Past NPC Events - 2006
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Conference: "Income Volatility and Implications for Food Assistance Programs II" November 16-17, 2006. Washington, DC. Details here.
Seminar: "Tax Preparation & Financial Services for the Working Poor" November 10, 2006. Michael Barr, University of Michigan Law School.
Seminar: "The Disposable American: Layoffs and their Consequences." September 25, 2006. Lou Uchitelle, The New York Times. Jointly sponsored by the Knight Wallace Fellows at Michigan.
Seminar: "Reconnecting Disadvantaged Young Men." Harry Holzer, Georgetown University. Sept 18, 2006. Jointly Sponsored by Population Studies Center and the National Poverty Center.
Conference: "The Well Being of Families and Children as Measured by Consumption Behavior." May 4-5, 2006. Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington, DC. Details here.
Seminar: "In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State." April 3, 2006. Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Fellow, American Enterprise Institute.
Seminar: “The Development of Relationship Education for Low-Income Individuals.” March 20, 2006. Scott Stanley, University of Denver and the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program.
Conference: "NPC Annual Workshop for Small Grant Recipients." March 10, 2006. NPC, Ann Arbor, MI. Details here.
Seminar: “Welfare Reform and the ‘Hard-to-Serve’.”March 8, 2006. LaDonna
Pavetti, Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research. Read
Pavetti’s report online.
Seminar: “America's Persisting Poverty: What Research Says About How to Reduce It” February 21, 2006. Sheldon H. Danziger, Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
Seminar: “Strange Unrest: American Family Instability in Comparative Perspective.” February 15, 2006. Andrew Cherlin, Benjamin H. Griswold, III, Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. Co-sponsored by the Population Studies Seminar.
Seminar: “Head Start Turns 40: Historical Perspectives and Recent Research.” February 6, 2006. Ronna Cook, Associate Director of the Human Services Research Group, Westat, Inc. and Maris Vinovskis, A. M. and H. P. Bentley Professor of History and Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan, moderated by Edward Gramlich, Interim Provost, University of Michigan; Richard A. Musgrave Professor at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Read the Westat Inc. report online.
Research Conference: "Health Effects of Non-Health Policies." February 9-10, 2006 Organized for the National Poverty Center by James House, Bob Schoeni, George Kaplan, and Harold Pollack. Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Bethesda, MD. Details here.
