Stanford and Harvard will combine their research efforts for an ambitious study of why there are 37 million Americans living in poverty.

Harvard and Stanford universities are teaming up to tackle poverty and inequality in the U.S.

The Collaboration for Poverty Research will focus on issues including education, housing and health care reform and the poor, and urban violence.

Stanford and Harvard are launching a project to develop and evaluate a national policy on poverty and inequality in America.

The Collaboration for Poverty Research will tap the intellectual resources of both institutions to focus attention and garner public support for new measures to attack and solve one of the most significant public problems of our time.

The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality is working to present a clearer picture of the poor by regularly calculating and publishing an alternative to the official poverty index, an outdated yardstick developed in 1963. The new Stanford Poverty Count aims to provide an accurate measure of how much poverty there is in the United States.

With the economy eclipsing the Iraq war as Americans' top concern this election year and the gap between rich and poor at its widest in 80 years, the timing of a new magazine on economic inequality seems right on the money.

Timely, too, are the contributors. The inaugural issue of Pathways, published by Stanford University's Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, boasts the bylines of Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama.

The Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality at Stanford has launched a new magazine called Pathways to highlight policy debates about wealth and poverty in America.

The war on poverty has a new arsenal: Stanford's recently-launched Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (SCSPI), which opened this fall as part of the Stanford Challenge.

David Grusky thinks it's time for a revolution in how we think about poverty, just as Silicon Valley helped transform how society thinks about green issues. (full text provided by Poverty News Blog).

Understanding Poverty: New Center Takes an Interdisciplinary Stance.

Stanford University and UC Berkeley have joined a trend among the nation's elite universities and are developing centers dedicated to fighting poverty worldwide as economic inequalities grow ever starker.

New programs focusing on problems of governance and poverty at the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) aim to position Stanford as a leader of cutting-edge multidisciplinary research in a range of thorny issues facing society.