Our Mission
- 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
Harvard Kennedy School and Stanford University
to Collaborate on Poverty Research Project
Project to focus on poverty and inequality in America
A new collaborative effort, bringing together faculty and scholars
from Harvard and Stanford Universities, is being launched to
develop and evaluate national policy on poverty and inequality in
America. The
Collaboration for Poverty Research (CPR)
will tap the vast intellectual resources of both institutions,
leveraging their combined convening power to focus attention and
garner public support for new measures to attack and solve one of
the most significant public problems of our time.
More...
Spring Issue of Pathways Now Available!
What lessons can we learn from antipoverty initiatives around the world?
- Joshua Cohen and Charles Sabel argue that the time has come to build a 21st century labor market modeled on key principles of Denmark's "flexicurity" system.
- In our new "Spotlight On" feature, we talk with Growing Power's Will and Erika Allen about the potential and future of urban agriculture in combating poverty.
- Browse the full issue.
Why Is There Inequality?
This year-long (November 2008 - May 2009) lecture series examined the sources and
causes of inequality.
Stanford University: Wallenberg Hall, Peter Wallenberg Learning Theater
