An Ohio teacher and researcher will discuss two major American social issues during a public program Friday [Jan. 19] at Mississippi State University.
"Welfare Reform and the Economic Well-Being of Rural Single Mothers" is Daniel T. Lichter's topic for a 2 p.m. presentation in the Simrall Hall auditorium. MSU's Social Science Research Center is sponsoring his campus visit.
An authority in family and welfare issues, he is the Robert F. Lazarus Professor in Population Studies at Ohio State University and a faculty associate at the school's John Glenn Institute of Public Affairs. He also coordinates the university's new Initiative in Population Research and chairs the sociology department's program in population, health and life.
Last year, as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York City, he researched the long-term effects of poverty, welfare and family instability on social behavior in adolescents and young adults. That effort resulted in the recent publication of "Rural America in Transition: Poverty and Welfare at the Turn of the 21st Century."
In addition to serving as a member of the census advisory committee for the Population Association of America, he also is an advisory council member of Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty and Purdue University's Center for Families.
Lichter holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin.
For more information about the program, telephone (662) 325-7127.
