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 open to faculty,... More
Poverty & Inequality News
March, 2016
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 by May 2.
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... More
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 University of... 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 University. The series’... 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 improve economic... 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 before and after a... 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, job training... More
January, 2016
Abstracts are being accepted for a multidisciplinary social science conference on the rural-urban interface in the United States. The conference will be held September 29-30, 2016, at the University of Pennsylvania. Outstanding... More