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“Poverty Policy and the Politics of the Poor”  

Frances Fox Piven , Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 – 12:15pm

Armitage Hall, 3rd floor, Faculty Lounge

Lunch will be provided

 

Frances Fox Piven is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  Among her books, many co-authored with Richard A. Cloward, are Regulating the Poor, Poor People’s Movements, Why Americans Don’t Vote, Challenging Authority, Keeping Down the Black Vote, and Who’s Afraid of Frances Fox Piven: The Collected Writings of the Professor Glenn Beck Loves to Hate. 

Drawing on American history, Piven will present an overview of the two-sided relationship between welfare policy and the politics of the poor. There have been periods in the not-so-distant past when poor people became important political actors in the shaping of social policy.  Most of the time, however, including in our own time, policy is designed to inhibit influence by the poor.  Piven will delineate the conditions under which policy becomes an instrument to politically suppress the poor, and also, the conditions that encourage more democratic policy-making.

This event is co-hosted by the Urban Studies Program at Rutgers-Camden.

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CURE seminars are free and open to the public.  No registration is required. 
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Dr. Jargowsky’s research on poverty concentration in the new millenium was well received at this year’s APPAM Fall research conference in Washington, DC, November 6-9, 2013.  For a description of this talk, please visit: https://appam.confex.com/appam/2013/webprogram/Paper6572.html

An article featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Novemebr 10, 2013, entitled “A young professor in Camden to help – and learn” describes Dr. Stephen Danley’s interest and activities in Camden.  To read the article, please click the following link:

https://articles.philly.com/2013-11-10/news/43889701_1_john-danley-waterfront-south-philadelphia-and-camden#6LkpLvbbsusk3thm.99

Changes Across the Region:
People, Economy, and Well Being
Presented by Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn, Ph.D.

Wednesday, December 4th, 2013
1:00 – 4:00 PM 
Cumberland County College Luciano Conference Center 3322 College Drive in Vineland, NJ 08360  

Please register here

 

The Walter Rand Institute has reinstated its Faculty Fellow Program in order to facilitate applied research about issues of importance to the Southern New Jersey Region. We are pleased to announce that our Faculty Fellow for Fall 2013 is Dr. Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn.Dr. Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn received his Ph.D. in the field of Public Policy and Political Economy from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is currently Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers–Camden and the Data Center Manager at the Center for Urban Research and Education (CURE). He currently teaches graduate courses on Regional and Economic Development, Quantitative Methods, and Geographic Information Systems.

Dr. Okulicz-Kozaryn brings his expertise to WRI to investigate demographic, economic, and well-being factors across the Southern New Jersey region. His research will address issues of importance for a broad range of stakeholders:

• What employment sectors can be expected to grow?
• What assets are available to spur economic development?
• What impact has public health had across the region?
• How have migration patterns impacted the region?

Come to the WRI Forum About South Jersey on December 4 and be a part of the conversation as Dr. Okulicz-Kozaryn presents his findings and discusses their implications for the counties of Southern New Jersey.

For further inquiries, contact:
The Walter Rand Institute
411 Cooper Street
Camden, NJ 08102
(856) 225-6566
msk62@camden.rutgers.edu

“Concentration of Poverty in the New Millennium” 

Paul A. Jargowsky, Ph.D.

Professor of Public Policy, 
Rutgers University-Camden

 

Wednesday, November 6, 2013 – 12:15pm

Campus Center–Executive Private Dining Room

 

The problems of poverty are exacerbated when poor people live in dysfunctional high-poverty neighborhoods, where they are exposed to high levels of crime and violence and have limited access to educational and economic opportunities.  Growing up in such neighborhoods can affect children’s health and educational achievement.  This paper combines data from several sources to document the recent trends in concentrated poverty and the implications of those trends for social and housing policy.  Since 2000, the spatial concentration of poverty has surged, particularly since the housing crisis and recession began in 2008.  In particular, concentrated poverty has returned to and surpassed the peak levels of 1990, but with important differences in the distribution and composition of high-poverty neighborhoods.  For example, concentration of poverty has grown fastest among non-Hispanic whites.  High-poverty neighborhoods are substantially less likely to be composed of a single racial or ethnic group.   No longer confined to the central cities of major metropolitan areas, concentration of poverty has increased faster in smaller metropolitan areas.  Another change is that high-poverty census tracts are no longer found in one or two contiguous clusters, but are more widely scattered around metropolitan areas, including inner-ring suburban areas.  Concentration of poverty, therefore, remains an important social problem that is now affecting more groups in more diverse locations in the metropolitan landscape.