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• IRP mourns the loss of Devah Pager, whose seminal research was credited with shaping a national program to help newly released prisoners get jobs

  November 12, 2018

• IRP Campus Researchers Presenting Their Research at APPAM Conference

  November 5, 2018

• IRP Extramural Small Grants 2019–2020 Call for Applications (Due: 1/13/2019)

  November 5, 2018

• IRP launches two new poverty studies initiatives with funding from The JPB Foundation

  November 2, 2018

• IRP regrets the passing of Mercile Lee, who oversaw the programs that enabled IRP to host poverty studies scholars of color for some 20 years

  November 1, 2018

• Urban Institute Webinar: Introducing the Annual Survey of Refugees Public Use Dataset, Urban Institute and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Wednesday, October 31

  October 29, 2018

• DreamUp Wisconsin selects 11 initial proposals for boosting the middle class in Dane County

  October 22, 2018

• Philip Jefferson interview on poverty, declining labor share, and the importance of racial diversity in economics

  October 11, 2018

• UW–Madison call for abstracts: Contemporary Social Problems Initiative to complement IRP DreamUp

  October 8, 2018

• Eric Grodsky says systemic poverty plays large role in Wisconsin’s persistently high achievement gap

  October 4, 2018

• New report finds large poverty disparities among persons of color compared to whites in Wisconsin and especially Milwaukee County

  September 27, 2018

• Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum, 2018: Rethinking Welfare: Promoting Opportunity and Independence – livestream

  September 18, 2018

• Census Bureau announces 2017 national poverty rate remained high at 12.3%, Tim Smeeding in NYT remarks, “The fruits of the recovery are not being spread around evenly.”

  September 13, 2018

• University of Wisconsin–Madison Joins Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty

  September 13, 2018

• National Poverty Fellows Program Call for Applications for 2019–2020 (Due 11/28/2018)

  September 12, 2018

• Careers in Poverty Research Webinar, September 28

  September 12, 2018

• One in five households reported reducing or forgoing basic necessities like food and medicine to pay an energy bill: Public invited to a free 9/25 campus forum on energy insecurity

  September 6, 2018

• Laura Dresser and Tim Smeeding on campaign for $15 minimum wage in Wisconsin

  September 6, 2018

• Maria Cancian, Andrew Feldman & Robert Shea op-ed urges Senate to pass legislation supporting evidence-based policymaking

  August 31, 2018

• Eric Grodsky leads project to help kindergarteners adjust, in partnership between with Madison school district and community members

  August 7, 2018

• Pajarita Charles and Julie-Poehlmann-Tynan on how incarceration of a parent affects children

  July 16, 2018

• Lisa Gennetian on new Baby’s First Years study to test causal impact of income in the first 3 years of life

  July 10, 2018

• Study finds Wisconsin poverty rate increased in 2016 despite jobs growth

  June 8, 2018

• Jennifer Laird brief on the importance of SNAP for American-citizen children of immigrants

  June 1, 2018

• Vox podcast with Timothy Smeeding (20-minute mark) and Rourke O’Brien (38-minute mark) about new NCHS report on record low U.S. fertility rate

  June 1, 2018
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