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Tracking The Progress Of Welfare Reform Quickly: A Model For Measuring Neighborhood Health And Change, Prepared For The Brookings Institution, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
Tracking The Progress Of Welfare Reform Quickly: A Model For Measuring Neighborhood Health And Change, Prepared For The Brookings Institution, Lois M. Quinn, John Pawasarat
ETI Publications
Research on the progress of welfare reform commonly relies on multi-year state and national evaluations and surveys, leaving city officials and practitioners hungry for data on the immediate impacts of welfare changes on their inner-city neighborhoods. This study describes the Milwaukee neighborhood indicators project, an effort directed by the Employment and Training Institute, which tries to fill this information gap. Using a variety of geographically specific data sources from state, county, and city agencies, the project provides a more timely set of economic indicators for the city of Milwaukee and its neighborhoods than do other sources. The indicators allow local …
Confronting Anti-Urban Marketing Stereotypes: A Milwaukee Economic Development Challenge, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
Confronting Anti-Urban Marketing Stereotypes: A Milwaukee Economic Development Challenge, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn
ETI Publications
Working with the Helen Bader Foundation and the Milwaukee Department of City Development, the Employment and Training Institute has developed purchasing power profiles for Milwaukee neighborhoods and commercial districts. These profiles utilize current state income tax records, local property files, business phone listings, state driver's license files, motor vehicle records, and state and federal mortgage lending databases to identify the purchasing power that comes from urban population densities and concentrations of income and to describe economic trends of interest to retailers and other commercial businesses. As part of the project, ETI examined the information reports and stereotypes about Milwaukee neighborhoods …
Purchasing Power Profile: Zipcode 53217, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn, Frank Stetzer
Purchasing Power Profile: Zipcode 53217, John Pawasarat, Lois M. Quinn, Frank Stetzer
ETI Publications
While central city residents often have much lower family incomes than suburban residents, they typically spend much of their income on consumer purchases, providing a strong base of retail purchasing. To help identify the economic assets of central city neighborhoods and to further employment opportunities for city residents the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Employment and Training Institute prepared state-of-the-art purchasing power estimates of consumer expenditures and retail sales leakage/surplus by neighborhood. The ETI drill downs were designed to help determine the diversity of the workforce and to further economic development for underserved communities and for neighborhoods with concentrations of residents of …