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September 2025 News & Events
CPI welcomes predoc Taisiya Tworek
We're pleased to welcome Tai Tworek, a predoctoral research fellow, to the Center on Poverty and Inequality. A graduate of Brown University in the Social Analysis and Research program, Tai has research interests in racial inequality, segregation, and spatial methods. She'll be working on our new administrative-data-based Next Generation Poverty Measure for California. Welcome Tai!
Census Releases 2024 Income and Poverty Data
The Census Bureau recently released national poverty and income data for calendar year 2024. The data show that real household income at the median and 10th percentile did not grow from 2023 to 2024, while real income at the 90th percentile grew by 4.2%. The poverty rate under the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) held steady from 2023 to 2024 at 12.9%. The data also show that safety net programs -- including tax credits, nutrition programs, and Social Security -- continued to lift substantial numbers of Americans out of poverty in 2024. It will be important to monitor the impact of recent policy changes (e.g. the passage of H.R. 1) on the overall poverty rate as well as rates within especially vulnerable groups.
The Profile Series ... dedicated to learning more about leading inequality scholars
In this month’s newsletter, we’re pleased to highlight Jackie Hwang, Director of the Changing Cities Research Lab and Associate Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. Why put the spotlight on Jackie? For a very simple reason: To understand inequality in U.S. cities, there’s no choice but to become a student of Jackie’s extensive work on gentrification, segregation, and technological change. In a recent paper published in Nature Cities, she and her students examine the distribution of surveillance cameras across major U.S. cities, applying computer vision to millions of Google Street View images. The key result is that surveillance is ramped up in neighborhoods in which white residents are present alongside communities of color. Please explore Jackie Hwang’s work!