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• DreamUp WI initiative to boost middle class in Dane County announces finalists

  February 11, 2020

• IRP Funds Research to Inform Programs and Policies to Boost Youth Employment

  January 13, 2020

• DreamUp WI Announces Semi-Finalist Ideas to Raise Income of Dane County Families

  November 25, 2019

• IRP UW Researchers Presenting Their Research at APPAM Public Policy Conference

  November 1, 2019

• “What happens if we think about new ways to tackle poverty?” Read how IRP is looking forward in UW Letters & Science Magazine

  October 22, 2019

• IRP Names Two Innovative Researchers as Emerging Poverty Scholar Fellows

  October 8, 2019

• Julie Poehlmann-Tynan releases 2nd edition of groundbreaking guide for working with children with incarcerated parents with coauthor J. Mark Eddy

  September 26, 2019

• 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
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