Center podcasts are a great way to keep up with today’s poverty
research and public policy. We record most of our conference
presentations and talks by our seminar speakers. We also produce
exclusive content, such as our Poverty in Focus series, as well
as expert discussions on research.
Ken Jacobs moderates this policy discussion and Q&A on
raising labor standards at the local level. Jacobs is the
Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center, where he has been a
Labor Specialist since 2002.
In this presentation, Jeffrey Clemens discusses his work on how
the Great Recession affected employment and income for
low-skilled workers. Clemens is an assistant professor in
the Department of Economics at UC San Diego.
In this presentation, David Pedulla discusses his work on the
stigma of low-wage work based experimental field and survey
evidence. Pedulla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Sociology and a Faculty Research Associate of the Population
Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
In this Keynote presentation, Paul Osterman discusses the
low-wage labor market and policies that affect low-wage workers.
Osterman is the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Professor
of Human Resources and Management at the M.I.T. Sloan School of
Management as well as a member of the Department of Urban
Planning at M.I.T.
In this presentation, David Green discusses how the shifting
demands for job skills over time have changed labor markets for
all workers.
Green is a professor in the Vancouver School of Economics at the
University of British Columbia and an International Fellow at the
Institute for Fiscal Studies in London.
Scott W. Allard is a Professor at the Daniel J. Evans School
of Public Affairs at the University of Washington with expertise
in social welfare policy, federalism and intergovernmental
relationships, and urban policy. Allard is a nonresidential
senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy
Program and co-director of the Family Self-Sufficiency Data
Center at the University of Chicago Review.
This special podcast report describes a new study by center
director Ann Stevens and graduate student affiliate Chloe East
that examines how many workers at or near the minimum wage still
rely on safety net programs to help their families get by.
Listen now.
In this podcast, Harry Holzer and Center Director Ann Stevens
discuss how colleges have taken on the role of building the U.S.
labor force. In March, 2015, Holzer visited the center as a
Visiting Scholar to present the seminar “Building Labor Market
Skills among Disadvantaged Americans.”
In this podcast, Kathleen Short and Center Director Ann Stevens
discuss the Supplemental Poverty Measure and other attempts to
measure poverty throughout the nation. In November, 2014, Short
visited the center to present the seminar “The Supplemental
Poverty Measure for 2013: Latest Estimates and Research.”
In this presentation, Gavin Wright discusses Martha Bailey’s
paper, “How We Fought the War on Poverty: A Quantitative
History.”
Wright is the William Robertson Coe Professor of American
Economic History at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at
the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
In this presentation, Thesia Garner discusses James Sullivan’s
paper “Winning the War: Poverty from the Great Society to the
Great Recession.”
Garner is a Senior Research Economist in the Division of Price
and Index Number Research with the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
where she has served since 1984.
In this presentation, Martha Bailey discusses a quantitative
history of the War on Poverty.
Bailey is an Associate Professor of Economics and a Research
Associate Professor at the Population Studies Center at the
University of Michigan. She is also a Research Associate with the
National Bureau of Economic Research.
In this presentation, James Sullivan discusses the successes of
U.S. safety net programs from President Lyndon Johnson’s Great
Society program of the 1960s to the most recent economic
recession.
Sullivan is an Associate Professor of economics at the University
of Notre Dame, and a research affiliate of the National Poverty
Center at the University of Michigan.
In this presentation, Kent Germany discusses the War on Poverty,
the United States budget, and president Lyndon Johnson’s economic
vision.
Germany is an Assistant Professor of History and African American
Studies at the University of South Carolina and co-host of
For The Record, a PBS interview program on politics and
history.
In this October 2013 seminar, Center Faculty Affiliate Sasha
Abramsky discussed his work researching and writing about today’s
poor for his new book The American Way of Poverty: How the
Other Half Still Lives.
In this February 2013 seminar, Visiting Scholar Richard
Murnane discusses his recent work on trends and patterns in U.S.
high school graduation rates and their explanations, including
differences in findings depending on the data.
In this May 2012 seminar, Visiting Scholars Katherine S.
Newman and Rourke O’Brien discuss the way we tax the poor in the
United States, particularly in the American South, where poor
families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive
sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption.
