Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

2016 is also the 20th anniversary of the most comprehensive reform of our welfare policies to date, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act of 1996. Our social welfare policies have continued to evolve since this reform, and this plenary brings together researchers, who in both academic and policymaking roles, have been highly influential in creating and using research evidence to make welfare programs more effective. Participants include Maria Cancian, Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work and former Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and most recently, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Robert Doar, the Morgridge Fellow in Poverty Studies at the American Enterprise Institute a former Commissioner of the New York City Human Resources Administration; Judy Gueron, independent scholar in residence and president emerita at MDRC and author of Fighting for Reliable Evidence; and Ronald Mincy, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice at Columbia University. Larry Mead, Professor of Politics at New York University and the author of numerous works on the politics and administration of welfare policy, will moderate the plenary.

This symposium will be held in the Lincoln room on the concourse level of the Washington Hilton.