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Center for Urban Renewal and Education
THE CENTER FOR URBAN RENEWAL AND EDUCATION (CURE) is a public policy institute devoted to developing and promulgating policy solutions focused on America’s distressed zip codes. CURE was founded in 1995 by Star Parker and is based in Washington, D.C. To learn more, please visit curepolicy.org.
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Read MoreAn incisive collection of essays that reveals the past, present, and future strength of Black America as the best hope for a nation that has lost faith in itself.
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The transgender movement has hit breakneck speed. In the space of a year, it’s gone from something that most Americans had never heard of to a cause claiming the mantle of civil rights.
Many cities have struggled with the decline of key industries, from Philadelphia’s shipyards to New York’s textile industry, but Detroit—which is now in bankruptcy—is both a victim of the decline of the Michigan automobile industry and a cause of it.
Starting in the late 1960s, the United States suffered the biggest rise in violent crime in its history. Aside from the movement for black civil rights, it is difficult to think of a phenomenon that had a more profound effect on American life in the last third of the 20th century.
In Please Stop Helping Us, Jason L. Riley examines how well-intentioned welfare programs are in fact holding black Americans back.
This historic narrative combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusionary zoning, with the idea that simple low-cost housing—a poor side of town—helps those of modest means build financial assets and join in the local democratic process.
Racial preference policies first came on the national scene as a response to black poverty and alienation in America as dramatically revealed in the destructive urban riots of the late 1960s.