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The Institute on Race & Poverty (IRP) investigates the ways that policies and practices disproportionately affect people of color and the disadvantaged. A core purpose for IRP’s work is to ensure that people have access to opportunity. Another is to help the places where people live develop in ways that both promote access to opportunity and help maintain regional stability.
The Institute on Race & Poverty does not currently have any open positions.
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04-01-2008
This new five-part documentary series examines the widening gaps between Minnesotans and demonstrates what communities and individuals are doing to contend with these disparities.
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12-06-2007
Minnesota's schools are rapidly resegregating along racial and economic lines.
This trend hurts all of the state's students, along with their families, their neighborhoods, and the region's present and future workforce.
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11-16-2007
A recent Minnpost.com article, "North Minneapolis schools face crisis of confidence" discusses the difficult education decisions being faced by families in North Minneapolis.
In the article, IRP Executive Director Myron Orfield responded to the increasing segregation of North Minneapolis schools. "In 1992, nine Twin Cities schools were deemed segregated. By 2002, the number had risen to 102, and there are many more now." Not only are schools more segregated, in North Minneapolis, there has also been an accelerated increase in the concentration of children of color from low-income homes. The effect: "Racially and socially isolated schools destroy children's lives."
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