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Articles by Fay Walker
Investing in Youth through Direct Cash Transfers
Numerous studies have found that conditional and unconditional cash transfers have positive impacts on schooling, nutrition, and employment outcomes and are associated with reductions in criminal activity, lower rates of income volatility, lower rates of food insecurity, and improved well-being. However, there remain many questions about how cash transfers work, which types work better in which settings, and whether giving funds directly to youth to prevent violence exposure can be successful.
The Cost of Parking
Parking tickets help regulate access to curbside spaces and streamline city services like plowing and street cleaning. But prior research and news investigations have shown that, much like other fines and fees, they can disproportionately burden people of color and those with low incomes. We conducted a preliminary analysis of parking tickets data in Austin, Texas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Portland, Oregon.
More Research Needed to Understand the Rental Market
“Understanding who owns rental units is a first step toward ensuring a supply of affordable, quality rental stock—and to supporting landlords—but very little data on rental property ownership exist,” according to an article by Fay Walker and Eleanor Noble for the Urban Institute.
Understanding Who Owns Rental Stock Can Ensure Tenants and Small Landlords Get the Support They Need
The pandemic hit independent mom-and-pop landlords—who own few properties but a large share of rental units—especially hard. Small landlords are more likely to have tenants of color and tenants who struggle to pay rent, and they are less likely to evict tenants compared with their large landlords or institutional investor counterparts.
How Funding Sources of Cash Transfer Programs Can Affect Participants’ Access to Safety Net Benefits
Direct cash transfer programs are becoming increasingly popular across the US. Privately and publicly funded cash transfer proposals and pilots have launched in more than 60 jurisdictions, from Birmingham to Minneapolis. Interest in these programs stems from the growing understanding that cash transfers lead to positive outcomes. They are an efficient, equitable way to quickly get cash into the hands of people who need it while giving recipients agency over how they spend their money.
Local Data as an Equity Tool
Data intermediaries and backbone organizations, two types of place-based organizations, play a key role in helping their communities attain equitable outcomes, which they can do by building local data capacity, creating data-driven partnerships, and centering community voices.
The Impact of the Expanded Child Tax Credit in Oklahoma
In 2021, the American Rescue Plan Act temporarily expanded the federal child tax credit (CTC) for one year, including some families formerly ineligible for the credit. This could lift 59,000 children in Oklahoma out of poverty annually, cutting the state's 13 percent child poverty rate roughly in half (Acs and Werner 2021). The IRS sent payments automatically to people who had filed tax returns in either 2019 or 2020 or who had claimed an economic impact payment.
Funding Direct Cash Initiatives
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing economic recession have underscored that job quality varies across workers, resulting in uneven impacts on worker health, wealth, and stability. Black and Latine workers, who disproportionately hold low-paying and “essential” jobs, were more likely to feel these negative impacts. Racial disparities in job quality are not new but are long-standing fixtures of the US labor market.
Winter Storm Uri’s Impacts on Houston Neighborhoods Show Why It’s Urgent to Build Equity into Climate Resilience
The increasing regularity of “once in a lifetime” disasters raises questions not only about the effectiveness of state and federal hazard mitigation policies but about which communities continue to bear the brunt of disasters. Winter Storm Uri, which left significant damage across Louisiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Texas in February, showed how preexisting vulnerabilities and recurring climate catastrophes that exacerbate inequities can compound trauma.
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