The AALAM/UWMCED Index of African American Well-Being in the Nation’s Largest Metropolitan Areas, 2024 Edition by Marc V. Levine Full Report Five Takeaways
The Hispanic Collaborative/UWMCED Index of Hispanic Well-Being in the Nation’s Largest Metro Areas, 2024 Update by Marc V. Levine Full Report Five Takeaways
Please welcome our new Research Scientist, Dr. Nene Osutei!
Wisconsin is currently home to over 331,000 veterans of the US Armed Forces who have served from World War to the present. In this report, we analyze Wisconsin’s veteran population and identify critical gaps across 4 key categories including education, economy, housing, and health.
Host Andrea Williams speaks with author and UW-Milwaukee Professor Emeritus Dr. Marc Levine about the sobering statistics involving incarceration rates in Wisconsin and the factors that influence them. View at CW18 Milwaukee.
Milwaukee ranks third in the nation for residents without access to running water at home, according to a new report from Kings College London. The report found there are approximately 3,000 households in Milwaukee without plumbing — that means if… Read More
Yaidi Cancel Martinez along with UWM colleagues Lingqian (Ivy) Hu (Urban Planning), Robert Schneider (Urban Planning) and the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission received a $1 Million National Science Foundation Civic Innovation Challenge award . Their project, “User-Centered Mobility Solutions… Read More
In 65 charts and tables, this study examines how Black communities in the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas fare on measures such as residential segregation; income, poverty, and intergenerational economic mobility; employment and earnings; the racial composition of private-sector economic decision-makers; mass incarceration; educational attainment; school segregation; and health care outcomes.
This report, prepared for the African American Leadership Alliance MKE (AALAM), presents an index of African American community well-being in Milwaukee and the nation’s 50 largest metropolitan areas.
As UWM’s faculty and staff adapted to the closure of campus at mid-semester and continued to teach courses online, they also persisted with their research, which for some became the COVID-19 pandemic itself.