Browsing by Author "Oh, Yun Taek"

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    Assessing Access to Healthy Food in Brooklyn Park
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2016) Loots, Natalie; Oh, Yun Taek
    This project was completed as part of the 2016-2017 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Brooklyn Park. Based on a series of focus groups with residents who live along the Zane Ave corridor in Brooklyn Park that were intended to assess barriers to healthy living, the City learned that lack of access to healthy food was a challenge for many residents. The goal of this project was to determine the types of barriers these and other residents face in accessing healthy, culturally appropriate food. City of Brooklyn Park project lead John Nerge worked with two students in Geoff Maas’s PA 5271 course to determine the location of food outlets along the corridor, and assessed potential transportation and other barriers to accessing those outlets. The final report is available.
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    Origins and Consequences of the Humphrey Hawkins Act of 1978
    (2017) Dumas, William; Erdenemandakh, Jargalmaa; Karongo, Lawrence; Oh, Yun Taek; Teed, Derek; Wang, Wenchen; Watkins, Jonathan
    The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978, commonly known as the Humphrey-Hawkins Act shifted U.S. economic policy from a focus on price stability to a dual mandate which added an employment goal. The Act emended the Employment Act of 1946 to include specific numeric goals for inflation and employment while maintaining the one could not be sacrificed to achieve the other. This paper uses several statistical analysis methods to determine if there is a quantifiable effect on price stability or employment due to the passing of the Act along with discussion of any change in Fed behavior. Further comparisons are made to selected developed countries with central banking systems that have single mandates along with a compared dual mandate country.