Mark your calendars! Our State of the Union Conference will be held on June 16 at Stanford University. This annual conference provides a comprehensive assessment of where the country stands on key poverty and inequality outcomes. This year’s topic: racial and ethnic inequalities.
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), begun in 1968, is the world’s longest-running multigenerational household panel study. If you want to learn more about the country’s go-to panel study, consider attending the upcoming PSID workshop. Applications are due by April 14, 2017.
University of Louvain professor Philippe Van Parijs compares the idea of a basic income with rival ideas for guarding against poverty and unemployment.
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, a program of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, is partly supported by the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Elfenworks Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation).