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Quinn & Pawarasat are on my mind. Evidently they've gotten some money from Brookings, and I think are onto something. Among their demographic research are titles like:

• Confronting Anti-Urban Marketing Stereotypes: A Milwaukee Economic Development Challenge
• Indices of Employment and Economic Well-Being of Families
• Use of Refund Anticipation Loans by Earned Income Tax Credit Filers in Central City Milwaukee Neighborhoods
• Integrating Milwaukee County AFDC Recipients into the Local Labor Market

This is the future of surveillance by the way. Marketing groups, like my favorites Claritas, will evnetually narrow their focus, the cost of demographic research will go down, and smaller business entities will have access to demographics, psychographics and all other kinds of para-personal information.

Now Brookings originally (probably) funded these guys to hear something about the results of welfare reform. I didn't here any sparkling news of this dripping from the fangs of the VWRC recently, so conceivably, the treasure that was buried didn't appear to be the gold they were looking for. But I'm being snarky. This is clearly a fascinating find, and I will most definitely look closer.

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