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Measuring the odds on whether Supreme Court will take up California's ... : When the U.S. Supreme Court returns to work next month, it will take up three California cases. But Proposition 8, which overturned California's gay marriage law, isn't on the docket…yet. Ever since California voters passed Prop 8 four years ago ... 89.3 KPCC

Measuring The "Trump Effect" On The GOP Brand For Latino Voters  - Often, Hispanic voters are grouped with black and Asian voters to form a ... We need to campaign among Hispanic , black, Asian, and gay Americans ...

Beyond the Border: Measuring Mexican Cartels' Influence in the US Ultimately, the NDIC report should be taken as a reminder that Mexico's “ drug war ” is not as insulated from the US as many suppose. If Mexican cartels have criminal connections in the country, then it is not hard to imagine that these organizations ...

What the Right Should Learn About Inequality  - And when it comes to measuring the health of America's economy, the truth is that income inequality is simply not a significant problem. Several recent ...

A Happy Conservative Black Woman on the Gay Agenda and Black America  - You think that this study that is measuring the satisfaction levels of the first-time gay sexual experience of young African - American men is what?

Film has a lot to learn from TV when it comes to LGBT representation  - The recent publication of a study measuring the quantity and quality of LGBT representation in mainstream Hollywood cinema has left the industry ...

Poverty trends across the nation staying put  - Measuring poverty for this study is a new approach to identifying America's poor. For most of the nation's history, the government had no threshold to measure  ...

What Thomas Piketty and Larry Summers Don't Tell You About Income Inequality  - Let's talk first about how you're measuring the problem of inequality . I think we .... How might these measures impact income inequality in America ?

The Chilean Lesson & Neoliberal Silence : ... disgraceful blemishes of poverty and whose expectations don't sympathize with social spending compressed by the demands of capitalist accumulation and income inequality so stunning that it locates Chile's Gini coefficient (measuring inequality) in ... Havana Times

Stats NZ opens up consultation on measuring sexual orientation - Stats NZ has recently faced criticism for not collecting data on LGBT people after the census failed to ask about gender or sexual orientation. It was slammed by members of the community, including social activist Aych McArdle. "If you don't count someone, you're almost saying they don't count," they told .

Development with Social Inclusion in Peru : Together with the government of Peru , the World Bank will begin discussions for ... for measuring poverty , a results-assessment methodology for anti- poverty ...

What Washington gets wrong about measuring poverty   - Many national efforts to help lower-income Americans rely on the government's official poverty line, developed in 1965. But that dated statistic includes  ...

Measuring women's empowerment in agriculture : ... IFPRI and Oxford University's Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI). It uses five criteria to measure the empowerment of developing country women in agriculture, and in their own households. Pilot programmes in Bangladesh, Guatemala ... Português | Español | Las américas | Stigmabase | Egaylity

The Changing Geography Of Education, Income Growth And Poverty In America  - In this column, we often rate metropolitan areas for their performance over one year, five or at most 10. But measuring economic and social progress ...

Toward better investments in children in  Latin America Latin America  has been a pioneer in measuring public investments in children. However, some  countries  in the region still don't know how much

Method used to measure poverty in US may be flawed  - Organizations like the Annie E. Casey Foundation and National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) put a lot of effort into measuring poverty in America ,  ...

Race and ethnicity one factor for stable...”  - Race and ethnicity are significant factors in measuring family stability, but family stability within racial groups varied depending on the partisan political ideologies where they lived, researchers have found.