IRP is pleased to announce that Dr. Mina Addo has been selected as the National Poverty Fellow for 2021–2022. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Social Welfare at the University of Pennsylvania and her research interests …
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IRP Researcher Steven Cook Honored with Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research: Critical Research Support
IRP is pleased to announce that Researcher Steven Cook has received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research: Critical Research Support. For more than two decades, Steve has played a critical role in IRP’s mission …
IRP Honors the Life and Legacy of Research Affiliate Peter Gottschalk
Peter Gottschalk of Portland Oregon, age 78, died on March 25. He was Professor of Economics at Boston College from 1987 until his retirement from teaching, but not from research, in 2010. He also taught …
IRP Honors the Life and Legacy of Research Affiliate Franklin D. Wilson
Message from the Director
Dear Friends and Colleagues, 2020 has been a difficult year. The COVID-19 pandemic is causing twin health and economic crises, and at the same time the nation is coming to terms with its deep-seated racial …
Wisconsin Poverty Rate Rose in 2018 Overall, for Children, and for the Elderly
CONTACT: Timothy Smeeding, smeeding@lafollette.wisc.edu, (608) 890-1317 MADISON—University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers found discouraging results in the latest Wisconsin poverty analysis using a state-specific measure. The overall statewide poverty rate using the Wisconsin Poverty Measure (WPM) rose …
IRP Names Two Innovative Researchers As Emerging Poverty Scholar Fellows
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty announced the winners of a re-grant program funded by The JPB Foundation aimed at expanding antipoverty research capacity. Through the Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowships, IRP is supporting …
UW–Madison Teams Top National Competition to Help Middle Class
By Rebecca Jourdan Schwei Two teams from the University of Wisconsin–Madison won a combined $1.5 million in provisional funding in a national competition to help boost the middle class. The two teams, Connect Rx Wisconsin …
A Statement from University Poverty Research Center Directors on Mead’s “Poverty and Culture”
July 30, 2020 A recent commentary, “Poverty and Culture,” written by Professor Lawrence Mead and published in Society, a journal edited by Jonathan Imber, has caused great concern and anger within the poverty research community. …
A Statement from Former Directors of the Institute for Research on Poverty About Research on Poverty and Race
A recently published opinion piece, “Poverty and Culture,” written by Professor Lawrence Mead and published in Society, has caused great concern within the poverty research community. While the editor has since withdrawn the article, the …