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Oregon Poverty Research Roundtable

OPRR is an informal gathering of researchers and practitioners who are interested in issues related to poverty alleviation and welfare reform. The Roundtable meets twice a year, typically in Fall and Spring. If you would like to be added to the Roundtable email list, please click here.

Past Agendas

Spring 2006
Presentations included:

• Child Care Subsidies and Employment Stability: Why Do They Leave?
• Access to Healthcare: The Neglected Side of Welfare Reform
• The TANF Shell Game

Spring 2004
Presentations included:

• Food Insecurity and Oregon TANF-Leavers
• Findings on Hunger from a State Health Survey: the BRFSS
• Poor Choices, Restricted Opportunities, Social Isolation, Ineffective Policy: Which Best Explains Food Insecurity in Oregon?

Spring 2003
Presentations included:

• Accounting for "Success": Diversion as a Welfare Reform Strategy
• Education and Welfare Reform in Oregon
• Using the Internet to Increase Program Outreach:  Early Lessons from Oregon Helps
• Why are Hunger Rates Higher in Oregon than in Other States?

Fall 2002
Presentations included:

• Oregon Data Sources

Spring 2001
Presentations included:

• Welfare Reform Implementation: Lessons from Massachusetts and Oregon
• Local Labor Market Conditions and the Jobless Rural Poor:  How Much Does it Take to Get a Job if  You Live in Rural Oregon
• Health Insurance Dynamics: New Descriptive Data from Oregon Medical Assistance Programs
• Experiences of Oregon Families Who Left Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) or Food Stamps: A Study of Economic and Family Well-Being from 1998-2000.

Fall 2001
Presentations included:

• Long-term followup of Even Start families in Oregon. Even Start is a federaly funded family literacy program that serves low income families with young children.
• An overview of methodlogy used to link administrative, survey, and geographic information systems (GIS) data in Cleveland, Ohio and the kinds of analyses of welfare reform this data collection made possible.