SOC W 501 Poverty & Inequality

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank created in 1986 to include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic policy discussions. EPI believes every working person deserves a good job with fair pay, affordable health care, and retirement security. To achieve this goal, EPI conducts research and analysis on the economic status of working America. EPI proposes public policies that protect and improve the economic conditions of low- and middle-income workers and assesses policies with respect to how they affect those workers.

This group studies methods of assisting the world's poor, by creating high quality evidence and turning that into policies and programs. They have projects in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia.

This research center at the University of Wisconsin looks at the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the US, focusing on the midwest.

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center (HQ - MIT) working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Anchored by a network of 161 affiliated professors at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty.

Built on Angus Maddison's original dataset, this site includes GDP per capita data from 1AD to present. This site is now run by University of Groningen, Netherlands.

This Columbia University group works on analysis of underlying causes of poverty that will drive advocacy and policy change.

RESULTS runs a US anti-poverty and a Global anti-poverty campaign. They train volunteers to do advocacy work.

The Williams Institute (UCLA Law) conducts independent research on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy.

Published by the Institute for Community Inclusion at UMass Boston. 2016

For birth and death statistics

The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a longitudinal panel study that surveys a representative sample of approximately 20,000 people in America, supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA U01AG009740) and the Social Security Administration