- Spring/Summer 2014
- Focus-31-1
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This issue of Focus features articles by panelists at the April 2014 conference “Poverty, Policy, and People: 25 Years of Research and Training at the University of Michigan.” The articles cover four areas: Poverty and Welfare, Children and Families, Race and Immigration, and Inequality and Mobility.
Introduction to the Issue, by Maria Cancian and Mary Pattillo
Poverty and welfare
- Measuring progress in the fight against poverty, by Gregory Acs
- Family instability and the risk of material hardship, by Colleen Heflin
- Work-exempt TANF participants, by Marci Ybarra
Children and families
- The social contexts of adolescent romantic relationships, by Lloyd Grieger, Yasamin Kusunoki, and David J. Harding
- Racial and ethnic infant mortality gaps and socioeconomic status, by Steven J. Haider
- Whose money matters? by Alexandra Killewald
Race and immigration
- Immigrants balance local labor markets, by Brian Cadena and Brian Kovak
- The effect of affirmative action bans on the representation of students of color in medical schools , by Liliana M. Garces and David Mickey-Pabello
- Traumatic loss in low-income communities of color, by Sandra Susan Smith
Inequality and mobility
- Does incarceration affect inequality during old age? by Ngina Chiteji
- Intergenerational transmission of well-being, by Fabian T. Pfeffer and Robert F. Schoeni
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Links to additional readings and videos related to the articles in the issue. This resource may be particularly useful in the classroom.
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