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New Publications and Events

Working Paper: "White-Collar Woes: Later-Career Job Displacement in the “New Risk Economy.”" Ruby Mendenhall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago; Laurel J. Spindel, University of Chicago; and Cassandra Hart, Northwestern University.

Policy Brief: Persisting Hardships in Southeast Michigan after the Great Recession (Adobe PDF)

Policy Brief: Divorce and Women’s Risk of Health Insurance Loss

Policy Brief: Receipt of Public Benefits and Private Support among Low-income Households with Children after the Great Recession (Adobe PDF)

Policy Brief: Employment Problems in the Wake of the Great Recession: Findings from the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study (Adobe PDF)

Policy Brief: Housing Instability and Health: Findings from the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study (Adobe PDF)

Policy Brief: Extreme Poverty in the United States, 1996 to 2011 (Adobe PDF)

Conference Materials: The Long-run Impacts of Early Life Events III

Conference Materials: Rethinking the Safety Net after the Great Recession

Policy Brief: Sharing Lessons from the First Conditional Cash Transfer Program in the United States

Policy Brief: Reconsidering Culture and Poverty

Policy Brief: The Health Effects of Social and Economic Policy: The Promise and Challenge for Research and Policy

Policy Brief: Social and Economic Policies as Health Policy: Moving Towards a New Approach to Improving Health in America

New Book: “Changing Poverty, Changing Policies” Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger (editors)

Policy Brief: Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement

Policy Brief: The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial & Ethnic Disparities Persist

Conference Papers: Long-run Impact of Early Life Events II

Funded Research: Immigration and Poverty

Click here for current syllabi and reading lists from NPC-affiliated faculty

Multimedia

Video: Michigan's recession and recovery: Opportunities for the research, non-profit, and civic engagement communities

Video: One nation, (in)divisible: The future of inequality in America debate by Jared Bernstein and Charles Murray - moderated by Clarence Page

Video:  Desegregation and (Un)Equal Opportunity, by NPC Research Affiliate Rucker Johnson, University of California - Berkeley

Video: Poverty and Antipoverty Policies Before and After the Great Recession by Sheldon Danziger. Presented at the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty Symposia on Aug. 8, 2012.

Video/Transcript: Insufficient Funds: Savings, Assets, Credit and Banking Among Low-Income Households

Video/Audio: More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City by William Julius Wilson, Harvard University

Video/Audio: Working after Welfare: How Women Balance Jobs and Family in the Wake of Welfare Reform by Kristin Seefeldt, University of Michigan

Video/Audio: Charting a Course for the Next Generation by Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund

Video/Audio: Jobs and Housing: Trust, Distrust, and Social Class in the Black Community. Hosted as part of the University of Michigan's 2008 Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium on January 21st, 2008.

 

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Current Opportunities

Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
Visiting Scholars Program

Application Deadline: June 28, 2013


Recently Funded Projects

University of Michigan Poverty Research Grants

Research Related to TANF Reauthorization

The Effects of Recessions and Recoveries on the Well-Being of Workers and Families

Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Analytic Research

 

 

 

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