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• Katherine Magnuson assumes IRP directorship as Lawrence Berger’s term ends

  August 13, 2019

• Institute for Research on Poverty expands its health policy research initiatives

  August 1, 2019

• Congratulations to our DreamUp Wisconsin teams: Schmidt Futures announces winners of the 2019 competition

  June 27, 2019

• Wisconsin poverty rate fell overall and for children, but rose for elderly

  June 24, 2019

• David Pate on Milwaukee—most segregated, most incarcerated area in U.S.—declaration of racism as a public health crisis

  June 3, 2019

• DreamUp WI is launching its second round of competition

  May 24, 2019

• 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

  May 23, 2019

• Congratulations to Former IRP Director John Karl Scholz, named UW–Madison Provost

  May 13, 2019

• UW’s Institute for Research on Poverty joins network to fight opioid addiction | Lisa Speckhard Pasque | madison.com

  May 10, 2019

• 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 7, 2019

• May 9 Brookings webcast: Tim Smeeding on panel discussing NAS reducing child poverty roadmap he helped create

  May 2, 2019

• Katherine Magnuson and Hilary Shager present IRP’s rapid response data and analysis protocols at Midwest Mobility meeting

  May 2, 2019

• UW–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty Joins the National Academy of Medicine in Countering the Opioid Epidemic

  April 30, 2019

• IRP joins UW School of Medicine & Public Health & School of Human Ecology to establish research center for mother-baby health funded by the CDC and headed by Deborah Ehrenthal

  April 17, 2019

• Final Evaluation Findings Released on Demonstration Designed to Identify Effective Policies to Help Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children

  March 14, 2019

• Timothy Smeeding Q&A on National Academies U.S. child poverty reduction plan he helped devise

  March 7, 2019

• Two DreamUp Wisconsin Teams Advance in Alliance for the American Dream Competition

  February 6, 2019

• Tim Smeeding on extreme cold’s effects on low-income families: “If they’re forced not to work it can put a real crimp in their budgets”

  January 31, 2019

• IRP regrets the passing of Erik Olin Wright, distinguished sociologist whose work shed light on the forces that drive inequality and how societies can work to become more just and humane

  January 25, 2019

• “A safety net that has a frayed bottom makes people feel more financially vulnerable than they already are,” J. Michael Collins discusses the impact of the partial government shutdown on low-income Americans

  January 22, 2019

• Reports Released on Final Implementation Findings from Demonstration Designed to Identify Effective Policies to Help Noncustodial Parents Support Their Children

  January 15, 2019

• New initiative to boost middle class in Dane County announces finalists

  December 13, 2018

• AEIdeas blog cites David Autor and colleagues in suggesting that technology sector’s rising corporate concentration benefits the economy by boosting productivity, wages, and jobs

  December 4, 2018

• John Mullahy’s working paper proposes research strategies for estimating effects of a treatment or intervention when there are multiple outcomes of interest

  December 4, 2018

• Jennifer Doleac, David Figlio and colleagues’ working paper on students’ physiological response to high-stakes testing in context of the chronic stress of socioeconomic disadvantage

  December 4, 2018
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