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    News Arrow Kentucky Educational Television public affairs reporter Renee Shaw interviews UKCPR Director James Ziliak about his studies on poverty and its causes in a special KET report, "The Price of Poverty in Kentucky"

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Final Reports of the small grant recipients of the 2011 Research Program on Childhood Hunger are available here along with selected working papers of the large grant recipients.

       
    News Arrow In a recent interview on cn|2's "Pure Politics" with Ryan Alessi, UKCPR Director James Ziliak discusses the issues surrounding poverty and inequality.

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UKCPR Director James Ziliak comments on the concern over cuts to unemployment aid on the "Marketplace Morning Report" by David Gura.

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In an interview with Pam Fessler from NPR's "All Things Considered," UKCPR Director James Ziliak comments on the continued struggle of U.S. families to put enough food on the table based on the newly released report from the USDA's Economic Research Service, "Household Food Security in the United States in 2011."

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In a recent interview with WUKY, UKCPR Director James Ziliak discusses the topic of poverty in Appalachia. To listen to this interview click here.

UKCPR Director James Ziliak is the editor of Appalachian Legacy: Economic Opportunity after the War on Poverty, published by Brookings Institution Press in 2012.  The volume is based on a conference sponsored by UKCPR.

       
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UKCPR Director James Ziliak addresses the growing issue of senior hunger in America during an interview on NPR's "On Point" with Tom Ashbrook. To listen to this interview click here.

Further coverage of this topic may also be found in an article for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled "Hunger Among Senior Citizens Continues to Rise." In the article Dr. Ziliak remarks on his annual research report to the Meals on Wheels Research Foundation, pointing out the significant rise in senior hunger between 2005 and 2010.

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The Columbia Population Research Center is now accepting applications for the Fragile Families Summer Data Workshop to be held July 8-10, 2013 at the Comubia University School of Social Work in New York City.

Applications will be accepted until March 29, 2013. To view the full announcement click here.

       
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The National Poverty Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan invites applications to participate in a five-day summer workshop June 24-28, 2013 in Ann Arbor, Michigan.The workshop will introduce participants to the use of micro-data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP).

Learn more at http://npc.umich.edu/opportunities/RFA-2013-Summer-Workshop.pdf.

       
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UKCPR has updated its national dataset of state-level information, as of October 2010. The current data cover the years 1980-2010. Access data>>>

 
 
 

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