by Timothy Smeeding | Mar 14, 2013 | Videos
Economist Timothy Smeeding, director of the UW-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty, explores the “Great Recession” of recent years and its implications for employment, poverty and inequality in the U.S. Smeeding will also discuss the...
by Liam Kane-Grade | Nov 6, 2012 | Magazine Article
A good number of Wisconsinites, it is fair to assume, are unfamiliar with the Bark River in southeast Wisconsin. Starting in Richfield (not far from Milwaukee) and ending in Fort Atkinson, the Bark River is a tributary of the Rock River, which is itself a tributary of...
by Gwendolyn Rice | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
I could feel a draft moving through Milwaukee’s Broadway Theatre Center’s rehearsal hall that snowy January afternoon. The artistic directors from Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and Forward Theater Company leaned back in their folding chairs. “Whenever you are ready,”...
by Greg Hettmansberger | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
“Four rational people conversing” was how the brilliant writer and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe described to a friend in 1829 the genre of the string quartet. By this time in history, the particular ensemble of two violins, viola, and cello had been established for...
by Liaquat Ahamed | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
The global economy is racked by its worst crisis since the Great Depression. What are the lessons to be learned from the world economic collapse of the late 1920s and how might the current downturn affect our thinking a generation from now? Drawing on his Pulitzer...
