Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality

Stanford University
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The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality has five objectives: to monitor trends in poverty and inequality, to support scientific analysis of poverty and inequality, to develop science-based policy on poverty and inequality, to disseminate data and research on poverty and inequality, and to train the next generation of scholars, policy analysts, and politicians.

  1. 11/29/2012

    Changes to Federal Aid Programs

    Diantha Parker and Indivar Dutta-Gupta discuss ways to address and fix poverty in the United States. They explain how different programs and policies can be altered and improved. (November 6, 2012)

  2. 05/01/2012

    How--and If--Recessions Affect Public Opinion

    Lane Kenworthy and Paul Taylor say recessions can change people's opinions on government and the economy -- but those new views don't always stick. (April 21, 2012)

  3. 02/13/2012

    Are Unplanned Pregnancies Always Unplanned?

    Paula England discusses surveys she conducted of women attending community college in the Bay Area regarding sex, contraception and pregnancies among lower socio-economic classes. (January 13, 2012)

  4. 11/11/2011

    Fertility and the Great Recession: Is It Spoiling the Mood?

    Fertility and bithrates tend to go down during recessions. But Duke University's Phillip S. Morgan says families responded to The Great Recession differently depending on where they lived...and who they voted for. (October 18, 2011)

  5. 10/31/2011

    Learning From Recoveries Past

    Michael Hout talks with Diantha Parker about how to recover from recessions and why methods that have worked for the United States in the past might not be as effective this time. (September 30, 2011)

  6. 10/10/2011

    Did the Great Recession Make Us All Philanthropists?

    Robert Reich says many people still gave money away during the Great Recession -- but for different reasons than they might have done in better times. (October 7, 2011)

  7. 08/17/2011

    Piecing Together the Puzzle of Executive Pay

    Diantha Parker talks to Alex Edmans, Jesse Fried, and Robert Frank about just what is going on with skyrocketing executive pay in recent years --and what to do about it.

  8. 08/17/2011

    Refashioning Income Supports for Children in Poverty

    Diantha Parker talks to Greg Duncan about new evidence suggesting a radically different approach to income support policies targeted at low-income families.

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The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality has five objectives: to monitor trends in poverty and inequality, to support scientific analysis of poverty and inequality, to develop science-based policy on poverty and inequality, to disseminate data and research on poverty and inequality, and to train the next generation of scholars, policy analysts, and politicians.

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