Past NPC Events - 2008
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Workshop: New Research on Income Instability November 14, 2008 at the Michigan Union Pendleton Room, 10:00 AM–3:30 PM; Featuring four papers by Peter Gottschalk and Robert Moffitt; Donggyun Shin and Gary Solon; Kristin Seefeldt and Helen Levy; Lloyd Greiger, Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk.
Seminar: "The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks: The Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on Urban Poverty and Inequality." Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Duke University. Co-sponsored with the Population Studies Center. September 22, 2008. Noon–1 PM, 6050 ISR Building, 426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI.
Public Lecture: “Disparities and Prejudice: an Economic Analysis” presented by Professor Kerwin Kofi Charles, University of Chicago. Co-sponsored with the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. September 17, 2008. 4–5:30 PM, Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Weill Hall, 735 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI.
Public Lecture: “Black-White Differences in Economic Well-being” presented by Professor Kerwin Kofi Charles, University of Chicago. Co-sponsored with the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. September 15, 2008. 4:00–5:30 pm, Annenberg Auditorium, 1120 Weill Hall, 735 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI.
Seminar: "Measuring and Understanding Poverty" by Sheldon Danziger. June 24, 2008. 3:00 pm. University of Michigan Weill Hall, Betty Ford Classroom (Room 1110), 735 South State Street, Ann Arbor. MI 48109-3091.
Read the papers by Sheldon Danziger and by Rebecca Blank.
Seminar: "Immigration and Poverty" by Steven Raphael. June 23, 2008. 3:30 pm. University of Michigan Weill Hall, Betty Ford Classroom (Room 1110), 735 South State Street, Ann Arbor. MI 48109-3091.
Read the paper by Steven Raphael.
Policy Forum: Helping Disconnected and Hard-to-Employ Single Mothers. Co-sponsored by the Brookings Center on Children and Families. May 7, 2008. 9:00 am — 11:15 am. The Brookings Institution’s Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington. DC
Conference: "NPC Annual Workshop for Small Grant Recipients." April 4, 2008. Room 1210, Weill Hall, Ann Arbor, MI.
Seminar: "The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America." Katherine Newman, Princeton University. Co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. February 6, 2008, 4 pm – 5:30 pm, Annenberg Auditorium, 1110 Weill Hall.
Seminar: "Can Educational Outcomes be Improved in Community Colleges? Recent Evidence from Two Randomized Studies" Cecilia Rouse, Princeton University. Jointly sponsored by the Center for State, Local and Urban Policy. January 22, 2008, 4 pm – 5:30 pm, Betty Ford Classroom, 1110 Weill Hall
Seminar: "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. Speakers include Mary Pattillo, Sandra S. Smith, and David Harding. Event is co-sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Students of Color in Public Policy. January 21st, 2008.
Seminar: "The Impact of Unemployment on Time Investments in Health." John Cawley, Cornell University. January 9, 2008, noon – 1 pm, 3240 Weill Hall
Seminar: "Work After Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children." Rachel Dunifon, Cornell University. January 7, 2008, noon – 1 pm, 3240 Weill Hall
