Supporting Progressive Solutions to Problems of
Racism and Poverty
PRRAC is a civil rights policy organization convened by major
civil rights and anti-poverty groups in 1988-89. PRRAC's primary mission is to help connect social
scientists with advocates working on race and poverty issues, and to promote a research-based
advocacy strategy on issues of structural racial inequality. More about PRRAC
Read a surprising new statewide poll commissioned by PRRAC and the Sheff Movement coalition in Connecticut, on public attitudes toward voluntary school integration and interdistrict public school choice.
An "American Murder Mystery" revisited: read a detailed research response by leading scholars to the Atlantic Monthly's misleading recent article linking rising crime in Memphis to families receiving Section 8 vouchers. Plus a selection from the dozens of letters to the editor inspired by the inaccuracies in the Atlantic article.
"Continuing Segregation in Government Housing Programs," by Philip Tegeler, in The
Geography of Opportunity edited by Xavier de Sousa Briggs, published by the Brookings Institution Press. (2005)
