Dear Friends and Colleagues, 2021 has been a year like no other in many ways. We have continued to learn how to navigate the COVID-dominated landscape, and while vaccines are now available for more and …
National Poverty Fellows Program Position Description for 2022–2023
The National Poverty Fellows in residence at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in Washington, D.C., will work in the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) and will be assigned to the Division …
IRP Names Five Researchers as Emerging Poverty Scholar Fellows
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty announced the winners of a re-grant program funded by The JPB Foundation aimed at expanding antipoverty research capacity. Through the Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowships, IRP is …
UW–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty Named National Research Center on Poverty and Economic Mobility
CONTACT: Judith Siers-Poisson, Communications Director, sierspoisson@wisc.edu; 608-262-7779 MADISON—The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the nation’s longest-standing center for poverty research, has been awarded a five-year, $10.6 million cooperative agreement to …
2021 Fall IRP Seminar Calendar
IRP Seminars will resume in person meetings this semester, unless otherwise noted. Connection information for virtual seminars will be sent out, in advance, to the IRP Seminar email list. Sign up for IRP seminar email …
Links between Involved Fathers and Positive Effects on Children
Feature Revised June 2021 | No. 5-2020 More than 72 million men in the United States have at least one biological child. That’s 60 percent of all men in the country. Some are married or …
IRP Statement of Commitment to Racial and Social Justice
The past year has been one of reckoning for the United States. While not new, the outrage over the murder of black citizens has made the systemic institutional violence and oppression people of color experience …
‘Legal Tune Up’ tool helps Wisconsinites clear eligible criminal records
IRP welcomes Dr. Mina Addo as the new National Poverty Fellow
IRP is pleased to announce that Dr. Mina Addo has been selected as the National Poverty Fellow for 2021–2022. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Social Welfare at the University of Pennsylvania and her research interests …
Child Support Policy Research Agreement, October 2020–December 2022
This research agreement between IRP and the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (Daniel R. Meyer and Judith Bartfeld, Principal Investigators) supports data collection and research related to the child support system. The primary projects …