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Measuring Performance and Improving Workshop EvaluationsLegal Services NYC (LSNYC) was established in 1967 to fight poverty and seek racial, social, and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers. As part of its mission, LSNYC’s Learning Center offers legal education workshops to attorneys, paralegals, and …
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Evaluation of a Local Economic Development Analysis ToolThe United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) is mandated with making strategic investments in the world’s least developed countries and emerging economies. The UNCDF office in Tanzania is working to develop strategies to improve the economic impact …
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Corner Store Purchases in a Low-Income Urban Community in NYCK. Kiszko, J. Cantor, C. Abrams, C. Ruddock, K. Moltzen, C. Devia, B. McFarline, H. Singh, B. Elbel …
Alumni In Action
Adam Jack DavisWhy did you choose NYU Wagner for graduate school? I wanted to gain practical skills to generate and evaluate policy solutions to problems facing our society. At Wagner I could learn these from accomplished professors and dedicated classmates. Can you …
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Corner store purchases in a low-income urban community in NYC. We assessed purchases made, motivations for shopping, and frequency of shopping at four New York City corner stores (bodegas). Surveys and purchase inventories (n = 779) were collected from consumers at four bodegas in Bronx, NY. We use Chi square tests …
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IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC HOUSING WORK ORDER PROCESSThe New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is the largest landlord in New York City, with about 178,000 apartments across the five boroughs. With its scarce financial resources and limited staffing capability, NYCHA struggles to process the approximately …
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Impacting youth empowermentThe Resilience Advocacy Project (RAP) is a nonprofit organization that uses community impact projects and innovative leadership programs to empower New York City youth to become leaders in the fight against poverty. Although performance measurement and …
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Evaluation of term limits in the New York City CouncilFounded in 1897, Citizens Union is a nonpartisan, good government group dedicated to making democracy work for all New Yorkers. Citizens Union serves as a civic watchdog, combating corruption and fighting for political reform. As there is no recent …
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Survival and Death in New Orleans: An Empirical Look at the Human Impact of KatrinaHurricane Katrina has been interpreted as both a “metaphor” for the racial inequality that characterizes urban America and as a purely “natural” disaster that happened to strike a predominantly Black city. To resolve these conflicting interpretations, the …
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The Socio-economic Empowerment Assessment: Addressing poverty and economic distress in clientsIn this paper, we introduce the Socio-Economic Empowerment Assessment (SEEA), a qualitative assessment that uses an ecological framework to better understand the psychological impact of poverty and financial insecurity. The assessment is designed as a …
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Using cross-curricular, problem-based learning to promote understanding of poverty in urban communitiesThis article describes the use of problem-based learning to teach students about the scope and consequences of urban poverty through an innovative cross-curricular project. We illustrate the process, goals, and tasks of the Community Assessment Project, …
Alumni In Action
Leda BloomfieldWhy did you choose Wagner for graduate school? I wanted to find an urban planning school that connected planning to policy and to real people. I received traditional urban planning training, as well as non-traditional hands-on training in financial …
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Welfare Reform in Miami: Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and NeighborhoodsThe 1996 national welfare reform law introduced a five-year time limit on federally funded cash assistance, imposed tough new work requirements, restricted benefits for noncitizens, and gave states more flexibility to design their welfare programs than in …
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The Reactivation of QueenswayThe Institute for Rational Urban Mobility (IRUM) was seeking to reactivate four-miles of railroad track running through central Queens. The plan called for a track reactivation design solution and the creation of a direct connection from the Midtown …
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Evaluation and Strategic PlanningThe Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) was created as a joint five-year collaboration between New York University (NYU) and the Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) to “provide an integrated home for the advancement of collaborative …
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MUP - City and Community Planningoverview Cities and communities are becoming more innovative: they are using data to optimize services and local decision-making, even as they are being forced to reexamine complex historical and contemporary realities in ways that may generate new …
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Trust, Money, and Power: Lifecycle Dynamics in Alliances between Management Partners and Accountable Care OrganizationsContext Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are a prominent payment and delivery model. Though ACOs are often described as groups of health care providers, nearly 4 in 10 ACOs partner with a management company for services such as financial investment, …
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Commentary on China’s Response to the Coronavirus PandemicAn epidemic is like a fire: its origin and the conditions under which it spreads determine the extent of damage. The initial outbreak and epidemic of Covid-19 began in China in November, 2019, before spreading to the rest of the planet. It seems to us, …
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Event Recap: The FTC and Worker Surveillance: A Conversation with Commissioner Alvaro BedoyaOn November 18, 2024, the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative hosted Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya for a thought-provoking discussion on the impact of workplace surveillance and algorithmic management systems. The event explored the relevance of …
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Improving Infrastructure Finance Through Grant-Loan LinkagesIn recent years, developing countries under fiscal pressure have increasing recognized significant weaknesses in their intergovernmental mechanisms for financing local infrastructure. Many countries are in the process of rationalizing poorly coordinated …
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Race-Based Neighborhood Projection: A Proposed Framework for Understanding New Data on Racial IntegrationThis paper outlines the race-based, neighbourhood projection hypothesis which holds that, in choosing neighbourhoods, households care less about present racial composition than they do about expectations about future neighbourhood conditions, such as …
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Emotional ties that bind: The roles of valence and consistency of group emotion in inferences of cohesiveness and common fateIn three studies, observers based inferences about the cohesiveness and common fate of groups on the emotions expressed by group members. The valence of expressions affected cohesiveness inferences, whereas the consistency of expressions affected …
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Nonprofit and For Profit Partnerships: Rationale and Challenges of Cross-Sector ContractingIncreasingly, nonprofit, for-profits, and public organizations have been cooperating in producing and distributing a wide range of goods and services. In many cases, the partnerships have arisen from the recognition that different activities are best …
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Hunter Johansson (MPA 2018) honored with NASPAA AwardNYU Wagner alumnus, Hunter Johansson (MPA 2018), received the 2022 Alumni Spotlight Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Service from the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA). Hunter Johansson is the founder …