<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Reports
</title><description>Policy Bridge Research And Reports
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</link><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:27:36 -0400</lastBuildDate><item><title>PolicyBridge releases "Building a Better Bridge" policy brief</title><description>Northeast Ohio is at a crossroads.  Although the City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County has faced significant challenges in recent years with issues such as education, foreclosures, government fragmentation/corruption and population decline, the area is un</description><link>http://www.policy-bridge.org/http://www.policy-bridge.org/uploaded_files/Building%20a%20Better%20Bridge%5B1%5D_file_1275399259.pdf</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Education Pays - Get Yours - FINAL REPORT</title><description></description><link>http://www.policy-bridge.org/http://www.policy-bridge.org/uploaded_files/Education%20Pays%20Final%20Report_file_1269088020.pdf</link><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Rebuilding Blocks</title><description>Many Cleveland neighborhoods have fallen victim to a virulent consumptive disease. The national, and even international, media and politicians have largely misdiagnosed
the illness, seeing the outward symptoms of blocks pockmarked by empty, decaying hous</description><link>http://www.policy-bridge.org/http://www.policy-bridge.org/uploaded_files/NeighborhoodReport_10_05_09_file_1255630039.pdf</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Hope for Urban America</title><description>As America ushers in its first African-American president, this unprecedented change comes amid unprecedented challenges...</description><link>http://www.policy-bridge.org/hope.pdf</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Untapped Potential</title><description>The loss of African-American male potential is, in fact, a loss of income that is crippling the regional and state economies.</description><link>http://www.policy-bridge.org/Untapped_Potential.pdf</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>The Job Prescription</title><description>As the region and the state strive to prepare workers to compete in the new economy, a local research group warns that huge numbers of people are likely to be left behind.

Tens of thousands of black men are not only unemployed but nearly unemployable.</description><link>http://www.policy-bridge.org/PolicyBridge-The%20Job%20Prescription.pdf</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>The Rap on Culture</title><description>How Anti-Educational Messages in the Media, at Home, and on the Street Hold Back African-American Youth</description><link>http://www.policy-bridge.org/PolicyBridge_final_report%20on%20Culture%205-11-07.pdf</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate></item></channel></rss>        