Who Can and Should Fight Poverty: An IRP Seminar Series

During the 2007–2008 academic year, leading scholars will visit IRP to examine the role of organizations and institutions outside of government in maintaining and improving the well-being of American families and children. This year's thematic seminar series, “Who Can and Should Fight Poverty?” will feature seminars addressing the role of business, labor, faith-based organizations and academics in addressing poverty in the context of major shifts in social policy that have evolved since the early 1990s.

The series is part of IRP's ongoing focus on the reorganization of social policy. Other related activities during this year include a working conference addressing whether and how faith-based organizations contribute to positive outcomes for children and families and a research conference addressing the implications of the increased diversity of nongovernmental entities in the provision of social services on the design, management, and execution of social policy.

12:15-1:30, 8417 Social Science Building

November 15, 2007

Financial Innovations and Savings: Strategies for Increasing Private Saving by Poor Families
Peter Tufano, Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management and Senior Associate Dean and Director of Faculty Development, Harvard Business School
[Paper available in pdf format, PowerPoint Presentation in pdf format]

February 21, 2008

Poverty Research and the Anti-Poverty Agenda
Alice O'Connor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara

March 27, 2008

What States and Localities Can do to Strengthen Labor and Fight Poverty
Richard Freeman, Herbert S. Ascherman Professor of Economics and Faculty Director of the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard University, and Director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research

April 24, 2008

The Role of the Faith Factor in Crime Prevention, Prisoner Reentry, and Poverty
Byron Johnson, Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University