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James Ziliak's Congressional testimony featured in U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture report

James Ziliak's Congressional testimony was featured in the just released U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture report, "Past, Present, and Future of SNAP."  The purpose of the report is to provide a better understanding of how the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) utilizes benefits to serve its population.  More information can be found here.

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The UKCPR National Welfare Database has been updated with data through 2015, along with small additions and revisions.  More information, along with the data, is available here.

James Ziliak featured on Vox.com

James Ziliak was recently featured on Vox.com discussing the sufficiency of SNAP benefits in the context of the 2016 general election.  To read the full article, please click here.

UKCPR to co-organize 20th anniversary of welfare reform panels with Brookings Institution

On September 22, 2016, UKCPR will be co-organizing and co-sponsoring a series of panels with the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution on the effects of welfare reform on child well-being, marriage and families, work and poverty, and state policy choices.  The event will be webcast, with former Domestic Policy Adviser for President Clinton Bruce Reed and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich providing keynote speeches.  More information can be found here.

UKCPR partners with IRP to study poverty

UKCPR has been awarded a five year, $443,202 grant as part of the Collaborative of U.S. Poverty Centers (CUSPC) organized by the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin. Underwriting for the award is provided by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which established the IRP as the new National Poverty Research Center. The funds will enable UKCPR to conduct research and organize conferences on deep poverty, self-sufficiency, and rural poverty, among other topics. Other CUSPC members include the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University, the Center on Race and Wealth at Howard University, and the University of Washington West Coast Poverty Center.  For more information, please see the IRP press release here.

UKCPR has received a $300,000 grant from the Economic Research Service in the US Department of Agriculture to sponsor and conduct longitudinal research on food insecurity in the United States using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the longest continuously running longitudinal survey in the world.  A request for proposals will be released later in fall 2016.

James Ziliak wins NSF award for Kentucky Research Data Center

James Ziliak to be Executive Director of the new NSF-funded Kentucky Research Data Center (KRDC).  The KRDC will be the lead Federal Statistical Research Data Center in the East-Central Region of the country, and will be a collaboration between Indiana University, The Ohio State University, University of Cincinnati, and University of Louisville.  More information about the KRDC can be found here.

James Ziliak Featured on Vox.com

James Ziliak, Carlos Lamarche, and Robert Paul Hartley recently featured in a welfare reform restrospective on Vox.com.  To read the full article, please click here.  

UKCPR Announces 2016 FoodAPS Grantees

The University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) is pleased to announce the competitive awarding of three grants totaling $150,000 dollars as part of our initiative Understanding SNAP, Food Security, and Geographic Factors in Food Purchase and Acquisition Decisions. The focus of this initiative is to provide rigorous research that utilizes data from the FoodAPS National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey to expand our understanding of household food behaviors and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program including (1) the issues of benefit adequacy, diet quality, cost of a healthy diet, and food security, and (2) the role of the local food environment and other geographic factors.  In addition to the FoodAPS data, geographically linked data on the local food environment and food prices compiled as part of the FoodAPS Geography Component (FoodAPS-GC) are available for awardees.  Underwriting for the competition was generously provided by the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Southern Economic Journal Features UKCPR Childhood Food Insecurity Research

Funded research from UKCPR's Research Program on Childhood Hunger is now featured in a special issue of the Southern Economic Journal.  To view the issue, please click here.