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Institute for Research on Poverty
IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. As one of three Area Poverty
Research Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it has a particular interest in poverty and family welfare in the Midwest.
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Seminars
October 16, 2008: Community Resilience in New Orleans East: Deploying the Cultural Toolkit within a Vietnamese-American Community, Emily Chamlee-Wright

October 23, 2008: Working Poverty in Michigan: Magnitudes, Socio-Demographic Determinants, and Their Changes between 1998 and 2007, Udaya Wagle

October 30, 2008: The Impact of Fatness on Disability Insurance Application by the Non-Elderly, Maximilian Schmeiser

Monday, November 10, 2008: Vanishing Dreams: A 15 Year Reappraisal, Andrew M. Sum

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Recent Publications

Measuring Job Content: Skills, Technology, and Management Practices

Handel, M. J.

These 13 papers were presented at the IRP conference Changing Poverty, held May 29-30, 2008, at UW–Madison

What Does It Mean to Be Poor in a Rich Society? Haveman, R.; Poverty Politics and Policy, Bane, M. J.; Health Care for the Poor: For Whom, What Care, and Whose Responsibility? Swartz, K.; Workforce Development as an Antipoverty Strategy: What Do We Know? What Should We Do? Holzer, H. J.; Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children, Jacob, B. A. & Ludwig, J.; The Role of Family Policies in Anti-Poverty Policy, Waldfogel, J.; Trends in Income Support, Scholz, J. K., Moffitt, R. & Cowan, B.; Mobility in the United States in Comparative Perspective, Jäntti, M.; Enduring Influences of Childhood Poverty, Magnuson, K. & Votruba-Drzal, E.; Immigration and Poverty in the United States, Raphael, S. & Smolensky, E. ; Family Structure, Childbearing, and Parental Employment: Implications for the Level and Trend in Poverty, Cancian, M. & Reed, D.; Economic Change and the Structure of Opportunity for Less-Skilled Workers, Blank, R. M.; Poverty Levels and Trends in Comparative Perspective, Meyer, D. R. & Wallace, G. L.

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