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December 2025 News & Events
Changes in California's Safety Net
The California Poverty Measure, which is co-produced by the CPI and the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), was featured in a recent discussion of the effects of the shutdown on low-income Californians. If you’re interested in how California’s Department of Social Services (CDSS) is mobilizing for other impending changes to California’s safety net, please check out the links below.
Predoc & Postdoc Opportunities
The country’s core research labs on poverty and inequality continue to grow and expand to meet the need for high-quality evidence. The HKS-Shift Project, the country’s leading lab on precarious work, is recruiting up to three full-time predoctoral research fellows to start in fall 2026. The Schachter lab, one of the leaders in applying cutting-edge methods to understand immigration and inequality, is taking applications for a postdoc.
Call for Research on Heterogeneous Families
In celebration of the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study's (FFCWS) 25th anniversary, the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is soliciting proposals to expand the FFCWS. The goal: To better understand how today's heterogenous families form, grow, change, and thrive. Proposals are due on January 6, 2026.
The Profile Series ... dedicated to learning more about leading inequality scholars
In this month’s newsletter, we’re pleased to highlight Lukas Althoff, an assistant professor of economics at Stanford and a faculty fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. His simple – but audacious – mission: To understand the causes and consequences of long-term economic progress and inequality. In a recently published article (America’s Got Talent: The Case for Investing in Public Education), Lukas shows that the rise of public schooling broke the link between parental resources and their children’s futures, thus unleashing talent that would otherwise have gone untapped.