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Report: Small Business Lending in Baltimore Down
Small business lending in Baltimore has fallen off over the past 10 years even as deposits continued to grow, a Johns Hopkins University report found. Much of the changes have been brought about through a number of post-recession changes, including mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry that led to Baltimore becoming a “branch town”…
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Financing Baltimore’s Growth: Strengthening Lending to Small Businesses
In 2017, the Johns Hopkins University 21st Century Cities Initiative published a report on the capacity of the financing system to support small businesses and startups in Baltimore City. The report covered both venture capital and loan capital flowing to small firms located in Baltimore, documenting $500-600 million in annual investments.
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Placelinking: An Emergent Approach to Improving Economic Mobility Outcomes
Neighborhoods, including their schools, housing stock, access to jobs, and social capital, impact the long-term economic success of children. Thanks to Raj Chetty’s and Nathan Hendren’s groundbreaking research, the ability to quantify this impact is now possible.
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Promoting Inclusive Communities: How Cities Can Utilize Local Housing Policy to Combat Economic Segregation
Significant attention has been paid in recent years to the alarming increase in household income inequality in the United States. However, neighborhood income inequality has been rising at an even faster rate.
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Poverty & Race: Reflections on Kerner at 50
The Poverty & Race Research Action Council’s (PRRAC) most recent issue of Poverty & Race featured reflections from several speakers at our Race and Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 conference held in March 2018 in Baltimore and Berkeley, including Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Leana Wen.
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Opportunity Zones Are Knocking: Will Baltimore Be Prepared?
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 established a new, federal tax incentive for Opportunity Zones intended to spur investment in low-income communities. For cities like Baltimore, Opportunity Zones have the potential to be a valuable resource for inclusive growth.
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21st Century Neighborhoods 2017 Symposium Recap
More than 350 city leaders and experts from across the U.S. attended the second annual 21st Century Neighborhoods Symposium in Baltimore, MD on Dec. 4-5, 2017.
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Conference Reflects on Racial Inequality in U.S.
The Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative partnered with the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley) to host a conference titled “Race and Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50” on Feb. 28 and March 1.
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Workshop on Inequality and Social Policy with Laura Tach
We are pleased to invite you to the Johns Hopkins Workshop on Social Policy and Inequality with Laura Tach, Associate Professor of Policy Analysis and Management and Sociology at Cornell University, on Thursday, March 15 from 4:00-5:30PM in Gilman Hall, Room 130G on the Homewood Campus. Laura’s research focuses on poverty and social policy.
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Daniels: Lack of Progress on Race, Equity in U.S. Over Past Half Century Implicates ‘All of Us’
In the summer of 1967, as racial tensions fueled by economic inequality boiled over in violent riots across the nation, President Lyndon B. Johnson tasked a small, bipartisan commission with answering three key questions: What happened? Why did it happen? And what could be done to prevent it from happening again?
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21st Century Neighborhoods Symposium: New Mayors Video Highlights
Last December’s 21st Century Neighborhoods Symposium in Baltimore kicked off with a captivating conversation among new mayors and their visions for 21st century American cities. In 2017, more than 40 new mayors took office in U.S. cities with populations of 100,000 or more, bringing with them fresh ideas and renewed energy for shaping cities into hubs…
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Can Baby Bonds Help Close Baltimore’s Wealth Gap?
The National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color is a project that assesses the level of, and nuances of, wealth disparities in cities across the country. At the 21st Century Neighborhoods 2017 Symposium, the projects lead investigators, Dr. Darrick Hamilton and Dr. Sandy Darity discussed their current work on wealth disparities in Baltimore.
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Race and Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50 Recap
A recap of the conference exploring race, segregation, and inequality 50 years after the release of the historic Kerner Commission Report.
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Mikulski on Economic Disparity in Baltimore: ‘We have to know who we are and own what we are becoming’
Retired Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels spoke to 350 city leaders, scholars, experts and advocates from across the U.S. at a symposium focused on discussing urban issues like economic segregation.
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Race and Inequality in America: The Kerner Commission at 50
A conference exploring race, segregation, and inequality 50 years after the release of the historic Kerner Commission Report.
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