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U.S. Census Bureau Data and statistics: Income, Earnings,
Poverty, Health Insurance Coverage, State Median Family Income
The Census Bureau's Poverty Website Publications,
definitions, Poverty data.
Centre on Urban Poverty and Social Change, Case
Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland. The Center addresses the
problems of persistent and concentrated urban poverty and is dedicated
to understanding how social and economic changes affect low-income communities
and their residents. Based in Cleveland, the Center views the city as
both a tool for building communities and producing change locally, and
as a representative urban center from which nationally-relevant research
and policy implications can be drawn.
Center
for Social Services Research /Child Welfare Research Centre,
(CWRC) at School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.
CWRC
provide groundbreaking research on a variety of child welfare issues
including adoption, case management, foster care, and welfare reform.
Center for the
Study of Urban Poverty (CSUP), University of California at
Los Angeles. CSUP focuses on research into the causes and consequences
of urban poverty and the effectiveness of policies aimed at alleviating
poverty. The research agenda focuses on three broad issues: Poverty
in Los Angeles; The Working Poor and Transition to work/disadvantaged
low skill workers.
ICFP – The Institute for Child and Family Policy, Columbia
University. The Institute seeks to stimulate and coordinate the cross-disciplinary
work required to make progress on child and family policy issues. The
Institute is viewed as providing the child and family policy component
of Columbia's new Public Policy Consortium and becoming a child and
family policy "think tank" for the University at large.
Institute for research on poverty, (IRP) University of Wisconsin,
Madison. IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes
and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States.
IRP has a particular interest in poverty and family welfare in the Midwest.
Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty, at the
Weingart Center, Los Angeles, California. The Institute is a nonprofit,
non-partisan, research and policy organization. The Institute delivers
analysis, data and solutions to spark new collaborations and foster
new initiatives, policies and programs to better understand and address
homelessness and poverty.
Institute on Race
and Poverty (IRP), University of Minnesota. IRP investigates
the ways that policies and practices disproportionately affect people
of color and the disadvantaged.
Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program,
at the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy, John
F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. The Program seeks
to analyze the effects of increasing urban poverty and joblessness plaguing
the inner cities and to ensure that scholarly research plays a critical
role in the creation and implementation of national public policy concerning
the poor.
Joint Center for Poverty Research (JCPR), at The Northwestern
University / University of Chicago. JCPR supports academic research
that examines what it means to be poor and live in America. JCPR concentrates
on the causes and consequences of poverty in America and the effectiveness
of policies aimed at reducing poverty.
Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement, U.S. Department
of Health & Human Services, Washington, D.C.
Poverty, Inequality and development research at Cornell University
(PID), at Cornell University is a world leader in research
on poverty, inequality and development.
Program on Poverty and Social Welfare Policy (PSWP), University
of Michigan.
The Program sponsors or encourages
activities like: Multidisciplinary research on effects of poverty and
welfare on families and communities; Evaluation of welfare reform or
other anti-poverty initiatives at the federal, state, or local level;
Field studies of welfare and social service agency practices.
Welfare Policy Research Project (WPRP), University of California.
Et stort koordineringsprosjekt der alle vitenskapelige evalueringer
av Californias sosialhjelpsordninger samles i en felles database (Califorina
Welfare Research Database). (Klikk videre på "welfare database"
for stikkord-søk etter spesifikke evalueringsstudier.) California
Welfare Research Database: WPRP has developed a database to track and
profile the welfare-related evaluations and studies being conducted
in California.
Welfare Reform Research (WRR) Database at the Institute
for Research Poverty (IRP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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