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No Place to Call Home: Child and Youth Homelessness in the United States
- Neil Damron
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- May 2015
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Unaffordable America: Poverty, housing, and eviction
- Matthew Desmond
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- March 2015
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Brain Drain: A Child’s Brain on Poverty
- Neil Damron
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- March 2015
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Early childhood interventions for low-income children
- Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2014–2015) 2015
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Educational opportunity for homeless students
- Peter Miller, Alexandra E. Pavlakis, Lea Samartino, and Alexis K. Bourgeois
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2014–2015) 2015
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It’s Not Like I’m Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World
- Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Kathryn Edin, and Laura Tach
- Webinar
- January 21 2015
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Poverty and the Brain
- Seth Pollak and Barbara Wolfe
- Webinar
- December 17 2014
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Life Beyond Bars: Children with an Incarcerated Parent
- Neil Damron
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- November 2014
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Roles and Resources in Complex Families
- Lawrence Berger
- Podcasts
- October 2014
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Helping the Hard-to-Employ and Their Families
- Carolyn Heinrich and Timothy Smeeding
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2014
Center on Child Welfare Policy & Practice
The Center on Child Welfare Policy and Practice (CCWPP) is a joint effort between the School of Social Work (SSW) and the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The CCWPP engages in inter-disciplinary efforts to inform child welfare policy and practice knowledge through enhanced collaboration and communication among researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.