Education's Effect on Poverty: The Roles of Migration and Labor Markets here.

WCPC had the opportunity to ask Bruce Weber one of the authors of the work highlighted in WCPC Research Flash 2008-07 about his thoughts on completing this research.

Read the interview here.

This and other Poverty Research Flashes are available on the WCPC Publication page.

Old Assumptions, New Realities

The West Coast Poverty Center has organized its Seminar Series and upcoming Conference around the topic of Economic Security for Working Families in the 21st Century. Many policies that seek to address this issue are based on assumptions that are not necessarily in line with the new realities of poverty in the United States. Read more about the background of this incongruity here and here.

The West Coast Poverty Center invites applications for its 2008-09 Dissertation Fellowships

This program supports outstanding research on poverty, poverty-related issues, and anti-poverty policy in the U.S. by doctoral students at the University of Washington. Quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method approaches are welcome as are submissions from scholars in any discipline.

For more information and to download the RFP, please click here.

• Daily Journal of Commerce (07/15/08): Making affordable housing more efficient
• California Healthline (07/14/08): Medi-Cal Pay Crunch Destabilizes Homes for People With Disabilities
• The Times (07/13/08): Renters swept up in foreclosure storm
• New York Times (07/06/08): Employers Fight Tough Measures on Immigration
• USA Today (07/05/08): Urban, rural communities lack supply of affordable produce