A researcher with the Wisconsin Poverty Project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) is sharing project findings at an upcoming antipoverty summit.
The conference -- the Wisconsin Economic Summit: From Poverty to Financial Security -- is being organized by Rehabilitation for Wisconsin in Action, a nonprofit organization that supports community rehabilitation programs that enable people with disabilities and economic disadvantages to live and work in their local communities.
Julia Isaacs—IRP Visiting Scholar, Affiliate, coauthor of the annual Wisconsin Poverty Report, and Child and Family Policy Fellow at Brookings Institution—will speak at the summit, which is convening state agency heads, policymakers, private nonprofit groups, and other concerned citizens on October 26 and 27 in Kohler.
The Wisconsin Poverty Project is providing a more accurate tally of unmet need throughout the state than does the official measure and a gauge of antipoverty programs’ effectiveness.
Isaacs’s other work includes a joint IRP-Brookings project that is examining the most effective policies to help children escape poverty. Her summit talk will share Wisconsin Poverty Project findings about “The Faces of People with Economic Disadvantages in Wisconsin.”
Other summit speakers include Reggie Newson, Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Deputy Secretary; Howard Garber, President, Milwaukee Center for Independence; Dean Loumos, Executive Director, Housing Initiatives; and Marijo Upshaw, Leader of Financial Services for Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin, Inc.