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    The country’s leading experts provide the latest evidence on how millennials are faring.
     
  • Minor in Poverty, Inequality, and Policy
    New this year! 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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  • A new report, chaired by CPI affiliate Greg Duncan, shows how child poverty in the United States can be reduced by half within 10 years.... More
  • For the first time in its nearly 50-year history, the General Social Survey will provide information on respondents’ self-identified sex and gender. The research of CPI affiliate ... More
  • In this year’s State of the Union issue of Pathways Magazine, leading experts provide the latest evidence on how millennials are faring. Can they make it in the new gig economy? Are they facing higher rates of poverty than previous... More
  • The California Poverty Measure (CPM) statistics for 2017 are now available! Jointly produced by CPI and the Public Policy Institute of California, the CPM draws on administrative and survey data to deliver the state’s most comprehensive... More
  • Our sixth annual State of the Union issue of Pathways is now available! In this year’s issue, the country’s leading experts provide the latest evidence on how millennials are faring. Can they make it in the new gig economy? Are they facing... More