Latest Issue of Focus from Institute for Research on Poverty highlights Papers from RUPRI Rural Poverty Conference

The October 2018 issue of Focus from the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin highlights papers from the RUPRI “RuralPoverty: Fifty Years After The People Left Behind” Conference presented in Washington, DC in March. View Focus 2018 issue This issue includes two articles that draw from the conference. The first, by Bruce Weber, summarizes papers …

Rural Poverty: Fifty Years After The People Left Behind Webinar

September 12, 2018 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Please join The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty for a webinar, a follow-up to RUPRI’s Rural Poverty Research Conference – Rural Poverty: Fifty Years After the People Left Behind, on September 12, 2018 at 2:00pm EST/1:00pm CST. The webinar will feature Ann Tickamyer and RUPRI’s Bruce Weber. View PDF …

LIVESTREAM National Conference: Multidisciplinary social science conference on rural poverty in the United States on the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 report of the President’s National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty entitled The People Left Behind.

March 21, 2018 – March 22, 2018 An Invited conference lifting up multidisciplinary social science research on rural poverty in the United States on the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 report of the President’s National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty entitled The People Left Behind. This report focused attention on the economic and social conditions of the 14 million …

Rural Poverty, Fifty Years After The People Left Behind – A Research Conference. Looking Backward and Forward.

An Invited conference lifting up multidisciplinary social science research on rural poverty in the United States on the 50thAnniversary of the 1967 report of the President’s National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty entitled The People Left Behind. This report focused attention on the economic and social conditions of the 14 million rural people living in poverty, …