Chapman sees how sound analysis can help communities tackle problems
From Mali to Salt Lake City, La Follette School student Anne Chapman has seen the importance of well-informed, motivated community leadership — and the essential role a skilled analyst can play in sharing expertise about policy ramifications. Read more ...
Collins plans to use technical skills to advance program, policy design
After working for several years in refugee resettlement, Linda Collins decided to broaden her skill set by going to graduate school. “I wanted to prepare myself for positions of greater influence or responsibility for program and policy design,” the second-year MIPA student says. Read more ...
Research examines child support, complex families
La Follette School professor Maria Cancian looks at child support and complex families in Fast Focus, an Institute for Research on Poverty publication. Read more ...
Cost-benefit scholarship earns recognition
A paper by professor David Weimer and co-author Aidan Vining was one of two finalists for the 2010 Kenneth J. Arrow Prize for Senior Economists. Read more ...
Faculty, alumni to share research at conference
La Follette School faculty and alumni are presenting research at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management’s fall research conference this week. Read more ...
Increase in U.S. poverty alarms Smeeding
“It’s really bad out there,” says Timothy Smeeding, director of Institute for Research on Poverty. “I have never been so depressed. This report is the worst report I’ve seen in 30 years. We’re supposedly a year out of recession and things are still slipping.” Read more ...
DeLeire to discuss public health coverage
Public health coverage is the topic of a La Follette School seminar on Tuesday, Sept. 13, at 12:30 p.m. in 8417 Sewell Social Sciences. Read more ...
Johnson plans to inform public policy decisions
Three years in Japan gave Rachel Johnson such intriguing insight into domestic social policy that now she is exploring U.S. domestic policy by earning a master of public affairs degree at the La Follette School. Read more ...
Antipoverty programs ease pain of recession, Wisconsin Poverty Measure finds
Expanded tax credits and food assistance programs helped to shield Wisconsin’s poorest residents from the worst effects of the recession, the third Wisconsin Poverty Report shows. Read more ...
Professors to receive award for paper on social equity, public administration
A paper by public affairs professors Donald Moynihan and Pamela Herd has won the Wilder School Award for Scholarship in Social Equity and Public Policy Analysis. Read more ...