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The Institute for Policy Research
Speakers: “How New Hope Kept Families Out of Poverty and Boosted Child Achievement"
Greg Duncan, an economist and IPR faculty fellow, has published extensively on many issues including income distribution, child poverty, and welfare dependence. He is the author or editor of 12 books, including Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children (with A. C. Huston and T. S. Weisner), For Better and For Worse: Welfare Reform and the Well-Being of Children and Families (with P. L. Chase-Lansdale), and Consequences of Growing up Poor (with J. Brooks-Gunn). Duncan is a member of the interdisciplinary Family and Child Well-Being Research Network of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy. He is Edwina S. Tarry Professor of Education and Social Policy, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and president-elect of the Population Association of America and the Society for Research in Child Development.
Julie Kerksick is director of the New Hope Project and one of the project's original organizers. She works with and on behalf of unemployed and low-income workers. She has helped design public policy to assist unemployed and underemployed workers and translated those policies to operating programs and procedures. Kerksick was an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy. She is currently a member of the steering committee of the National Transitional Jobs Network and serves on the board of directors for First Service Credit Union.
Panelists:
King Harris is chairman of Harris Holdings, Inc. and a senior executive at Chicago Metropolis 2020 where he focuses on affordable housing issues. Between 1971 and 2000, he worked at Pittway Corporation (NYSE), a diversified manufacturing and publishing company, serving as its president and CEO from 1987 to 2000. Before working at Pittway, he spent nearly five years as a community development worker in Lota, Chile, with the Peace Corps and in Revere and Malden, Massachusetts, with the U. S. Office of Economic Opportunity.
Michael Alvarez is the outreach coordinator for U.S. Senator Barack Obama. He provides strategic and political counsel to the senator and his staff and acts as liaison to various constituency and ethnic groups. He also is responsible for communicating and negotiating with city, state, county, and federal elected officials on a variety of constituent initiatives. Previously, Alvarez served as the deputy director for community relations and subsequently, regional manager for the Illinois Department of Employment Security in Chicago.
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