News: Child poverty
Reimagining the Future After a Crisis: Falling Short, Winning Big, Challenging Norms, and Enacting Change
In this post for our special series on social work research during and after COVID, the Center on Poverty and…
Tracking Poverty, Making Policy
Sophie Collyer, a dual-degree alumna of CSSW and SIPA, works at the intersection of policy analysis and social justice. This…
Enact Fundamental Change to Address Poverty
The COVID pandemic exacerbated poverty in the United States, and the Biden administration should take significant steps to support those…
Conferences, Collaboration, and Learning to Cook: A Visiting Scholar’s Year at the China Center
As a doctoral student at the School of Finance at Renmin University of China and a member of the China…
Poverty Center & Robin Hood Expand Scope of Their New York City Survey
An expanded poverty tracking survey will now look at early childhood poverty and the experiences of Asian-American New Yorkers. What’s…
Nine PhD Students Enter the Academic Job Market
Since its inception in 1950, the doctoral program at Columbia School of Social Work has produced many of the world’s…
New Study: Through Welfare, States Are Widening Black-White Child Poverty Gap
A poverty studies scholar uncovers racial bias in choices states make in the use and distribution of federal assistance benefits….
Creating Sustainable Mobility from Poverty
The fifth annual New Frontiers in Poverty Research conference featured a keynote by Wes Moore, innovative policy proposals such as…
Interim Dean Garfinkel Contributes to Study on Slashing Child Poverty
In a new National Academies report, Interim Dean Irwin Garfinkel and colleagues identify the most effective policy means for reducing…
Irwin Garfinkel Appointed to National Panel of Experts to Build Agenda to Cut Child Poverty in Half in 10 Years
The United States may be the world’s richest nation, but according to the U.S. Census, one in three children (a…
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