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• Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum, 2018: Rethinking Welfare: Promoting Opportunity and Independence – Register to join the 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

• Hilary Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach cited in Washington Post for new findings: U.S. now spends less in real dollars on very poor children than it did 30 years ago

  May 18, 2018

• Schmidt Futures awards UW-Madison $1.5 million to forge new pathways to boosting the middle class

  May 17, 2018

• Campus-wide UW–Community Collaboration and Research Competition: Kickoff event Engaging Faculty and Staff in the Alliance for the American Dream Initiative

  May 11, 2018

• Wisconsin First Lady Tonette Walker advocates for trauma-informed care at foster care seminar

  May 7, 2018

• Christopher Taber and colleagues’ research on graduation and college-attendance benefits of Catholic high schools cited as new Catholic school opens in troubled Baltimore neighborhood

  May 7, 2018

• Tonya Brito selected as a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar

  April 13, 2018

• New RSF journal double-issue reimagines “Anti-Poverty Policy Initiatives for the U.S.”

  April 13, 2018
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