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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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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Michigan Recession and Recovery Study (MRRS)
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
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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