Poverty & Inequality News
March, 2016
The Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group at the University of Chicago is offering summer schools in Bonn, Chicago, and Guangzhou. The schools will provide an overview of the study of inequality... More
March, 2016
The Department of Labor is soliciting proposals for research projects related to the well-being of wage earners, retirees, and job seekers. Grants will be awarded in the range of $10,000-$50,000 and the competition is... More
March, 2016
The Russell Sage Foundation is soliciting abstracts for a new journal issue devoted to understanding the effects of the changing ethnic, racial, and immigrant-origin composition of the U.S. population. Proposals are due... More
February, 2016
Results from the pilot of a new health-inclusive poverty measure suggest that public health insurance benefits and premium subsidies accounted for a substantial, one-third reduction in the poverty rate in Massachusetts.
February, 2016
The latest issue of Poverty Research Now from the Center for Poverty Research explores today’s labor markets and how they affect low-wage workers.
February, 2016
How do poor urban men make a living? What proportion have children? How many have been incarcerated? A new policy brief from the Institute for Research on Poverty and the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the... More
January, 2016
Cambridge University Press is soliciting proposals for a new book series entitled "Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity," edited by William A. (Sandy) Darity, Jr. of Duke... More
January, 2016
The Institute for Research on Poverty and the Russell Sage Foundation are collaborating on a new journal issue that will showcase a collection of innovative and targeted policy proposals intended to reduce poverty or... More
January, 2016
A new study from the Center for Poverty Research explores how economic wellbeing changes in households experiencing a childbirth. According to the study, the economic wellbeing of U.S. households falls in the months... More
January, 2016
California voters may be asked to decide in November whether to approve a poverty reduction initiative that would fund prenatal services, expanded childcare, early childhood education, after-school and summer programs,... More