UMass McCormack - The Center for Social Policy: Our Team

Berna Kahraman


Research Fellow

Berna holds B.Sc.degrees in economics and management from Istanbul Bilgi University and London School of Economics and Political Science and a masters degree in European Public Administration from the Netherlands's Leiden University. She is currently a doctoral student at the Public Policy Program at UMass Boston. She has international policy research and analysis experience in multiple areas including workforce development, disability and ethnocultural policies and specializes in both qualitative and quantitative methods."

 

 

Noteworthy News

Françoise Carré Discusses President Obama's Jobs Summit on NECN
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Through funding from the Hyams Foundation and the Sociological Initiatives Fund, the Center for Social Policy contributed to this CHAPA Briefing Paper, authored by Ann Verrilli: The Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program: Maintaining the State’s Primary Homeless Prevention Tool, June
October 28, 2009
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Revenue Committee’s Subcommittee on Tax Expenditure Budgets:
Randy Albelda's testimony on Understanding and Reforming Tax Expenditures to the Massachusetts Legislature's Committee on Revenue.
October 28, 2009
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"Connecting Vulnerable Job Seekers with Employers." 2009.
Françoise Carré. Diversity Executive.com. September 13.
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Creative Economy Initiative:
Counting On Care Work: Human Infrastructure in Massachusetts by Randy Albelda, Mignon Duffy and Nancy Folbre
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FEATURED VIDEO from Reshaping Poverty Policy Conference
Youth Voices

 

Progressive Planning: The Magazine of Planners Network article:
Unaffordable "Affordable" Housing: Challenging the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Area Median Income
by Michael E. Stone

 

Citizen Lobbyists Speaking OUT for Real Health Care Reform.
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