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Preventing Homelessness: Success Stories
June 22, 2005
Paul Grogan president and CEO, The Boston Foundation
Martha Burt The Urban Institute, DC
Donna Haig Friedman director, Center for Social Policy, UMass
John Wagner commissioner, MA Transitional Assistance
Brian A. Joyce senator, D-MA, MA Committee on Housing
Allison Rice Housing Assistance Corp of Cape Cod, MA

A panel discusses how Massachusetts is attempting to move from managing the problem of homelessness, to identifying ways of eliminating it altogether. Recent successes by state government in eliminating the use of motels for emergency shelter signals that this is a good time to strengthen and expand successful efforts to maintain housing stability for both individuals and families, in order to prevent homelessness in the first place.

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US Supreme Court and Race
Randall Kennedy
01:07:00
Two Harvard legal scholars discuss the complex and often misunderstood history of how decisions by the United States Supreme Court have affected the legal status of racial minorities in America, and ask if the Supreme Court has been a friend or a foe to African Americans.
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I
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Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action for the 21st Century
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Atlanta Neighborhood Summit
Angela Glover Blackwell
00:43:21
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Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part II
Hill Harper
01:31:12
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol
Noam Chomsky: Obama Administration and US Foreign Policy
Noam Chomsky
01:20:00
Noam Chomsky, renowned for both his work in the field of linguistics and as a critic of US policies, offers a critical perspective on the foreign policy of the Obama administration.
Image of Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival
Author: Tony Proscio, Paul Grogan
Publisher: Basic Books (2001)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
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