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Vox podcast with Timothy Smeeding (20-minute mark) and Rourke O’Brien (38-minute mark) about new NCHS report on record low U.S. fertility rate
Hilary Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach cited in Washington Post for new findings: U.S. now spends less in real dollars on very poor children than it did 30 years ago
Schmidt Futures awards UW-Madison $1.5 million to forge new pathways to boosting the middle class
CONTACT: DreamUp, 608-265-1054 or DreamUpAlliance@wisc.edu What: Launch event for new $1.5 million initiative, Alliance for the American Dream, launched by UW–Madison and Schmidt Futures, to produce innovative ideas for increasing Dane County families’ income Partners: …
Campus-wide UW–Community Collaboration and Research Competition: Kickoff event Engaging Faculty and Staff in the Alliance for the American Dream Initiative
Join Us for the Campus Kickoff of the Campus-Wide UW-Community Collaboration and Research Competition: The Alliance for the American Dream Date: Friday, May 18, 2018 Time: 12:00-2:00 pm Location: WI Institute for Discovery (WID), H.F. …
Wisconsin First Lady Tonette Walker advocates for trauma-informed care at foster care seminar
Christopher Taber and colleagues’ research on graduation and college-attendance benefits of Catholic high schools cited as new Catholic school opens in troubled Baltimore neighborhood
Tonya Brito selected as a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar
Tonya Brito selected as a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar to explore court experiences of low-income defendants with child support arrears.
New RSF journal double-issue reimagines “Anti-Poverty Policy Initiatives for the U.S.”
Lawrence Berger, Maria Cancian, and Katherine Magnuson coedited a double-issue of the Russell Sage Foundation’s open-access journal that features substantially new, innovative anti-poverty policy proposals. The proposals by leading social scientists explore alternatives to shrinking …