Events
- October
- October 21How Distance Affects Takeup of Food Assistance: Evidence from SNAP Offices and SNAP-Participating StoresInstitute for Research on Poverty Seminar - Marianne Bitler12:15 PM, 8417 Sewell Social Sciences
- October 27How have the Working Poor and Working Class Fared since the Great Recession?Institute for Research on Poverty Webinar - Erica Groshen, Timothy Smeeding, Fenaba Addo, William Darity, Jr., Jasmine Simington, and Jeff Smith12:00 PM, Online
- October 28Welfare vs Work Under a Negative Income Tax: Evidence from the Gary, Seattle, Denver, & Manitoba Income Maintenance ExpInstitute for Research on Poverty Virtual Seminar - Chris Riddell12:15 PM, Online, connection information will be sent to those on the IRP Seminar list in advance.
Employment Opportunity
IRP Administrative Associate Director – application closes 10/27/2021 11:55 PM CDT
Highlights from the National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility
This Forum investigated inequitable outcomes by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex, and ability and how federal, state, and local human services policies, systems, and providers contribute to it. Participants also discussed how policy, practice, data, and research can combat systemic inequities created in and outside of human services. Inequities continue to create barriers to success and well-being for many individuals and communities in the United States. The field of human services can play a crucial role in advancing equity for these populations, but to do so must identify the ways in which it creates or perpetuates disparities.
New Resources
Tax Policy For Low-Income Americans – Web Conference
Organized by Bradley Hardy and James P. Ziliak
Early Impacts of the Expanded Child Tax Credit
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Zachary Parolin, Samuel Hammond, and Timothy Smeeding
Health Coverage, Access, Cost, & Quality
Research and analysis projects focus on health care access, cost, financing, health system performance, quality — in short: What works? Who benefits? Who pays?
The Alliance for the American Dream: DreamUp Wisconsin
Coronavirus & Poverty Research Centers
The Institute for Research on Poverty and our national collaborative of peer poverty research centers are especially aware of how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the most vulnerable members of society and straining the social services system.
Families and individuals with low incomes struggle during normal times, but this unprecedented modern crisis has intensified their hardship while also creating barriers to seeking help.
Visit our new Poverty & Covid-19 page for links to resources and emerging research in response to the pandemic and our new Teach & Learn page for poverty-research distance learning materials by IRP and our peer centers.