The West Coast Poverty Center Seminar on Poverty and Social Policy is a 1-credit course that may be used as elective credit and meets Mondays at 12:30-1:30.
Course Enrollment Information:
Soc Wl 556A
SLN: 20627
*Date and Location, plus speaker and topic*
*Monday, September 29*
School of Social Work, Room 116
12:30-1:30 p.m.
*Student Session*
Open to students registered to receive credit for the seminar. Meet other students and West Coast Poverty Center faculty affiliates who are studying issues related to poverty and inequality.
*Monday, October 6*
Parrington Hall, Room 309
12:30-1:30 p.m.
(Q&A to 2:00 p.m.)
*”How Well Does the ‘Safety Net’ Work for Family Safety Nets? Economic Survival Strategies Among Grandmother Caregivers in Severe Deprivation”* LASHAWNDA PITTMAN, American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington *Friday, October 17* Raitt Hall, Room 121
12:30-1:30 p.m.
*Talk Title TBA*
MARCI YBARRA, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago *Co-sponsored with CSDE
*Monday, November 3*
School of Social Work
Room 305
12:30-1:30 p.m.
(Q&A to 2:00 p.m.)
*”Children’s Well-being in Contemporary China: Poverty and Inequality in the Children’s Well-Being Survey 2014″* WEN-JUI HAN, New York University and NYU-ECNU Institute for Social Development at NYU Shanghai
*Monday, November 17*
Parrington Hall, Room 308
12:30-1:30 p.m.
(Q&A to 2:00 p.m.) *”Surviving the Great Recession: Growing Need and the Stigmatized Safety Net”* JENNIFER SHERMAN, Department of Sociology, Washington State University *Monday, December 1* Parrington Hall, Room 309
12:30-1:30 p.m.
(Q&A to 2:00 p.m.) *”Are Parental Welfare Work Requirements Good for Children? Evidence from Age-of Youngest-Child Exemptions”* CHRIS HERBST, School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University
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*West Coast Poverty Center*
Facilitating nationally significant, locally relevant social policy research by connecting scholars, policymakers and practitioners; magnifying the reach of new knowledge; and fostering the next generation of anti-poverty scholars.
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