The National Poverty Fellows Program is a federal government-university partnership that seeks to build the capacity of researchers to conduct high-quality policy-relevant research on poverty and inequality in the United States and to contribute to …
National Poverty Fellows Program Position Description for 2021–2022
The National Poverty Fellows in residence at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in Washington, D.C., will work in the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) and will be assigned to the Division …
Is higher COVID-19 mortality in Black adults linked to essential work?
James Kingsland, Medical News Today, 9/20/2020, quoted: Tiffany Green
Toll of COVID-19 on Wisconsin’s Workforce
Frederica Freyberg, PBS Wisconsin, 9/18/2020, quoted: Laura Dresser
State Unemployment Rate Declined Slightly In August
Shamane Mills, Wisconsin Public Radio, 9/17/2020, quoted: Timothy Smeeding
Food Hardship During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Great Recession
James Ziliak, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 9/2020
COVID Outcomes Update: Health and Employment Impacts in the US Compared to other Countries
Harry Holzer, Brookings, 9/16/2020
We Are Part Of A Storm’: Virtual Schooling Takes A Toll On Children And Families
Madeline Fox, Wisconsin Public Radio, 9/17/2020, quoted: Alejandra Ros Pilarz and Katherine Magnuson
Pandemic Unemployment: What Happens When Benefits Never Arrive?
Grace Tatter and Meghna Chakrabarti, On Point Radio, 9/17/2020, quoted: Pamela Herd
UW–Madison Teams Top National Competition to Help Middle Class
By Rebecca Jourdan Schwei Two teams from the University of Wisconsin–Madison won a combined $1.5 million in provisional funding in a national competition to help boost the middle class. The two teams, Connect Rx Wisconsin …