📣 Wisconsinites! There is still time to register for our valuable virtual conversation taking place today 9/23 at noon CT: Wisconsin Knowledge Boost: How are Wisconsinites Impacted by the New Medicaid Changes? Visit the link for more info and to register: uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣 IRP is excited to announce the recipients of our 2025-26 extramural research grants! We're funding 8 projects focused on 2 areas: benefit cliffs and refugee resettlement. Learn more about the research & meet the recipients: www.irp.wisc.edu/2025-2026-ir... #Research

IRP is seeking an Administrative Assistant III to join our friendly, supportive, and dynamic team and provide administration support to faculty, staff, and students. Apply by 9/28/25. Visit the link for more information and to apply: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/adminis...

📖 📻 New IRP Book Talk is now available in your podcast feed: Jane Waldfogel on Child Benefits: A Smart Investment for America’s Future. She shares research on child benefits around the world and makes a case for implementing a similar program in the US. Listen now: www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/irp...

📣 Join us for an upcoming 9/30 webinar on "Understanding the Cost of Housing Quality on Families and Communities" with panelists @stevenschmidt.bsky.social, Erik Hembre, and Christine Ekenga. Register today: www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/und...

Join IRP and the UW-Madison Division of Extension for a new virtual series: Wisconsin Knowledge Boost! Our first session includes experts to discuss "How are Wisconsinites Impacted by the New Medicaid Changes?" Register for this 9/23 lunchtime session today: uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣 IRP is growing our Data Science team with 3 new positions! Learn more about this excellent opportunity and apply by 9/17/25: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/irp-dat...

▶️ Yesterday's webinar recording and slides on "Navigating Disability Benefits: New Research on Administrative Burden and Work Incentives" now posted! Thanks to our presenters Debra Brucker w/ UNH, @michaellevere.bsky.social w/ Colgate, and Ramonia Rochester w/ NDI. www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/nav...

Great new podcast episode! Dr. Alexandra Murphy of @umfordschool.bsky.social discusses transportation insecurity her work constructing and implementing the Transportation Insecurity Index. Listen here: www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/ale...

The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families has extended the deadline for its 2025 professional development grant program for doctoral students and early career scholars to 8/18/25 @ 5pm EST. Learn more: www.hispanicresearchcenter.org/emerging-sch...

Register now for this excellent upcoming webinar "Navigating Disability Benefits: New Research on Administrative Burden and Work Incentives" with Debra Brucker from UNH, @michaellevere.bsky.social from Colgate, and Ramonia Rochester with NDI. Register here: www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/nav...

Let's give a warm welcome to Bluesky to our colleagues at @uwlafollette.bsky.social! Give them a follow.

We're hiring! Please share with your networks! The Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the field of demography of health and aging beginning in August 2026 jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Please consider submitting an abstract!

📢 We’re pleased to announce the 2025–2026 cohort of the IRP Professional Development Training Series on Poverty and Economic Mobility Research. 📢 IRP uses a competitive application process to select up to 10 continuing PhD students to participate in the training series. (1/12)

Join us for this great webinar on Wednesday! Our panelists will present their research on programs including career, technical and vocational education, community colleges, and opportunities like apprenticeships, and how to maximize the returns for participants. www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/cur...

Join us for this great IRP webinar on 7/23! "Current Research on Alternative Educational and Training Pathways," with Di Xu of @ucirvine.bsky.social, Maura Kelly of Portland State University, and @doughesm.bsky.social of @bostoncollege.bsky.social. Register here: www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/cur...

Honored to be named a 2025–2026 IRP National Dissertation Awardee! Grateful for the opportunity to advance my research on policies shaping Medicaid delivery systems and their impact on adolescents. Thank you @irpwisc.bsky.social!

Congratulations to IRP 2025–2026 National Dissertation Awardees Menna Mburi of UNC Chapel Hill and Rachel Rosales of @brownpublichealth.bsky.social‬! The award supports outstanding dissertation projects that explore issues of poverty and economic mobility in human services.

🎧Great new podcast episode! 🎧 IRP Affiliate @luciegschmidt.bsky.social of Smith College & @nber.org describes the safety net landscape before 1996, and how specific programs and overall coverage have changed since welfare reform was put in place. www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/luc...

Great to see this new work by IRP Affiliate @arpilarz.bsky.social and IRP Dissertation Research Fellowship award recipient Anna Walther!

Tomorrow (Wed. 5/28)! You can still register here to attend this great webinar (or to get the recording emailed to you after). www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/wor...

Congrats to IRP Graduate Research Fellow Anna Walther for receiving this year's Dissertation Research Fellowship! Her dissertation is "Essays on the Social Safety Net, Economic Insecurity, and Inequality during the Transition to Parenthood." www.irp.wisc.edu/training/irp... @uwsocialwork.bsky.social

Sign up now for this webinar on 5/28! Our panelists will discuss the stated goals of work requirements and how they function in practice, as well as what they mean for the experiences of eligible individuals and families. www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/wor...

📢 Register now for this great upcoming webinar! 📢 "Work Requirements and Safety Net Coverage," with @chloeneast.bsky.social of University of Colorado Denver, Michael Karpman of @urbaninstitute.bsky.social & Chima Ndumele of @yalesph.bsky.social. www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/wor...

Congratulations to IRP Affiliates Felix Elwert, Lauren Schmitz, Tessa Conroy, Michael Massoglia for this recognition! @uwsoc.bsky.social

TODAY! Come hear from IRP and @uwmadison.bsky.social alum Matthew Desmond. The talk is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow.

Don't miss this great webinar on Wed., 4/30! "Policy and Practice Approaches To Predicting And Addressing Food Insecurity," with Leslie Hodges of USDA, Angela Odoms-Young of @cornelluniversity.bsky.social & Seungmin Lee of @pulteinstitute.bsky.social. Register: www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/pol...

TODAY! We hope you'll join us to hear from Dr. Hwang.

🎧Great new podcast episode! 🎧 Hear from @lisagennetian.bsky.social of the Sanford School of Public Policy at @duke-university.bsky.social about what the research tells us about cash aid to families with children and current experiments in guaranteed income. www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/lis...

📣 Coming up next week! 📣 Join us for what is sure to be an inspiring and insightful presentation by IRP alum Matthew Desmond of @evictionlab.bsky.social. Thursday, May 1st, on the @uwmadison.bsky.social campus. The event is free and open to the publicand a reception will follow the talk.

This week's IRP seminar: Dr. Jackelyn Hwang of @stanford.edu on “The New Housing Crisis: Gentrification and Residential Instability in the San Francisco Bay Area after the Great Recession.” Th 4/24, 12:30-1:45 pm, 8417 Sewell Social Sciences, @uwmadison.bsky.social. More info: buff.ly/3WILMa6

Today! Many U.S. employers have created “employee hardship funds” to pool money donations from a firm’s workers to offer cash grants to employees in unforeseen emergencies. Join us to learn about the evolving moral economy between workers & employers in the low-wage labor market.

This week's IRP seminar: IRP Affiliate @thequist.bsky.social of @gpsucsd.bsky.social on “Welfare Capitalism on the Cheap? Employee Hardship Funds, Worker Attachment, and Union Avoidance.” Th 4/17 12:15–1:30pm, 8417 William H. Sewell Social Sciences Building, UW-Madison. More info: buff.ly/3WILMa6

Join us for the 2025 Lampman Memorial Lecture! We're very pleased to welcome @uwmadison.bsky.social & IRP alum Matthew Desmond of @evictionlab.bsky.social for the presentation. His talk is free and open to the public, and no registration is required. More info: www.irp.wisc.edu/events/the-r...

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