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The Institute for Policy Research
at Northwestern University
IPR Policy Briefing
Supported with funding from the
Joyce Foundation
The Evolution
of the Social Safety Net — Change for the Better?
Major components of the United States’ Social Safety Net
— from welfare to Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare
— have been radically transformed, some expanded and others
reduced, over the past decades. Millions of Americans depend on
various programs of this “Net” to lead productive and
healthy lives, but are these programs living up to their potential?
Come join our three experts as they present some of their recent
research on different aspects of public assistance.
Overview:
Therese
McGuire (Moderator),
IPR Faculty Fellow, Professor of Management and
Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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presentation
Panelists and
Presentations:
“Evaluating TANF: What Did (or
Didn't) Welfare Reform Accomplish?”
by Rebecca
M. Blank, Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public
Policy, Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy,
and Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; co-editor
of The New World of Welfare (Brookings Press, 2001).
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presentation
“The Changing Role of Medicaid:
From Babies to Boomers and Beyond”
by Leemore Dafny,
IPR Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Management and Strategy,
Kellogg, Northwestern University
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presentation
“The Increased Role of SSI in
Addressing Child Poverty”
by Melissa
S. Kearney, Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution
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presentation
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information on the presentations and panelists.
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(4k/53:20 min.)
Monday, December 5
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Kellogg School of Management, Wieboldt Hall
Northwestern University
340 E. Superior St., 4th floor
Chicago
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