Confronting Neighborhood Segregation in the U.S.

In an article for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Pat Sharkey—Professor of Sociology and member of the Marron Institute's faculty advisory committee—offers a number of suggestions for addressing neighborhood segregation and its negative consequences.

Any agenda for economic mobility has to consider ways to confront residential segregation in America. There are two sets of approaches to confronting economic segregation and its impacts. The first set focuses on ways to invest in neighborhoods in order to make the consequences of segregation less severe, and the second set focuses on ways to reduce the level of segregation in American neighborhoods directly.

Read Sharkey's full article here

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