Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Jobs and economic development in minority communities : realities, challenges, and innovation / Paul Ong and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris
  • Metropolitan dispersion and diversity : implications for community economic development / Evelyn Blumenberg
  • Impacts of the new social policy regime / Douglas Houston and Paul Ong
  • The regional nexus : the promise and risk of community-based approaches to metropolitan equity / Manuel Pastor, Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka
  • Workforce development in minority communities / Michael A. Stoll
  • Employment opportunities beyond the 'hood : African American and Hispanic applicants in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia / Michela M. Zonta
  • Economic development in Latino communities : incorporating marginal and immigrant workers / Abel Valenzuela Jr.
  • The role of Black-owned businesses in Black community development / Thomas D. Boston
  • New York City's Asian immigrant economies : community development needs and challenges / Tarry Hum
  • Indian gaming as community economic development / Ted Jojola and Paul Ong
  • Social networks and social capital : Latinos in pico-union / Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Judy Hutchinson
  • Linking housing to community economic development with community benefits agreements : the case of the Figueroa corridor coalition for economic justice / Jacqueline Leavitt
  • Synchronizing social services with labor market participation : implications for community economic development in minority neighborhoods / Lois M. Takahashi
  • Conclusion : Lessons for community economic development / Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Paul Ong.