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Research reports on various subjects are detailed below.

Unemployment and Joblessness in New York City, 2004: Better, But Still a Long Way to Go
By Dr. Mark Levitan, Community Service Society of New York

The 2005 Political Typology: Beyond Red vs. Blue
Pew Research Center

Familes Drawn Together by Communication Revolution
Pew Research Center

The Strength of Internet Ties
Pew Internet & American Life Project

State of Black New Jersey: The Past as Present (2005)
New Jersey Public Policy Research Institute

State of Black Health in New Jersey
By Dr. Denise V. Rodgers, M.D., New Jersey Public Policy Research Institute

Environmental Justice: A New Social Movement
By Valorie Caffe, New Jersey Public Policy Research Institute

A Failure of Initiative
Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, 109th Congress

The Role of STD Detection and Treatment in HIV Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Declining Employment among Young Black Less-Educated Men: The Role of Incarceration and Child Support
National Poverty Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Trends in Self-Employment Among White and Black Men: 1910-1990
By Robert W. Fairlie and Bruce D. Meyer

A Crisis of Black Male Employment: Unemployment and Joblessness in New York City, 2003
By Dr. Mark Levitan, Community Service Society of New York

Every Door Closed: Barriers Facing Parents with Criminal Records
Center for Law and Social Policy

Charting the Safe and Successful Return of Prisoners to the Community
Re-Entry Policy Council

The Improving Relative Status of Black Men
By Kenneth Couch and Mary C. Daly, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Racial Discrimination in Labor Markets with Posted Wages
By Kevin Lang, Michael Manove and William T. Dickens

High School Reform and Black Male Students: Limits and Possibilities of Policy and Practice
By Will J. Jordan and Robert Cooper, Delivered at the Symposium on African American Male Achievement at Howard University, December 4, 2000.

Cultural Issues Related to High School Reform: Deciphering the Case of Black Males
By Will J. Jordan and Robert Cooper, December 2002.

Black Males and Violence
By Dr. William Oliver

The Efffects of Male Incarceration Dynamics on AIDS Infection Rates among African-American Women and Men
By Raphael C. Johnson and Steven Raphael, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley, July 2005.

Reconsidering the African American Adolescent Male: An Exercise in Responsible Psychology
By David Wall Rice

The Mark of a Criminal Record
By Devah Pager, Northwestern University, 2003

African-American/Black Market Profile
Magazine Publishers of America, 2004

Left Behind in the Labor Market: Recent Employment Trends Among Young Black Men
By Paul Offner and Harry Holzer, Georgetown Public Policy Institute (Center on Urban & Metropolitan Studies, The Brookings Institution), April 2002.

Middle Class, Yet Black: A Review Essay
By Mary Pattillo-McCoy, Northwestern University, Departments of Sociology and African American Studies, Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research

Prison Payoff: The Role of Politics in the Incarceration Boom
By Brigette Sarabi and Edwin Bender, Western Prison Project

The Role of Permanent Income and Demographics in Black/White Differences in Wealth
By Joseph G. Altonji Ulrich Doraszelski, September 2003

Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: A Content Analysis of Children's Television
By Kristen Fyfe, Parent's Television Council, March 2006

Public Education and Black Male Students: A State Report Card
The Schott Foundation for Public Education, 2005

The Crisis of the Young African American Male and the Criminal Justice System
By Marc Mauer, The Sentencing Project, prepared for the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, 1999

Hard Times Amid Prosperity: A Current Profile of Poverty in New Jersey
The Poverty Research Institute, Legal Services of New Jersey, 2000

Health Care in New York State Prisons
Prison Visiting Committee, Correctional Association of New York, February 2000

A Portrait of Prisoner Reentry in New Jersey
Justice Policy Center, Urban Institute, 2003

Prison as Industry
New York State Coalition for Criminal Justice, 1994

Employment Opportunities for Ex-Offenders in New Jersey
John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, 2003

Dissecting the Achievement Gap
A New York City Council Education Committee report examining racial disparities in Regents diploma rates in city high schools

Poverty, Race and Policy
A December 2006 report issues by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and authored by Dr. Ivory A. Toldson and Dr. Elsie L. Scott.

The Attitudes and Behaviors of Young Black Americans: Research Summary
This is a unique survey released in February 2007 detailing the attitudes and needs of Black youth;part of an ongoing focus of the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Class.

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