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This 2020 report recommends 32 key federal, state, and local policy changes that would improve housing outcomes, advance racial and economic equity, and cultivate healthier communities.

A quick look at the issues and policies contained in Home Is Where Our Health Is.

This brief, published in partnership with Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, shares the success story of Milwaukee’s New Hope Project—a program with a package of work-based supports that included subsidized jobs, earnings supplements, affordable health care, and child care. New Hope provides a blueprint for creating holistic, work-based approaches that significantly improve employment and family outcomes for participants and their communities, during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Working Our Way Out of Poverty makes the case for adopting a 5-part policy package that would cut poverty in the U.S. by more than half. This 2015 report is the Public Policy Institute's foundational research paper.

This presentation by Public Policy Institute researchers accompanied the rollout of the PPI/Urban Institute report on reducing poverty by half in the U.S.

From the Urban Institute, this report communicates the results of a microsimulation analysis of the Community Advocates Public Policy Institute's five-part policy package.

By Indivar Dutta-Gupta, Kali Grant, the Public Policy Institute's Julie Kerksick, Dan Bloom, and Ajay Chaudry, this 2018 Russell Sage Foundation publication explores a national subsidized employment program to support low-wage workers and their employers.

In September 2012, the Public Policy Institute introduced its "Pathways to Ending Poverty" Project results. This presentation summarizes the policy package and the results.

In Wisconsin, we can no longer say that poverty reduction policies do not work, or that no one yet knows what it takes to greatly reduce poverty. This 2012 report outlines a policy package to cut poverty in Wisconsin.

Research suggests that low‐income adults accessing employment services have experienced high levels of trauma exposure and associated consequences. Moreover, the health‐related effects of trauma undermine employment and employability. This paper assesses the feasibility of integrating trauma screening within employment services.

From 2014: State and federal policymakers should look carefully at the decades-long success of the Wisconsin State Employee Health Plan (WSEHP) in controlling the rapid rise of health insurance costs in Dane County.

This report provides results from a Community Readiness Assessment conducted in 2014 by the City of MKE Tobacco-Free Alliance LGBTQ+ work group, which demonstrated the significant disparity of LGBTQ+ tobacco use and exposure and next steps.

From Youth Justice Milwaukee (YJM), this report argues that the crisis at Lincoln Hills/Copper Lake provides a critical opportunity for Milwaukee County to create a fairer, safer, and rehabilitative juvenile justice system.

From Youth First: Lessons learned from successful state campaigns to close youth prisons.