Urban Institute
2100 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
What
is key constituency or audience?
We direct our
research findings to multiple audiences: policymakers, program
administrators, other researchers and university students, the media,
nonprofit advocacy organizations, stakeholders in the private sector,
and that important segment of the public that follows policy debates
through the daily news.
What
are the agency’s main activities?
The Urban Institute
measures effects, compares options, shows which stakeholders get the
most and least, tests conventional wisdom, reveals trends, and makes
costs, benefits, and risks explicit.
Mission
statement? Key Goals?
The Urban
Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational
organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance
problems facing the nation. It provides information and analysis to
public and private decision-makers to help them address these challenges
and strives to raise citizen understanding of the issues and tradeoffs
in policy making
What
are key im/migration issues of concern to this agency?
Our research
highlights these children, their families, and their legal status. How
immigrants fare in policy shifts, such as the 1996 welfare law, is also
under study. The Urban Institute's First Tuesday series continues with a
timely look at one of the most provocative issues confronting the
nation: the burgeoning population of legal and undocumented immigrants.
Then analysts attuned to immigration policy's political impact will
weigh the role these issues will play in election 2004.
What is the most common basis for
statements issued agency’s research, press releases, etc?
It focuses
primarily on health care, cash assistance and other income benefits,
family structure, childcare, child welfare, immigration, and long-term
care. Researchers monitor program changes and fiscal developments. In
collaboration with Child Trends, the project is studying the well being
of children and families. Our findings provide timely, nonpartisan
information to inform public debate and to assist state and local policy
makers in designing new policies and programs.
Is the agency noticeably pro or con
immigration?
Pro immigration
Any publications?
Assessing the New
Federalism (ANF) publications that use data from the National Survey of
America's Families (NSAF)
Names of key spokespersons/officers?
Leibovitz,
Harold
Communications Director, Weil,
Alan Center Director,
Wang, Kevin
Survey Director
Give at least one citation of this group in a
news report. (use a citation index to research this)
New
York's Legal Immigrants Pay $18.2 Billion in Taxes - Urban Institute
Study First to Fully Document Their Population Size, Incomes, and Taxes
Author(s):
The Urban Institute
Citation URL:
http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=900094
Published:
April 30, 1998
Other issues of
interest?
Web site?
URL?
The Urban Institute
http://www.urban.org/Content/Research/NewFederalism/AboutANF/AboutANF.htm
