Institute for Research on Poverty receives national award
The award comes as IRP marks its 50th year of examining the causes of poverty and inequality in the United States and approaches to reduce them.
The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the nation’s longest standing center for poverty research, has been awarded a five-year, $9.5 million cooperative agreement to serve as the national Poverty Research Center. The award from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), the principal advisor to …