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Metro Raise: Boosting the Earned Income Tax Credit to Help Metropolitan Workers and Families [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Argues for increasing the Earned Income Tax Credit and expanding its options in order to help low-income workers and families meet rising costs and to ensure more inclusive economic growth.
Alan Berube   +2 more
core  

Socioeconomic and Indigenous school segregation in Australia: The role of institutional differentiation and fees

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract School segregation is an international problem undermining the performance and equity of education systems. Australia's secondary schooling system offers international insights into the causes of segregation owing to it being one of the most segregated in the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development, its long history of school ...
Michael G. Sciffer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Results of monitoring at the British library excavation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The main phase of excavation for the basements of the British Library at St Pancras, London, was completed in 1987. The project included basements extending up to 25 m deep, through the London Clay and into the Lambeth Group. The excavations were formed
Simpson, Brian, Vardanega, Paul J.
core   +2 more sources

Multilevel analysis of ethnic clustering across local schools: Exploring group dynamics

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines ethnic clustering patterns across English secondary schools from 2010 to 2018 using National Pupil Database data and multilevel modelling. Despite concerns about increased segregation following educational reforms, findings reveal a general decline in ethnic concentration across all groups during this period.
Yiyang Gao
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment and Analysis of Spatial Expansion of Tabriz Metropolitan Using Multi Temporal Satellite Images [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه جغرافیا و برنامه‌ریزی, 2016
Tabriz metropolitan expansion has caused a large valuable land to go under construction. Therefor, this applied and experimental research was done to achieve goal investigation urban sprawl and land use changes in Tabriz metropolitan using multi temporal
Rasool Ghorbani   +2 more
doaj  

O Controle do uso do solo para proteção dos Mananciais

open access: yesPós: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da FAUUSP, 1993
The paper presents the urbanistics effects of the legislation for water resources protection at São Paulo metropolitan area. Furthermore, the policy is ineffective to control the urban bonderings expansion, because it denies the previous preparation for ...
Antonio Claudio M. L. Moreira
doaj   +1 more source

Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

City and Countryside Revisited. Comparative rent movements in London and the South-East, 1580-1914 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Economic historians have traditionally argued that urban growth in England was driven primarily by prior improvements in agricultural supply in the two centuries before the industrial revolution.
Gibson, James M.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Think Global, Act Local? Fortune 500 Business Strategies for Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11)

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of business towards achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been well established. However, SDG contextualization continues to pose a conundrum, particularly for firms operating in multiple contexts. This becomes even more problematic in the case of SDG 11, the only goal in the sustainable development agenda directly
Andreas Georgiou
wiley   +1 more source

Correlations between Socioeconomic Drivers and Indicators of Urban Expansion: Evidence from the Heavily Urbanised Shanghai Metropolitan Area, China

open access: yes, 2017
Rapid urban expansion resulting in increased impervious surfaces causes a series of urban environmental problems, e.g., the urban heat island and urban forest fragmentation.
Jinghui Li   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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