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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: "Percent Plans, Automatic Admissions, and College Enrollment Outcomes" Lindsay Daugherty and Francisco (Paco) Martorell, Rand Corporation and Isaac McFarlin, Jr., University of Michigan

Working Paper: "Promoting Economic Security among Low Income Families in the United States: The Effects of Food Stamps on Labor Supply, Income and Poverty" Udaya R. Wagle, Western Michigan University

Working Paper: "Feedback Effects of Nonprofit Program Design: An Analysis of the Effects of the Starfish Family Services Family Success Program" Carolyn Barnes, Sandra K. Danziger, and Richard Rodems, University of Michigan

Working Paper: "Why is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States so High and Why Does it Matter?" Melissa S. Kearney, University of Maryland and NBER and Phillip B. Levin, Wesley College and NBER

Working Paper: "We’re Not All Deadbeat Parents: Welfare Recipient Voices on Unmet Service Needs" Sandra K. Danziger, Jessica Wiederspan, and J. A. Siegel, University of Michigan

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

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

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

Summer Workshop: Teaching Poverty 101 (June 2–6, 2013)
Application Deadline: January 4, 2013

Conducting Research Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation Summer Workshop (June 24-28, 2013)
Application Deadline: March 1, 2013

Research Program on Childhood Hunger
Letter of Intent Deadline: October 24, 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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