Judi Bartfeld on Food Insecurity Rates and the Increase in SNAP Benefits
In this episode, Judi Bartfeld shares how the COVID-19 pandemic, and the social safety net’s response to it, has affected food insecurity in the Unite...
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The Poverty Research & Policy Podcast is produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) and features interviews with researchers about poverty, inequality, and policy in the United States.
Mustafa Hussein on the Broader Effects of Local Living Wage Ordinances
In this episode, Mustafa Hussein talks about living wage ordinances that were passed in the 1990s and 2000s in cities across the United States. These ...
J. Michael Collins on whether allowances help to develop financial capability
In this episode, we hear from IRP Affiliate J. Michael Collins, Professor of Public Affairs and Consumer Science at UW-Madison and the director of th...
Adrian Huerta on the School Experiences of Gang-Associated Youth
In this episode we hear from Adrian Huerta of the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. Huerta shares his research tha...
Maia Cucchiara on the Hidden Curriculum of Parenting Education
For this episode, we hear from Maia Cucchiara, a professor of Urban Education at Temple University. She talks about low-income mothers’ experiences wi...
Andria Smythe on the College Outcomes of Young Adults in a Recession
There's a sort of conventional wisdom that during recessions, more people enroll in college or stay in college longer when jobs are scarce. But it's ...
Katherine Magnuson on the American Families Plan and Child Care as Infrastructure
In this episode, we hear from IRP Director Katherine Magnuson about components of the just-released American Families Plan. Magnuson discusses parenta...
Kathryn Anne Edwards on Women Leaving the Labor Force in the COVID-19 Pandemic
A striking number of women, and especially moms, who have left the U.S. labor force since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. In this podcast episo...
Chloe Gibbs on Full-Day Kindergarten and its Impact on Academic Achievement
In the last few decades, there has been a major expansion in the number of states and localities offering full-day kindergarten. In this podcast episo...
Timothy Smeeding on Proposals for a Refundable Monthly Child Tax Credit
In this episode, Timothy Smeeding talks about proposals from Senator Mitt Romney and from Democratic leadership for a fully refundable monthly child t...