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...

The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality Mission

The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality seeks answers to two questions:
      1. Why is the United States so unequal and poverty-stricken?
      2. What can or should be done about it?

The facts are stark...

• Income inequality is extreme and increasing: The top 1% of Americans control 23.5% of all the country's income, the highest share controlled by the top 1% since 1928
• The U.S. is exceptionally unequal: The U.S. ranks #3 among all the advanced economies in the amount of income inequality
• The poverty rate is extremely high: The U.S. poverty rate, according to the new National Academy of Science index, is estimated at 15.8 percent. Only one advanced economy, Mexico, has a higher relative poverty rate

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