Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
The Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford University was founded as part of Stanford University's commitment to engage with the most pressing needs in the community. The Center is dedicated to:
- Monitoring trends in poverty and inequality and providing scholars, teachers, students, journalists, and others with easy access to customizable trend data
- Supporting innovative research and science-based approaches to understanding poverty and inequality
- Developing bold policy on poverty and inequality
- Training the next generation of scholars, policy analysts, and politicians
- Disseminating data, research, and policy analysis
"The Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, launched within the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, is a vital example of the University's commitment to strengthen teaching, research and policy analysis that directly engages large-scale problems of the 21st century. The Center's work - an analysis of poverty and inequality, the development of innovative proposals and programs, and the training of a new generation of scholars and policy-makers who have the tools and a solid, empirical grounding to lead critical debate on these issues - represents an important investment in new scholarship for the University. I am pleased that through this initiative, Stanford also has strengthened its leadership role in addressing one of the pressing problems of our age."
Richard P.Saller, Stanford University
Dean, School of Humanities & Sciences
For learn more about the Center, please visit the SCPI website.
