The CPI and Third Sector Capital Partners have joined with three state and local governments in California and Washington to use administrative data to evaluate social programs that address homelessness, unemployment, and family disadvantage.
Congratulations to CPI research group leader Matt Desmond for winning the Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. His book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, follows eight families in Milwaukee as they struggle to keep a roof over their heads.
Here’s a call for papers that’s sure to appeal to CPI affiliates: The Russell Sage Foundation is soliciting papers that explore the role that administrative data can play in understanding social, political, and economic inequalities. Submissions are due by June 15, 2017.
CPI research group leader Michael Hout explores why college graduation rates in the United States are so low in this video from our online course on poverty and inequality.
New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Leonhardt is in town! Join him for a discussion of the big data revolution in journalism and the secrets of story-telling with data.
New York Times writers Jodi Kantor and Catrin Einhorn share their experiences of reporting the unusual story of how thousands of Canadian citizens essentially adopted Syrian refugees.
Stanford professor Sharad Goel describes recent applications of algorithms in criminal justice and considers the technical, ethical, and legal implications of an algorithm-rich justice system.
Drawing on his experience as a public defender, Yale University professor James Forman Jr. considers how the U.S. criminal justice system became so punitive.
Why does U.S. literature spotlight racist villains and heroes during periods of institutional change? A lecture by University of Alabama professor Jolene Hubbs explores race and the elite imagination.
Wednesday May 17, Black Community Services Center, 12pm
The country’s experts deliver a comprehensive assessment of where the country stands on key poverty and inequality outcomes. This year’s focus: racial and ethnic inequality.
Friday June 16, Koret-Taube Conference Center, 10am
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).