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UKCPR Director James Ziliak is the editor of Appalachian Legacy: Economic Opportunity after the War on Poverty, published by Brookings Institution Press in 2012. The volume is based on a conference sponsored by UKCPR | |||
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UKCPR is pleased to announce a research funding opportunity on childhhod hunger in connection with the Research Program on Childhood Hunger. UKCPR will competitively award grants to qualified individuals and institutions to provide rigorous research that expands our understanding of hunger among children in the United States and the attendant policy implications. Total anticipated funding is $1.6 million across four large grants at $250,000 each and six small grants at $100,000 each. Letters of intent are due December 15, 2011, and full proposals are due February 3, 2012. Access full RFP>>> |
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UKCPR is delighted to announce awards for two Graduate Research Assistants - Sarah Burns and Tonmoy Islam. Sarah won 1st place for the Saturday poster session at the APPAM Fall Meetings. Her paper is titled "Was there a Race to the Bottom after Welfare Reform?" Tonmoy won the 2011 Southern Economic Association Graduate Student Award at the Annual Meeting. The title of his paper is "Childhood Neighborhood Conditions and the Persistence of Adult Income." | |||
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On April 28, 2011 UKCPR, U.S. Census Bureau and The Brookings Institution hosted Cost of Living and the Supplemental Poverty Measure at The Brookings Institution. |
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UKCPR Director James Ziliak is the editor of 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. | |||
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UKCPR has updated its national dataset of state-level information, as of October 2010. The current data cover the years 1980-2010. Access data>>> |
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