CONTACT: Hilary Shager, (608) 262-7990, hilary.shager@wisc.edu MADISON – DreamUp WI is launching its second round of competition, seeking entrepreneurial ideas to increase the net income of 10,000 Dane County families by 10 percent by the year …
UW–Madison Center for Financial Security partnered with the Wisconsin Employee Trust Fund to survey state Group Health Insurance Program participants about how they are managing out-of-pocket costs
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Congratulations to Former IRP Director John Karl Scholz, named UW–Madison Provost
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UW’s Institute for Research on Poverty joins network to fight opioid addiction | Lisa Speckhard Pasque | madison.com
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Katherine Magnuson on Baby’s First Years: The study is designed to be a strong test of the effects of a mother receiving $333 a month for her baby’s first three years of life
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May 9 Brookings webcast: Tim Smeeding on panel discussing NAS reducing child poverty roadmap he helped create
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Katherine Magnuson and Hilary Shager present IRP’s rapid response data and analysis protocols at Midwest Mobility meeting
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UW–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty Joins the National Academy of Medicine in Countering the Opioid Epidemic
CONTACT: Barbara Wolfe, wolfe@lafollette.wisc.edu or Deborah Johnson, deborah.johnson@wisc.edu MADISON — The number of opioid-related deaths—from both prescription opioids and illegal drugs including heroin, fentanyl, and carfentanil—has quadrupled in the last 20 years. At present, the …
Call for Applications: IRP Extramural Small Grant on Poverty, Retirement, and Disability Research (Deadline: 5/17/2019)
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IRP joins UW School of Medicine & Public Health & School of Human Ecology to establish research center for mother-baby health funded by the CDC and headed by Deborah Ehrenthal
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