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    The country’s leading experts provide the latest evidence on how millennials are faring.
     
  • Minor in Poverty, Inequality, and Policy
    Enroll now to minor in poverty, inequality, and policy.
     
  • American Voices Project
    Every community in the United States is unique and faces its own set of challenges and triumphs.
     
  • Poverty in California
    Are there 20,000 Californians in deep poverty? 200,000? Or 2 million? Drawing on administrative and survey data, the California Poverty Measure is the best and most comprehensive measure of poverty in California.
     
  • Stanford Poverty and Technology Lab
    The lab brings together Stanford students and faculty, Silicon Valley leaders, and experts in the government and nonprofit sectors to incubate technology-based solutions to poverty and inequality.
     

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  • New research from CPI research group leader David Pedulla illuminates the challenges faced by people whose employment histories include part-time, temporary agency, or mismatched work. ... More
  • The American Voices Project invites Stanford undergraduates to apply for summer research fellowships. The AVP's simple purpose: To listen to people and understand their successes and struggles, their hopes and dreams, and their ideas for... More
  • The American Voices Project (AVP) is expanding its mission to monitor the effects of the crisis on everyday life. By adapting its “patented” face-to-face interview to a new remote mode, the AVP is able to continue delivering the country’s... More
  • Stanford scholars weigh in on COVID-19. Systemic racism does not stay home during a... More
  • With 16 million new unemployment claims and disproportionate deaths among African-Americans, COVID-19 is upending the labor market and highlighting long-standing inequalities. Read up on the latest research on how this pandemic is... More