The Effectiveness of the Massachusetts Workforce Development System

Mar 26, 2004, 12:00 am EST
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Steve Raphael, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley. Read "Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Massachusetts Workforce Development System Using No-Shows as a Non-Experimental Comparison Group."
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Color-Blind Affirmative Action

Mar 31, 2004, 12:00 am EST
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Glenn Loury, University Professor and Professor of Economics at Boston University. Read Color-Blind Affirmative Action.
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After Welfare Reform: Policy and Research Issues

Jun 16, 2004, 12:00 am EDT
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Kristin S. Seefeldt, Research Investigator, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Read Michigan's Welfare System. Douglas J. Besharov, Joseph J. and Violet Jacobs Scholar in Social Welfare Studies, American Enterprise Institute and Professor of Public Affairs, University of Maryland. Research from the Welfare Reform Academy. Sheldon H. Danziger, National Poverty Center Co-Director; Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R.
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Immigration and Poverty: Research and Policy Issues

Jun 15, 2004, 12:00 am EDT
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Cecilia Munoz, Vice President, Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation, National Council of La Raza. James P. Smith, Senior Economist, Rand Corporation. Philip L. Martin, Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California-Davis. Read Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America.
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Qualitative Research on Urban Poverty

Jun 14, 2004, 12:00 am EDT
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Elijah Anderson, Charles and William L. Day Distinguished Professor of the Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Read The Community Consequences of Welfare Reform. Christina Gibson, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies, Center for Child and Family Policy, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University.
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Poverty in America: Empirical Trends and Theoretical Explanations

Jun 14, 2004, 12:00 am EDT
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
June 14- 18, 2004 Ann Arbor, MI Download the reading list for this workshop. This workshop was designed as an intense mini-graduate course on poverty, providing the background to persons who want to offer undergraduate courses or engage in poverty-related research but who did not receive substantive training about poverty research in their graduate work. The instructors for the workshop were University of Michigan
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