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August 2026 News & Events
Homelessness in LA
The CPI is ramping up its commitment to building an evidence-based roadmap for addressing homelessness. As part of this commitment, many CPI affiliates participated in a recent convening – organized by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and the USC Homelessness Policy Research Institute – to promote research on unsheltered homelessness in LA. The simple goal: To identify the research that needs to happen – now – to reduce human suffering. The CPI will soon be issuing a new proposal for helping counties build evidence-based policy on homelessness.
Basic Income Lab
The number of basic income experiments is taking off around the world. In collaboration with many colleagues, the CPI's Basic Income Lab recently updated its global map of hundreds of ongoing and completed experiments with different types of cash transfer programs. The map provides an extraordinary picture of the growing worry – around the world – about the pathway to a viable society.
Research Director Position
The Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University is seeking a Research Director. The mission: To develop the Center's research agenda, manage a portfolio spanning national, state, and local policy issues, and lead the research team.
CPI Summer Fellows
Have you ever wondered what summer at CPI is like? We're a beehive of activity as student researchers work with us on projects (a) developing new methods for listening to the voices of the people (e.g., the American Voices Project), (b) new approaches to monitoring trends in poverty and inequality (e.g., the social mobility lab), and (c) new policies for reducing poverty and inequality (e.g., cash transfer policy, homelessness policy, poverty policy). We work with student researchers who are generously supported by VPUE, SIEPR, DataSURF, and a Humanities Seed Grant.
The Profile Series ... dedicated to learning more about leading inequality scholars
In this month’s newsletter, we are pleased to highlight Susanna Loeb, Professor of Education at Stanford's Graduate School of Education. If ever you’ve doubted the viability of marrying a commitment to high-quality science with a commitment to building a better world, you would do well to study Susanna’s work carefully … as it defines precisely how that marriage can be a stunning success. We invite you to take a close look at her work on high-impact tutoring, on school choice initiatives, on parenting interventions, on substitute teaching shortages, on engaging girls in math, on early education, on literacy interventions, on school improvement grants, on teaching effectiveness, and on and on. Throughout all of this work, Susanna demonstrates how science and policy can work in tandem.