November 24, 2009
December 3, 2009
Disability and Poverty: What Is the Connection and What Should We Do About It?
12:00-1:30 pm
Mathematica Policy Research
600 Maryland Ave., SW, Suite 550, Washington, D.C.
CEPR’s Shawn Fremstad participated in this forum, the seventh in the Center for Studying Disability Policy’s bi-monthly lunchtime seminar series.
Additional speakers included Gina Livermore, Senior Researcher at Mathematica, and Pamela J. Loprest, Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute.
The speakers presented the policy implications of recent statistics about the extent to which 1) people who live in poverty have disabilities, and 2) those with disabilities experience economic hardship. Gina Livermore shared findings from several recent Mathematica studies focusing on these issues. Shawn Fremstad and Pamela J. Loprest discussed the implications of these findings for public policy and the official measurement of poverty.
