UKCPR will host
Christopher Wildeman
, assistant professor of sociology, Yale University, as an Emerging Scholar Feb. 8-12. During his visit he will also deliver a brown bag seminar on the impact of imprisonment on infant mortality.
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UKCPR will host
Kerwin Charles
, distingushed service professor,
Harris School pf Public Policy, University of Chicago
, as part of the Center's
Seminar Series
.
UKCPR hosted Appalachia and the Legacy of the War on Poverty: A Research Agenda on Oct. 2. Conference papers are available online.
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UKCPR researchers
James Ziliak
and
Richard Fording
testified Sept. 21 before a legislative
Poverty Task Force
organized as a bipartisan effort by the Kentucky Legislature.
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Watch a news clip from WYMT TV.
View Ziliak and Fording's Powerpoint presentation to the Kentucky Legislature Task Force.>>>
UKCPR Director
James Ziliak
is the editor of a newly released book titled
Welfare Reform and its Long Term Consequences for America's Poor
, published by Cambridge University Press. The volume is based on papers presented at UKCPR's
April 2007 conference
on the effects of
1996 welfare reform legislation
.
UKCPR has updated its national
dataset
of
state-level information, as of October 2009. The current data cover the years 1980-2009.
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