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New Publications and Events

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)

Working Paper: "The Welfare Reforms of the 1990s and the Stratification of Material Well-Being among Low-Income Households with Children" H. Luke Shaefer, University of Michigan and Marci Ybarra, University of Chicago

Working Paper: "The Continuum of Connection: Low-income Families and Economic Support during the Great Recession" Kristin Seefeldt, Indiana University and Meredith Horowski, University of Michigan

Working Paper: "Familial Financial Assistance to Young Adults" Patrick Wightman and Robert Schoeni, University of Michigan and Keith Robinson, University of Texas at Austin

Working Paper: "A Very Uneven Road: US Labor Markets in the Past 30 Years" Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown University and AIR
Marek Hlavac, Harvard University

Working Paper: "Housing Assistance and Disconnection from Welfare and Work: Assessing the Impacts of Public Housing and Tenant-based Rental Subsidies" Andrea Hetling, Rutgers
Hilary Botein, Baruch College

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

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Multimedia

Podcast: U.S. Poverty Rising Again NPC Director Sheldon Danziger discusses the increased U.S. poverty level. Presented as part of the University of Michigan's News Service Weekly Podcast.

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

Podcast: Changing Poverty by Sheldon Danziger, University of Michigan. Presented as part of the University of Michigan's News Service Weekly Podcast.

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

 

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Current Opportunities

Call for Papers: The Transition to Adulthood after the Great Recession
Deadline: May 15, 2012


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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