For the Press
IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. It is nonprofit and nonpartisan. It is based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As one of three National 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 Wisconsin as well as the nation.
Press Releases
- Poverty-Research Grants Explore Ways to Build Workers' Employment Potential in a Slow Economy (April 12, 2013)
- Can Children Overcome Their Parents' Disadvantage? (June 20, 2012)
- Wisconsin Families Kept from Poverty Despite State's "Jobless Recovery" (April 25, 2012)
- Grants Awarded to Emerging Scholars to Study Family Complexity, Poverty, & Policy (April 20, 2012)