Center for Poverty Research executive committee member Jacob
Hibel has won a grant to study how schools adapt to a sharp
increase in immigrant families, which will help develop
interventions to help low-income kids who may have trouble
catching up to their peers.
A UC Davis economist and Center for Poverty Research Faculty
Affiliate is taking part in an evaluation of the Special
Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children
(WIC).
The project is being conducted by a committee organized by the
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine at the
request of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition
Service. Its goal is to see if the redesigned WIC food packages
meet the goals of the program, which are to protect the health of
women, infants, and young children who are at risk of poor
nutrition.
Three of last year’s Visiting Graduate Scholars presented a joint
project with a poster at the 2015 Fall Research Conference hosted
by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and
Management.
The poster, “Moonlighting to Make Ends Meet: The Impact of
Multiple Job Holding on Household Economic Wellbeing,” by
Jennifer Scott, Alexandra Stanczyk and Kathryn Ann Edwards,
described how holding multiple jobs can reduce poverty by
increasing family income.
By Ben Hinshaw, Institute for Social
Sciences — Welfare has long been the subject of heated
debate. On November 6, 2015, Manasi Deshpande continued that
debate at a seminar hosted by the Center for Poverty Research.
Focusing on Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Deshpande, an
assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago,
presented her recent paper “Does Welfare Inhibit Success? The
Long-Term Effects of Removing Low-Income Youth from Disability
Insurance.”
DAVIS, Calif. — Center for Poverty Research faculty
affiliates in education and economics have been awarded nearly $5
million to find out how well the state prepares K-12 students for
college and careers.
DAVIS, Calif. — In this new video series released by the UC
Davis Center for Poverty Research, Faculty Affiliates discuss
some of the causes and consequences of poverty in the U.S. as
well as possible solutions suggested by research from across
academic disciplines.
DAVIS, Calif. — Eight undergraduates visiting UC Davis from
historically black colleges and universities capped off their
summer research experience with presentations on schools, stress
and child development, trauma and memory and the Earned Income
Tax Credit.
The University of California, Davis, School of Medicine,
Department of Public Health Sciences invites applications for a
faculty position at the Assistant Professor level with expertise
in public health and poverty policy research and teaching.
The latest portrait of poverty in California: Find out which
groups and regions are bearing the brunt of living in the
country’s highest-poverty state and how well the safety net is
working to reduce poverty.
DAVIS, Calif. — UC Davis graduate students affiliated with the
Center for Poverty Research have recently won a number of
prestigious fellowships for their research.
This year, fellowships graduate student affiliates have won
include the UC Davis Provost’s Fellowship in the Arts,
Humanities, and Social Sciences; National Academy of
Education/Spencer Foundation dissertation fellowships and the
American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship.
When our three new undergraduates arrived last January to start
their Public Policy Fellowships at the Center for Poverty
Research, they had no idea what they were getting into, and only
a vague sense of what they would accomplish by summer. All they
had was potential and an interest in poverty policy.
“When I applied for the fellowship,” says Alex Matsiras, a
managerial economics major, “I was taking a class about poverty
in the world so I thought it’d be interesting.”
DAVIS, Calif. — Center director Ann Huff Stevens has been
appointed interim dean of the Graduate School of Management.
Stevens will continue to direct the center but will give up her
position as chair of the Department of Economics. She will serve
as dean until the position is filled permanently, but will not be
a candidate for the job. Stevens’ appointment is effective
October 1.
STANFORD, Calif. — The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality
featured work by Center for Poverty Research directors and
affiliates in their summer 2014 issue of Pathways magazine. The
articles by Ann Stevens, Marianne Page, Giovanni Peri and Hilary
Hoynes, focused on aspects of labor markets ranging from
immigrants to job loss to safety net programs.
DAVIS, Calif. — The UC Davis Center for Poverty Research has
launched a program to host undergraduates from Historically Black
Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for summer experiences with
poverty research and mentorship toward academic careers.
DAVIS, Calif. – American Winter, a
documentary feature film on American poverty, was screened at UC
Davis on May 22, accompanied by a resource fair and panel
discussion moderated by Yolo County Supervisor Don Saylor.
DAVIS, Calif. — More than 60 women leaders from the Sacramento
region convened at UC Davis in March to discuss the complex
challenges women face in the workplace with an eye toward policy
that could affect the nation.
DAVIS, Calif. — In his novel The Grapes of Wrath, John
Steinbeck made famous the image of poor farming families fleeing
a land that turned against them to seek better lives in
California. Drought, regular economic shocks and persistent rural
poverty nationwide are just a few reasons the rural poor that
Steinbeck portrayed continue to struggle today.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Center for Poverty Research Director Ann
Huff Stevens presented on poverty in California at the first
meeting of the new legislative caucus on ending poverty in the
state.
DAVIS, Calif. — Amid the 500-plus pages of the newly released
Shriver Report on poverty among women, you will find the Thrive
Index, the work of UC Davis economics professor Ann Huff Stevens
with research assistance from MBA students in the Graduate School
of Management.
Stevens is chair of the Department of Economics and director of
the Center for Poverty Research. Read about the center’s
recent
two-day conference marking the 50th anniversary of LBJ’s War
on Poverty.
In January 1964, President Lyndon Johnson launched America’s War
on Poverty — a battle today that is not so much won or lost, but
a continuing movement.
As members of that effort, UC Davis faculty who research poverty
have written that safety-net programs initiated with the War on
Poverty such as Head Start and food stamps have made a difference
in the lives of the poor.
But the Great Recession has resulted in reduced funding for many
of these core programs.
Jan. 8 marks the 50th anniversary of legislation launching
America’s War on Poverty. The story of that war is often told
with a sort of reverse Hollywood ending: oversimplified and
wrapped up neatly as a failure. No one can claim that the war on
poverty has been won, but the failure narrative is just as wrong.
The real story with some fundamental facts highlighted is more
complex than simple wins and losses, and long overdue.
More bad news, it seems, on student debt: A new report from the
Institute for College Access and Success shows that more students
are borrowing, and those who do are borrowing more. For
California, however, there is a silver lining. The report shows
California has the second-lowest level of student borrowing in
the nation.
DAVIS, Calif. — The Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis
hosted top health care experts from across the country to discuss
the rollout of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and what the health
care expansion means for poor and low income families in the U.S.
The Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis hosted top health
care experts from across the country to discuss the rollout of
the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and what the health care expansion
means for poor and low income families in the U.S.
These three projects won more than $1.3 million in the funding
this past June to support interdisciplinary research projects led
by Center for Poverty Research director Ann Huff Stevens, deputy
director Marianne Page, and faculty affiliate Giovanni Peri.
DAVIS, Calif. — The conference “Poverty and the Long-term
Effects of Early Life Experiences,” hosted by the UC Davis Center
for Poverty Research, gathered over a hundred attendees to hear
and discuss new research across the social science disciplines on
the long-term impacts of poverty in early life.
DAVIS, Calif. — Emerging poverty researchers from across the
country presented findings from their Center for Poverty Research
Small Grants-funded studies at the 2011-2012 Small Grants
Recipients Conference on Friday, April 26, 2013.
DAVIS, Calif. — Dr. Ron Haskins, the former White House and
congressional advisor who was instrumental in the 1996 overhaul
of national welfare policy, is the Center for Poverty Research
Winter Distinguished Visiting Scholar at UC Davis this February.
DAVIS, Calif. — The Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis
hosted an interdisciplinary gathering of scholars, educators and
policymakers to discuss new research on community colleges and
the role they play in workforce development. The conference took
place on January 11, 2013.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California State Assembly Committee on
Accountability and Administrative Review held hearings in
December 2011 on the problem of inequality and the potential role
of state government. Center for Poverty Research Director Ann
Huff Stevens testified, along with researchers from a variety of
universities and institutes throughout the state.
