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Minor in Poverty, Inequality, and Policy

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Monitoring the Crisis

The American Voices Project is monitoring the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on everyday life, with a special focus on people of color, the low-income population, and other groups that are disproportionately affected.

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Democracy Matters: Big Challenges for the Next Decade

Should the U.S. close its border to immigrants? What are the ramifications of income inequality? How has COVID-19 changed life as we know it? Why are Americans so politically polarized? How can we address racial injustice? Faculty members... More
National Poverty Fellows Program

The National Poverty Fellows Program, a federal government-university partnership that seeks to build the capacity of poverty and inequality researchers, is calling for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship. Applications are due... More
Postdoctoral Scholar in Poverty and Social Policy

The Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University is seeking a postdoctoral scholar with a social science PhD to conduct analyses of policy proposals related to poverty, inequality, economic security, hardship, and mobility... More
Poverty, Inequality, and COVID-19

Stanford and CPI scholars weigh in on COVID-19. Following the Economic Impact of COVID-19... More
Request for Articles: Suburban Inequality in the United States

Russell Sage Foundation calls for submissions to their forthcoming issue on suburban inequality. ... More

	Prime-Age Employment, September 2020	75.0%
	Official Poverty Measure, 2018	11.8%
	Supplemental Poverty Measure, 2018	13.1%
	Deep Poverty (OPM), 2018	5.3%
	90th/10th Percentile of Household Income, 2018	12.6