Poverty Research Flash: The Structure of Teenage Employment

The September issue of the Poverty Research Flash highlights new findings by West Coast Poverty Center Affiliate Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy, University of Washington and Irina Voloshin, Doctoral Candidate and Research Assistant in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington, published in the article "The Structure of Teenage Employment: Social Background and the Jobs Held by High School Seniors" in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Vol. 25, Issue 3 (October 2007).

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

WCPC 2008-2009 Seminar Series

Please join us as we kick off the Fall '08 seminar series on Monday, October 27th with a presentation by Anita Alves Pena on Poverty, Legal Status, and Pay Basis in U.S. Agriculture [read more].

View the Fall 2008 Schedule here

Explaining Race, Poverty and Gender Disparities in Advanced Course-Taking

Students and Faculty are invited to this Evans School Research Seminar
Mark Long, Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Explaining Race, Poverty and Gender Disparities in Advanced Course-Taking
10/27, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Parrington Hall Forum (Room 309)

Marcia Meyers, Director of WCPC, quoted in the Seattle PI

Marcia Meyers was quoted in the recent article Economic boom left out working poor, but bust won't which ran on October 15th in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Taryn Lindhorst Honored by American Journal of Public Health

The editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Public Health has announced that WCPC Faculty Affiliate Taryn Lindhorst has been selected by the editorial team to receive the Reviewer of the Year Award for 2008. The editor cited Dr. Lindhorst as the peer reviewer ?who has done the most to strengthen papers in the service of public health. Dr. Lindhorst will be publicly recognized for her service on October 27, 2008, at the American Public Health Association meeting in San Diego.