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The CPI Poverty and Technology Lab
The CPI is pleased to announce the founding of a Poverty and Technology Lab dedicated to creating novel, lasting, and low-cost solutions to poverty and inequality in the United States. The lab will imagine, build, and test technology-driven innovations that increase opportunity and reduce poverty. The launch conference will be announced soon!
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2017 State of the Union Conference
The CPI’s annual State of the Union Conference is moving to D.C.! This year's topic: Race, Poverty, and Inequality. The conference will take place in March and will be cosponsored with the Urban Institute. We’ll be releasing more details in the coming weeks.
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The Future of the Safety Net
The top poverty scholars and policymakers in the country are gathering in late September for a conference in Washington, D.C. examining how the lessons from two decades of welfare reform can help build a safety net for the 21st century. Can’t make the conference? We’ll be covering the highlights in an upcoming issue of Pathways Magazine.
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New Data Infrastructure for California
The CPI is building the California Longitudinal Administrative Database (“CLAD”), a new infrastructure that will enable researchers and policymakers to monitor poverty and labor market outcomes and to evaluate policy and policy experiments using administrative data. We will soon be issuing a call for new research using the CLAD … stay tuned!
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The U.S. is chock-full of different types of safety nets ... each state has fashioned its very own. In a new paper, CPI New Scholar Sarah K. Bruch, Marcia K. Meyers, and CPI affiliate Janet C. Gornick examine just how much variation there is and whether it’s on the rise.
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