What this study is illuminating is that racial residential segregation is the mechanism that sorts people into environments that are healthy, that are well resourced, and have access to strong amenities and public goods and those that have underinvested, disinvested( neighborhoods).

Stephen Menendian

Our index is a good diagnostic instrument for trying to get a sense of how countries are faring and how states are faring against each other, but it's not the final word on these issues.

Stephen Menendian

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Integrate and invest. We need to resurface the reality that racial segregation is really the core cause of racial inequality, you can't zero out racial inequality in a highly segregated society.

Stephen Menendian

Today, you really have two kinds of racial residential segregation, within large cities, you have racially identifiable neighborhoods and schools. You also have suburbs that are White and affluent, and then suburbs that are heavily non-White and much poorer.

Stephen Menendian

We are in a dire spot with respect to race in the United States, we have a greater awareness that there is clearly a problem of structural racial inequality, but there's a lack of awareness of the nature of the problem.

Stephen Menendian