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Read the full article on the abandoned housing interactive mapping project engendered by our partners at CamConnect…

Please consider making a donation for New Visions Homeless Day Shelter in Camden.  CURE is partnering with NJ PIRG at Rutgers-Camden to collect items and/or monetary donations for this organization, such as:

• Baby items (formula, jars of food, diapers)

• Canned goods (peanut butter, jelly, spaghetti o’s, fruit, etc)

• Cleaning supplies (bleach, Cleaning Wipes, Lysol)

• Laundry detergent

• Clothing (Men’s, Women’s, and Children’s)

• Toiletries (Razors, Shaving Cream, Toothpaste, Toothbrushes, Deodorant, Feminine Products, Soap, and Shampoo)

• Towels / Sleeping Bags / Bed Linens

      Dr. Jeounghee Kim is an Associate Professor at School of Social Work, Rutgers University in New Brunswick. She studies the economic well-being and mobility of disadvantaged individuals and conducts quantitative data analyses applying longitudinal research methods to large public data. She is particularly interested in how human capital (e.g., education, training, and workforce development, etc.) and various public assistance policies and programs (e.g., income security, food assistance, Workforce Investment Act, etc.) affect the labor market and marriage outcomes of individuals with disadvantaged backgrounds. She is currently examining how immigrants’ post-immigration college enrollment and job training activities as well as their labor market returns to those activities vary by socioeconomic status using the Survey of Income and Program Participation. She also teaches policy analysis, social welfare policies and services, and women’s issues for MSW and PhD programs. She earned her doctoral degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. 

“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