The De Jong Lecture in Social Demography
Was Welfare Reform a Success? How Minority Families are Faring
The 3nd annual De Jong Lecture will be held:
October 3, 2008
Nittany Lion Inn, Ballroom C
Penn State University Park Campus
1:15 pm
A reception will follow at 4:00 in the Alumni Lounge.
The conference is free.
Details and Registration
De Jong Lecture Details and Registration
A decade after the landmark welfare reform legislation, how are low-income families who have left welfare doing? Dr. Andrew J. Cherlin will report on results from the "Three-City Study," a study of over 400 low-income families in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, most of them African-American or Hispanic, to assess their well-being in the post-welfare-reform era. At the start of the study in 1999, the families were receiving welfare; but all of them had left the welfare program by the end of the study in 2005. He will trace their economic pathways during the six-year period and show the difference that employment, race, and ethnicity made in their strategies to respond to welfare reform.
Discussants will be Dr. Lisa Gennetian of the Brookings Institute and Dr. Paul Amato of Penn State.
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The conference is free.
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The De Jong Lecture is supported by the Gordon F. and Caroline M. De Jong Lecturship in Social Demography Endowment, administered jointly by the Department of Sociology and the Population Research Institute. More about the De Jong Lecture...
Past De Jong Lectures
2007: Social Class Health and Mortality Differentials: Are There Important Selection Effects?
2006 Inaugural Lecture: Migration and Race/Ethnic Diversity in the U.S.
Further Information
For more information about the De Jong Lecture in Social Demography, please contact:
Carolyn Scott
The Pennsylvania State University
Population Research Institute
601 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-6806
Fax: (814) 863-8342
Email: css7@psu.edu
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