Policy Bridge Research And Reports http://www.policy-bridge.org/reports.php en-usSat, 04 Feb 2012 21:29:02 -0500The issue of health and health care can no longer be relagated to social science and political discussion. Health has become as much an issue of economics as all other recognized factors that drive and economy (education, productivity, skill workforce, ethttp://www.policy-bridge.org/http://www.policy-bridge.org/uploaded_files/PolicyBridge%20Wealth%20of%20Health%20report%2011_2011_file_1320339556.pdfThu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0400The American City Agenda: Ohio was developed to support and inform the region's efforts to advance a strong, sustainable future. The recommendations in the report are the product of a collabortive nonpartisan process initiated by Governor Ted Strickland ahttp://www.policy-bridge.org/story.php?content=105Fri, 31 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500PolicyBridge releases "Immigration - Path to Prosperity or Calamity?" It has been said that the United States is a country of immigrants.Since the turn of the 20th century,thousands immigrants have found their way to cities like Cleveland to start new livhttp://www.policy-bridge.org/http://www.policy-bridge.org/uploaded_files/Immigration_file_1293110850.pdfThu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500Northeast 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 unhttp://www.policy-bridge.org/http://www.policy-bridge.org/uploaded_files/Building%20a%20Better%20Bridge%5B1%5D_file_1275399259.pdfTue, 01 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0400http://www.policy-bridge.org/http://www.policy-bridge.org/uploaded_files/Education%20Pays%20Final%20Report_file_1269088020.pdfFri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0400Many 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 houshttp://www.policy-bridge.org/http://www.policy-bridge.org/uploaded_files/NeighborhoodReport_10_05_09_file_1255630039.pdfTue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400As America ushers in its first African-American president, this unprecedented change comes amid unprecedented challenges...http://www.policy-bridge.org/hope.pdfThu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500The loss of African-American male potential is, in fact, a loss of income that is crippling the regional and state economies.http://www.policy-bridge.org/Untapped_Potential.pdfMon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500As 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.http://www.policy-bridge.org/PolicyBridge-The%20Job%20Prescription.pdfTue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0400How Anti-Educational Messages in the Media, at Home, and on the Street Hold Back African-American Youthhttp://www.policy-bridge.org/PolicyBridge_final_report%20on%20Culture%205-11-07.pdfTue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400