have...
- Research articles 2007-12-10
- Meharry-State Farm Alliance Hosts D.C. National Safety Summit to Address Motor Vehicle Occupant Safety Among Diverse Populations
- NASHVILLE, Tenn. & WASHINGTON -- Results of Four-year Research Project to be announced at Safety Summit in Washington, DC; NHTSA Administrator, Chairman of the NTSB, Director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control and Safety Experts to Offer Community Intervention Model A newly-released study from...
- Research articles 2006-06-29
- United States v. Pho: reasons and reasonableness in post-Booker appellate review.
- In United States v. Pho, (1) the federal government appealed two crack-cocaine sentences that the district court had justified on its perception of unfairness in the 100:1 crack-to-powder sentencing disparity. Though the fairness of the 100:1 ratio had been a dead issue, the judge in these...
- Research articles 2006-06-01
- 'The Covenant with Black America' reaches No. 1 on New York Times Best Seller list
- The Covenant with Black America, a collection of essays by Black Americans that examines such issues as education, health care and judicial disparities, has become the No. 1 nonfiction, paperback book in America. With an introduction by media personality Tavis Smiley, the book is No. 1 on the New...
- Research articles 2006-05-08
- Relationship between incarceration and race disparities in U.S. HIV rates explored.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-6 December 2005-YALE UNIVERSITY: Relationship between incarceration and race disparities in U.S. HIV rates exploredC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06122005 New Haven, Conn. -- There may be a relationship between incarceration and race disparities in American HIV rates, Yale researchers...
- Research articles 2005-12-06
- Inaugural Conference to Challenge Diabetes Disparities Among Latinos.
- Byline: University of Illinois at Chicago CHICAGO,Sept. 2 AScribe Newswire -- Latino diabetes experts and representatives of community-based organizations, faith communities, businesses and public health agencies will gather in Atlanta Sept. 20-22 for the First National Hispanic/ Latino Diabetes Forum. The...
- Research articles 2005-09-02
- Discretionary pricing may be biggest HMDA risk
- MORTGAGE LENDERS SHOULD TAKE STEPS now to learn and understand the data they have submitted to the Federal Reserve in compliance with the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act HMDA. Why? Because ignorance is not bliss when it comes to HMDA data. Lenders should expect their data can and will be...
- Research articles 2005-08-01
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