What’s New
New Publications
Policy Brief #9: Education and Health
Policy Brief #8: The New Face of the Low-Wage Workforce.
Working Paper #2008-15 The Kerner Commission Plus Four Decades: What Has Changed? What Has Not? Reynolds Farley, University of Michigan
Working Paper #2008-14 Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle Kenneth A. Couch, University of Connecticut; Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz
Working Paper #2008-13 Gender Differences in Business Performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey Robert W. Fairlie, University of California, Santa Cruz; Alicia M. Robb, University of California, Santa Cruz
Policy Brief #7: Has Welfare Reform Changed State Expenditure Patterns?
New Events
Policy Forum
"Helping Disconnected and Hard-to-Employ Single Mothers." May 7, 2008. 9:00 am — 11:15 am. The Brookings Institution’s Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington. DC 20036
News
National Poverty Center awarded three-year federal renewal
The National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan has been awarded a federal co-operative research agreement based on a national competition that extends its research, training and dissemination activities through 2010. The NPC began its work in 2002 under a previous federal award. The NPC is directed by Sheldon Danziger, Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy. [Read press release]
The NPC Visiting Scholars Program
Each year, the NPC hosts a small number of faculty, researchers, and policy analysts through our Visiting Scholar Program. We provide visiting scholars with office space, access to computers, and opportunities to collaborate with NPC affiliates and attend events on the University of Michigan campus. Learn
more.
Working and Poor Conference Volume
Working and Poor: How Economic and Policy Changes Are Affecting Low-Wage Workers. Now available from the Russell Sage Foundation.
Multimedia video of Seminar Series lecture: “Work Over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law.” Ron Haskins, The Brookings Institution. Co-sponsored with the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. January 31, 2007. 4-5:30 p.m. Annenberg Auditorium, Room 1120 Weill Hall. See the Video: 72:00 
