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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, ine...
There has been a lot of research on the impact of levels of public expenditures on a variety of social outcomes, including health and econom...
Unconditional cash transfers programs are being piloted across the country. For this episode, Dr. Luke Shaefer shares his work with RX Kids...
Millions of households in the United States struggle to maintain access to the energy necessary to heat and cool their home, to have power t...
The Poverty Research & Policy Podcast is produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) and featu...
M aterial hardship like food or housing insecurity or inadequate access to medical care are routinely measured. But transportation insecurit...
The 1960s and 1970s were a time of tremendous change politically and culturally in the United States. Federal legislation and policy enshrin...
The Clinton-era Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was a significant reform of the welfare system as it...
Many countries use direct cash aid programs as an integral part of their social safety net. In the United States, there have been few nation...
There are many factors that influence whether Mexican immigrants to the United States are able to achieve upward mobility. In his new book,...
Between 5% and 20% of children in the United States live with a disability. The definition and measurement of disability are constantly chan...
There are many ways to assess the quality of care that pregnant people receive pre- and post-partum, as well as during delivery itself. Dr....
The federal Farm Bill expired at the end of September 2024 and was not reauthorized. Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Progr...
Menstrual poverty, or unmet menstrual hygiene needs, is defined as a lack of appropriate menstrual products in necessary quantities; access...
When the Child Tax Credit (CTC) was expanded in 2021 in response to the COVID-19 crisis, it provided more support to parents and on a monthl...
Black-Led Organizations (BLOs) are organizations led by an Executive Director and have a majority of full-time employees identifying as Afri...
Minimum wage workers, especially those with children, face barriers to affordable child care. Child care costs can prevent working parents w...
There are more than 17 million renters in the rural Unites States. While popular perceptions of eviction may be that they are predominantly...
Homeownership is one of the most common ways to accumulate wealth and promote intergenerational economic mobility in the United States. But...
COVID-19 interrupted life on multiple levels for many people regardless of race, economic class, or citizenship. For Latina mothers who eith...
Experiencing poverty in childhood can hinder a person's opportunities throughout their own lifetime, and those of their children and grandch...
Black Meccas are cities where it appears that Black communities thrive more-so than other places in the United States. However, the housing...
Where you live can affect the quality of education you receive, your chances of finding a good job, and even how long you might live. In the...
Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement is common, especially for children experiencing poverty, or who are Black or Native American. Ab...
Reparations for Black Americans is not a new idea—before the U.S. Civil War had ended, there was a proposal to provide freed Black people wi...
Many people suffer from not getting enough sleep from time to time. But for many people of color and those who are living in low-income neig...
Wisconsin is one of a few states with a Birth Cost Recovery p rogram , which bills unmarried, non-custodial fathers for the birth costs of t...
Whether renters have access to safe, high-quality housing has serious implications for health and health equity. Local housing policy often...
Family child care is the care of non-relative children within the providers' home. Thirty percent of family child care professionals are wom...
In his new book, Dr. Zachary Parolin explores three perspectives on poverty—poverty as a risk factor, poverty as an expression of access to...
The federal government established a temporary water assistance program to alleviate the burden of water costs on households during the COVI...
There are known protective factors that can help young people exiting foster care to thrive by reducing or eliminating the challenges that t...
While non-standard work is not a new concept, technology has fueled a recent rise in independent contracting, freelancing, temporary, on-cal...
Probation is often considered to be a kinder, gentler alternative to incarceration. But there are significant financial and emotional costs...
Self-employment can be a choice, or undertaken by necessity. In the United States, on average, 10 to 12% of the labor force is engaged in so...
Estimates are that 20–50% of people eligible for social safety net programs don't access them. While there may be many factors contributing...
Official measures of homelessness seem to indicate that the Latinx community is less affected than most other minoritized racial groups. But...
In this episode, we hear from Hope Harvey about doubled-up households in the United States and why she thinks we should be paying more atten...
High levels of segregation can have significant impacts on communities and the individuals living in them. New research uses railroad tracks...
In this episode, we hear from Nidia Bañuelos about how we can better value and measure the assets that college students from low income and...
Labor unions receive relatively little attention in U.S. poverty research and our guest for this episode, Professor David Brady, says that t...
When it comes to cash transfer programs like welfare for single parents and especially mothers, most of the evaluation and economic modeling...
The Biden administration's plan to alleviate federal student loan debt has the potential to reduce the debt of approximately 43 million Amer...
IRP recently hosted Dr. Noni Gaylord-Harden , Dr. Jocelyn Smith Lee , and Dr. Alvin Thomas for a webinar conversation on Youth Trauma and Re...
For this episode, we hear from Dr. Casey Stockstill about research she did to better understand economic and racial segregation in preschool...
2022 marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low Wage Work, by Kathryn Edi...
Where we get information about money and how to manage it can have long-lasting impacts on financial security and wealth accumulation. While...
In this episode of the Poverty Research & Policy Podcast, we hear from Brieanna Watters and Robert Stewart about a paper they coauthored* on...
In this episode, we hear from José Pacas about data challenges involved in measuring rural poverty in the Supplemental Poverty Measure or SP...
People experiencing homelessness are more often part of the background in movies than featured as the protagonists. But when they are the fo...
When the pandemic hit, many people who study child maltreatment, abuse, and neglect were worried that some children might be at greater risk...