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January 2025
News and Opportunities
A New Report on Informal Caregiving
The CPI is pleased to announce the publication of The Hidden Costs of Informal Caregiving by Sarah Savage, Katherine Townsend Kiernan, and Erin Graves. Using the American Voices Project (AVP) data, the authors provide a rich qualitative portrait of informal caregiving among low-income populations. This publication is cosponsored by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
A Postdoc on the Transition to Young Adulthood
The Center for Research on Child and Family Wellbeing, located at Princeton University and directed by Kathy Edin, is offering a Postdoctoral Research Associate position. This position is open to scholars who study the transition to young adulthood and have experience working with the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study or similar longitudinal survey data. The appointment is available for the 2025 - 2026 academic year, with the possibility of renewal. Applications will be accepted through February 28, 2025.
The Puerto Rico Poverty Measure
Sara Kimberlin, Executive Director of CPI, recently presented at a webinar hosted by the Instituto del Desarrollo de la Juventud (IDJ) on the Puerto Rico Poverty Measure (PRPM). This new measure – a milestone in Puerto Rico’s poverty-reduction efforts – makes it possible to monitor trends in poverty, identify pockets of extremely high poverty, and evaluate anti-poverty programs. The CPI has been providing occasional advice to the IDJ on the development of this measure.
The Profile Series... dedicated to learning more about leading inequality scholars
Alexandra K. Murphy, an assistant professor of sociology and faculty affiliate of the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, received a CPI grant several years ago to develop a new measure of transportation insecurity. The brilliant idea behind this measure: We can't understand the fallout of transportation barriers and insecurity in the U.S. without measuring it...just as we can't understand food or housing insecurity without measuring them. This new measure of transportation insecurity has now been embraced as the gold standard in a recent National Academies report. And there's more! Alexandra is also working on the causes of transportation insecurity, the consequences of transportation insecurity, and a new book on suburban poverty (When Sidewalks End). It's time to take a close look at her important work!