December 3, 2012
"Surviving Poverty: The Role of Community Organizations in the Lives of Immigrant Mothers"
DINA OKAMOTO, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
November 5, 2012
"Inside the Refrigerator: Immigration Enforcement and Chilling Effects in Medicaid Participation"
TARA WATSON, Associate Professor of Economics, Williams College
October 19, 2012
"Socioeconomic Status and Mortality in Longitudinal Data"
JAMES WALKER,Professor of Economics, Director, Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
October 5, 2012
"Multigenerational Families and Food Insecurity"
JAMES P. ZILIAK, Carol Martin Gatton Chair in Microeconomics, Director, Center for Poverty Research, University of Kentucky
May 21, 2012
"The Effects of Health Care Benefits: A Randomized Trial for Disability Insurance Beneficiaries"
CHARLES MICHALOPOULOS, Chief Economist, MDRC (Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation)
May 14, 2012
"Re-Evaluating Assumptions about Behavior and Choice in Response to Public Assistance: A Behavioral Decision Analysis"
CRYSTAL HALL, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, University of Washington
May 7, 2012
"The War on Poverty’s Experiment in Public Medicine: Community Health Centers and the Mortality of Older Americans"
MARTHA BAILEY, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
ANDREW J. GOODMAN-BACON, Graduate Student of Economics, University of Michigan
April 30, 2012
"What is a “Good Neighborhood”?: Exploring the Choices of Low-Income Households in Portland"
LISA BATES, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
ELLEN BASSETT, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Portland State University
April 23, 2012
"Providing Medicaid Coverage for Former Foster Youth: Issues in Implementing the Affordable Care Act"
MARLA MCDANIEL, Senior Research Associate, The Urban Institute Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population
February 27, 2012
"The Fragile American: Hardship and Financial Troubles in the 21st Century"
LAURA MCCLOUD, Assistant Professor of Sociology & Social Work, Pacific Lutheran University
February 13, 2012
"The Role of Advertising in the Growth of the SNAP Caseload"
KATIE FITZPATRICK, Assistant Professor of Economics, Seattle University
January 30, 2012
"Statistical Discrimination, Employer Learning, and Employment Differentials by Race, Gender, and Education"
SEIK KIM, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Washington
December 5, 2011
"Complexity and Policy Visualization: Implications for Poverty Advocacy"
EVERT LINDQUIST, Professor of Public Administration, University of Victoria
November 14, 2011
"Who Really Cares About Neighborhood Mobility? Testing Assumptions about Housing Choice Voucher Holders’ Neighborhood Preferences"
MARTHA GALVEZ, Research Supervisor, WA-DSHS, Research and Data Analysis Division; and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, University of Washington
October 31, 2011
"The World Isn’t Linear or Additive: Understanding and Reducing the Effects of Poverty on Children and Parents"
TOM WEISNER, Professor of Anthropology in Departments of Psychiatry (Semel Institute) & Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles
October 24, 2011
"The Race Discrimination System"
BARBARA RESKIN, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Washington
October 10, 2011
"The Alleviation of Poverty: How Far Have We Come?"
ROBERT PLOTNICK, Professor of Public Affairs, University of Washington
May 23, 2011
"Homeless in San Francisco: Discourse, Space and Social Control"
TERESA GOWAN, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
May 16, 2011
"Child Wellbeing in Two-Parent Families: How do Characteristics and Relationships Matter?"
LONNIE BERGER, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison
May 9, 2011
"Child Wellbeing in Two-Parent Families: How do Characteristics and Relationships Matter?"
AJAY CHAUDRY, Senior Fellow, Urban Institute, Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population
JULIA HENLY, Associate Professor of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
May 5, 2011
"Social Justice, Inequality, and Cities"
LAURA PULIDO, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Geography, University of Southern California
NIK HEYNEN, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Georgia
MARILYN WATKINS, Policy Director, Economic Opportunity Institute
May 2, 2011
"The Role of Public Policy in Latino Student Access, Persistence & College Completion"
FRANCES CONTRERAS, Associate Professor of Education and of Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, University of Washington
April 15, 2011
"Do Paid Vacation and Sick Leave Promote Job Retention?"
HEATHER HILL, Assistant Professor of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
April 12, 2011
"London's Living Wage Campaign, Class Politics, and Public Scholarship"
JANE WILLS, Professor of Human Geography, Queen Mary at University of London
April 11, 2011
"The State of the Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era"
HILARY HOYNES, Professor of Economics, University of California - Davis
February 28, 2011
"Policy Devolution and the Racial Politics of Poverty Governance"
JOE SOSS, Professor, Cowles Chair for the Study of Public Service, University of Minnesota
February 18, 2011
"Big Bad Racists, Subtle Prejudice, and Minority Victims: An Agent-Based Analysis of the Dynamics of Racial Inequality"
QUINCY THOMAS STEWART, Professor of Sociology, Indiana University
February 16, 2011
"Citizenship as Local Practice: Race, Gender, and Recognition"
EVELYN NAKANO GLENN, Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and of Ethnic Studies, University of California - Berkeley
February 15, 2011
"Forced to Care: Race, Gender and the Obligation to Care"
EVELYN NAKANO GLENN, Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and of Ethnic Studies, University of California - Berkeley
February 14, 2011
"Undocumented 1.5 Generation Young Adults and the Transition to Work and Uncertainty"
ROBERTO GONZALES, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Washington
Jan 24, 2011
"Who Receives a Mortgage Modification? Race and Income Differentials in Loan Workouts"
J MICHAEL COLLINS, Assistant Professor of Consumer Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
December 10, 2010
"The Roots of Minority Under-Achievement in Higher Education"
DOUGLAS MASSEY, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Sponsored by the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE)
December 6, 2010
"Organized Labor and Racial Wage Inequality in the United States"
JAKE ROSENFELD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of Washington
November 15, 2010
"Depression During Pregnancy Increases Risk for Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight, Especially for Women Living in Poverty in US and Developing Countries"
NANCY GROTE, Research Associate Professor of Social Work, The University of Washington
AMELIA GAVIN, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Washington
November 8, 2010
"Inertia and Overwithholding: Explaining the Prevalence of Income Tax Refunds"
DAMON JONES, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, The Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Oct 8, 2010
“Surveying Socially Marginalized Groups in Add Health”
KATHLEEN HARRIS, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina
May 28, 2010
"Television and International Family Change: Implications for Population Health Programs and Policies"
RUKMALIE JAYAKODY, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Demography; Associate Director and Faculty Assistant for Developmental Infrastructure, Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University
May 17, 2010
"Family Policy at Work: Employment Benefits, Women, and Labour Force Participation in Canada"
MICHAEL J. PRINCE, Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy, University of Victoria
May 10, 2010
"Decisions Under Poverty: Savings Intentions in the Short and Long Term"
CRYSTAL HALL, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, University of Washington
April 26, 2010
Book Reception, A New Balance or New Tradeoffs? Policies to Support Gender Equality in the Home and Market: A celebration of two new books on gender equality and public policy (pdf)
JANET GORNICK, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, Director of Luxembourg Income Study, City University of New York
MARCIA MEYERS, Professor of Social Work and Public Affairs, University of Washington
BECKY PETTIT, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
JENNIFER HOOK, Research Scientist, Partners for Our Children, University of Washington
April 26, 2010
"Envisioning Real Utopias"
ERIK OLIN WRIGHT, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
April 12, 2010
"How Do Nonprofit Human Services Construct Social Citizenship in a Market-oriented Welfare State? The New Politics of Social Care"
ZEKE HASENFELD, Professor of Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles
March 1, 2010
"Child Support: Complex Families, Responsible Fatherhood, and the Quid Pro Quo"
MARIA CANCIAN, Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison
February 22, 2010
"Depression Among Female TANF Recipients in Washington State"
MARNA MILLER, Senior Research Associate, Washington State Institute for Public Policy
February 1, 2010
"Skid Rows or Suburban Services: How the Spatial Concentration of Antipoverty Nonprofits Can Explain Sector Size"
NICOLE ESPARZA, Assistant Professor of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California
January 25, 2010
"Economic Assimilation of Foreign-Born Workers in the United States"
SEIK KIM, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Washington
January 15, 2010
"House of Cards: Subprime Lending and its Impact on Communities of Color in California"
CAROLINA REID, Manager, Research Group, Community Development Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
November 16, 2009
"Socioeconomic Disparities in Child Health and Academic Achievement across the Elementary School Years: Evidence from the ECLS-Kindergarten Cohort"
RASHMITA MISTRY, Assistant Professor of Psychological Studies in Education, University of California, Los Angeles
November 9, 2009
"Native American Artists: Routes out of Personal and Community Poverty"
ANN MARKUSEN, Professor of Planning and Public Policy, Director of Project on Regional and Industrial Economics (PRIE), University of Minnesota
November 2, 2009
"Double Jeopardy: How Families with Employment Barriers Respond to California's Welfare Time Limit"
JANE MAULDON, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
October 19, 2009
"Invisible Men: Prison Growth and the Construction of Social Statistics"
BECKY PETTIT, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
October 13, 2009
"The Great Recession: What Comes Next for our Metronation"
BRUCE KATZ, Vice President, Brookings Institution and founding Director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program
October 9, 2009
"The Consequences of Racial Fluidity for Inequality in the United States"
ALIYA SAPERSTEIN, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
June 01, 2009
"The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Policy Reform"
CELESTE WATKINS-HAYES, Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, Northwestern University
May 18, 2009
"Poverty and Suburbs: A Historical Perspective"
MARGARET O'MARA, Assistant Professor of History, University of Washington
May 4, 2009
"The Impact of Immigration Enforcement Raids on Children"
AJAY CHAUDRY, Director, Urban Institute Center on Labor, Human Services and Population
April 13, 2009
"Beyond the Poverty Paradigm: Social Research and Political Imagination in Two Eras of Progressive Reform"
ALICE O'CONNOR, Professor of History, University of California Santa Barbara
April 3, 2009
"Does Moving To Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program"
STEFANIE DELUCA, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
March 9, 2009
"Material Hardship and Macroeconomic Performance Across Space, Time and Race"
COLLEEN HEFLIN, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs, University of Missouri
February 23, 2009
"Impacts of Tolling on Low-Income Populations in the Puget Sound"
ROBERT PLOTNICK, Professor of Public Affairs, University of Washington
JENNIFER ROMICH, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Washington
JENNIFER THACKER, Research Strategist of Development Research and Relationship Management
February 9, 2009
"Inequality and the Urban Spatial Structure"
PAUL ONG, Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare and Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
January 26, 2009
"One Size Fits 20%? Client Perspectives on Welfare Reform"
SANDRA DANZIGER, Professor of Social Work and Research Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan
January 16, 2009
"Fathers' Involvement in Fragile Families: Patterns and Implications for Children"
MARCIA CARLSON, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
January 15, 2009
"Differences in Social Transfer Support and Poverty for Immigrant Families with Children: Lessons from the LIS"
TIM SMEEDING, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, La Follette School of Public Affairs, Director, Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
December 5, 2008
"Brokered Boundaries: The Construction of Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times"
DOUGLAS S. MASSEY, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
December 1, 2008
"Navigating the Welfare Reform Aftermath: How Survivors of Domestic Violence are Faring"
TARYN LINDHORST, Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Washington
ILENE STOLL, Economic Justice Program Coordinator, Washington State Coalition against Domestic Violence
TRACI UNDERWOOD, Economic Justice Program Specialist, Washington State Coalition against Domestic Violence
November 17, 2008
"Outsourced: Hospital Cleaners and Support Workers in Vancouver"
DANIYAL ZUBERI, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia
November 3, 2008
"Race and Ethnic Disparities in Educational Ambitions and the Transition to College"
CHARLES HIRSCHMAN, Boeing International Professor of Sociology and Professor of Public Affairs, University of Washington
October 27, 2008
"Poverty, Legal Status, and Pay Basis in U.S. Agriculture"
ANITA ALVES PENA, Assistant Professor of Economics, Colorado State University
June 2, 2008
"Social Supports for Mothers: Does Childbearing Affect Support, and Does Support Affect Childbearing?"
KRISTEN HARKNETT, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
May 12, 2008
"Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Childbearing"
FRANK FURSTENBERG JR., Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology and Research Associate, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
April 28, 2008
"Changes is Marriage, Childbearing and Employment: Implications for Poverty Trends"
DEBORAH REED, Director of Research, Senior Fellow, and Thomas C. Sutton Chair in Policy Research, Public Policy Institute of California
April 25, 2008
"How Representative are Chicago Ghettos? Organizational Density, Outlier Cities, and Neighborhood Effects"
MARIO LUIS SMALL, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
April 21, 2008
"What a Difference A Measure Makes: New Perspectives on Washington State Poverty and New Applications in Anti-Poverty Programs"
DIANA PEARCE, Senior Lecturer and Director, Center for Women’s Welfare, University of Washington
April 7, 2008
"Why Do Rich Countries Have Poor People? Being "Poor" in the US and UK"
AMY GLASMEIER, Professor of Geography and Regional Planning, Pennsylvania State University
March 10, 2008
"Passing the Buck: Employer Strategies for Transferring Risk onto Low-Skilled Jobs"
SUSAN LAMBERT, Associate Professor of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
February 25, 2008
"The Rise of State Agency/NGO Collaboration Against Food Insecurity in West Coast States"
MARK EDWARDS, Associate Professor of Sociology, Oregon State University
February 11, 2008
"Dumping Grounds and Unseen Grounds: Placing Poverty, Race, and Ethnicity in the Rural American Northwest"
VICTORIA LAWSON, Professor of Geography, University of Washington
LUCY JAROSZ, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Washington
ANNE BONDS, Doctoral Candidate, Geography, University of Washington
January 28, 2008
"Rural-Urban Migration and Poverty: The Influence of Local Economic Conditions"
BRUCE WEBER, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Co-Director of RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center, Director of Rural Studies Program, Oregon State University
January 14, 2008
"Serving Work: Understanding Variation in the Quality of Minimum Wage Waitstaff Jobs in Washington State, the U.S., and Canada"
ANNA HALEY-LOCK, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Washington
December 3, 2007
"Getting There or Losing Out: Place, Race, and Access to the Safety Net"
SCOTT ALLARD, John Hazen White Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Brown University
November 19, 2007
"Housing the Poor: What We Know and How it Matters for Public Housing Policy"
RACHEL KLEIT, Associate Professor of Public Affairs, University of Washington
ANDRIA LAZAGA, Asset Management Coordinator, Seattle Housing Authority
November 5, 2007
"Transitions to Adulthood for Foster Youth: Outcomes Through Age 21 and Implications for Social Policy"
MARK E. COURTNEY, Executive Director, Partners for Our Children, Ballmer Endowed Chair for Child Well-Being, School of Social Work, University of Washington
October 22, 2007
"Depression and Pre-Term Delivery among African American Women"
AMELIA GAVIN, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Washington
October 8, 2007
"Can New Hope Help the Working Poor and Their Children?"
GREG DUNCAN, Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
JENNIFER ROMICH, Assistant Professor of Social Work, University of Washington
May 25, 2007
"How Does the Gender of Parents Matter?"
TIM BIBLARZ, Associate Professor, University of Southern California
May 14, 2007
"Cross-National Perspectives in Poverty Measurement and Reduction: China and India"
DEVIN JOSHI, Doctoral Candidate in Political Science, University of Washington
April 23, 2007
"Payday Lending and Low Income Credit Markets"
ALEXES HARRIS, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
BARBARA RESKIN, Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
April 18, 2007
"Perspectives on Economic Citizenship"
ALICE KESSLER-HARRIS, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History, Columbia University
April 9, 2007
"Beyond Employment: On the Social Contributions of Citizens"
JOHN TAMBORNINO, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Western Washington University
February 26, 2007
"Reconstructing the Legacy of Racial Violence"
STEWART TOLNAY, Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
AMY BAILEY, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, West Coast Poverty Center Fellow, Lynching Project Manager
February 12, 2007
"Understanding `Power Talk’: Language, Public Policy, and Democracy"
JOCELYN CROWLEY, Associate Professor of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University
January 29, 2007
"Social Capital and Welfare Reform"
JO ANNE SCHNEIDER, Associate Research Professor of Public Policy and Anthropology, George Washington University
January 24, 2007
"Mothers, Poverty, and Public Policy"
NANCY FOLBRE, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts
January 12, 2007
"The Influence of Early-Life Events on Human Capital, Health Status, and Labor Market Outcomes Over the Life Course"
RUCKER C. JOHNSON, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
December 4, 2006
"High School Completion and Immigrant Generations"
KRISTA PERREIRA, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
November 15, 2006
"Devolution and Discipline: Race, Place, and Performance in the Politics of Social Control"
JOE SOSS, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin at Madison
November 6, 2006
"A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Mothers"
LEW GILCHRIST, Endowed Professor of Social Work Practice and Women’s Health, University of Washington
October 27, 2006
"The Costs of Concentrated Poverty"
GEORGE GALSTER, Professor of Urban Affairs, Wayne State University, Detroit
October 23, 2006
"Mixed Signals: Multiracial Classification and the Blurring of the Poverty Line"
TONY PEREZ, Post-Doctoral Fellow of Sociology, University of Washington
October 9, 2006
Welcoming Reception and Inaugural Speaker
TONY EVANS, Lecturer in Social Work, University of York
