LEO Director, Jim Sullivan, and Bruce Meyer of University of Chicago today released the Consumption Poverty Report for 2016.  Contrary to numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau Tuesday (Sept. 12), Sullivan and Meyer show that poverty has fallen sharply...

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Today the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking (CEP) released its final report, The Promise of Evidence-Based Policymaking.  LEO co-Founder, Jim Sullivan, Associate Professor of Economics at Notre Dame, worked with policymakers on the creation of the Commission. In November 2016, he testified...

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In the August 2017 issue of Policy and Practice Magazine - a publication of the American Public Human Services Association - LEO Co-founder, Jim Sullivan, and President and CEO of Catholic Charities Fort Worth, Heather Reynolds talk about the challenges of changing...

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LEO Co-founder, Jim Sullivan, the Rev. Thomas J. McDonagh, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Economics, and co-author Bruce Meyer of University of Chicago, have a new NBER Working Paper demonstrating the changes in income inequality and consumption inequality over the past 50...

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The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame has received multiple funding awards totaling nearly $700,000 this summer to continue its work reducing poverty and improving lives through...

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Fundamental to the work that LEO does is the use of data to improve understanding of anti-poverty programs.  In a recent article for Real Clear Policy, Robert Doar, Morgridge Fellow of Poverty Studies at the American Enterprise Institute articulates the...

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In April 2017, Jim Sullivan, Associate Professor of Economics and co-Founder of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO), presented to practitioners and data administrators from across the country at the Spring Conference of the...

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LEO Faculty Affiliate Craig Gundersen sat down with the Washington Post to debunk some of the common misconceptions readers have about SNAP. Read the article here…

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James Sullivan, co-founder of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Development and Rev. Thomas J. McDonagh, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, will testify Nov. 4 in...

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