Wisconsin Poverty 101
- Anna Emmerich
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- May 2012
Bridging the Gap: Do Farmers’ Markets Help Alleviate Impacts of Food Deserts? Final Report
- Vicki A. McCracken, Jeremy L. Sage, and Rayna A. Sage
- Discussion Paper
- April 2012
Food Insecurity and Food Access
- Alessandro Bonanno and Jing Li
- Discussion Paper
- March 2012
Disconnected Americans
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2011-2012) 2012
How former prisoners become connected
- David J. Harding, Jessica J. B. Wyse, Cheyney Dobson, and Jeffrey D. Morenoff
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2011-2012) 2012
Estimating the Impact of Food Stamps on the New York City Poverty Rate Using a National Academy of Sciences-Style Poverty Measure
- Mark Levitan and Daniel Scheer
- Discussion Paper
- January 2012
The Dynamics of SNAP Participation and the Increase in SNAP Caseloads during the Recovery of 2003-2007
- Janna Johnson
- Discussion Paper
- January 2012
An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States
- Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Robert Moffitt, and John Karl Scholz
- Discussion Paper
- June 2011
Child Poverty during the Great Recession: Predicting State Child Poverty Rates for 2010
- Julia B. Isaacs
- Discussion Paper
- January 2011
The effects of the 2009 ARRA on poverty in Wisconsin
- Timothy M. Smeeding, Julia B. Isaacs, Joanna Y. Marks, and Katherine Thornton
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- December 2010
Research Areas
Food Assistance Program Research Center
IRP served as a Food Assistance Program Research Center from 1999 to 2015. The Center, which was directed by IRP Affiliate Judith Bartfeld, was supported by funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service (ERS) as part of the ERS Research Innovation and Development Grants in Economics (RIDGE) Program.
Reports from the studies funded by the Center are available on . For a full listing of project summaries for all RIDGE-supported research projects, including those not affiliated with IRP, go to the ERS website.
Wisconsin Food Security Project
To promote food security in Wisconsin, IRP Affiliate Judith Bartfeld and colleagues at the Applied Population Lab have created the Wisconsin Food Security Project.
The interactive data and mapping website includes state and local data on economic well-being, food security, the retail food environment, and the availability and use of public and private food assistance programs.