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DreamUp WI is launching its second round of competition
CONTACT: Hilary Shager, (608) 262-7990, hilary.shager@wisc.edu MADISON – DreamUp WI is launching its second round of competition, seeking entrepreneurial ideas to increase the net income of 10,000 Dane County families by 10 percent by the year …
UW–Madison Center for Financial Security partnered with the Wisconsin Employee Trust Fund to survey state Group Health Insurance Program participants about how they are managing out-of-pocket costs
Department of Employee Trust Funds Survey
Congratulations to Former IRP Director John Karl Scholz, named UW–Madison Provost
UW’s Institute for Research on Poverty joins network to fight opioid addiction | Lisa Speckhard Pasque | madison.com
Katherine Magnuson on Baby’s First Years: The study is designed to be a strong test of the effects of a mother receiving $333 a month for her baby’s first three years of life
May 9 Brookings webcast: Tim Smeeding on panel discussing NAS reducing child poverty roadmap he helped create
Katherine Magnuson and Hilary Shager present IRP’s rapid response data and analysis protocols at Midwest Mobility meeting
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UW–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty Joins the National Academy of Medicine in Countering the Opioid Epidemic
CONTACT: Barbara Wolfe, wolfe@lafollette.wisc.edu or Deborah Johnson, deborah.johnson@wisc.edu MADISON — The number of opioid-related deaths—from both prescription opioids and illegal drugs including heroin, fentanyl, and carfentanil—has quadrupled in the last 20 years. At present, the …