Roberta Rehner Iversen, MSS, PhD
Associate Professor
3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building,
Room D2
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6214
215.898.5529 (phone);
215.573.2099 (fax)
riversen@sp2.upenn.edu
Dr. Iversen uses ethnographic research to better understand and improve welfare and workforce development policy and programs.
- Dr. Iversen’s ethnographic accounts illuminate what low-income working parents need from secondary schools, job training organizations, businesses and firms, their children's public schools, and public policy in order to earn enough to support their families through work.
- Housing policy in Milwaukee, WI and workforce development programs and policy in New Orleans, LA, Seattle, WA, St. Louis, MO, and Philadelphia, PA have been improved by findings from Dr. Iversen’s research.
- Dr. Iversen’s new book, Jobs Aren't Enough: Toward a New Economic Mobility for Low-Income Families (2006; Temple University Press) presents new ways to increase the economic mobility of low-income families.
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