News: poverty

Childhood concerns about inequality have put this MSW student on an unstoppable career path in social enterprise administration and social…

Children of China’s many internal migrants have a hard time adjusting. Two alumni and a current student have co-written a…

In a new National Academies report, Interim Dean Irwin Garfinkel and colleagues identify the most effective policy means for reducing…

Highlights from Dr. Qin Gao’s interview on poverty reduction and social welfare in China ranked among the Carnegie Council for…

The United States may be the world’s richest nation, but according to the U.S. Census, one in three children (a…

Columbia University’s School of Social Work has announced that Dr. Jared Bernstein, a former senior White House economic adviser who…

At a time when Columbia University is confronting its historic relationship with slavery, and as we are also nearing the…

The Columbia Population Research Center, in partnership with the Robin Hood Foundation, has released its Fall 2014 Poverty Tracker, the second in a series of reports on the state of poverty in New York City.

Two years after Hurricane Sandy, what socio-economic lessons have we learned from the deadly storm? Researchers from the Columbia Population Research Center, housed within our School, comb through the data from the Robin Hood Foundation-funded Poverty Tracker for answers.

Three of our professors have embarked on an ambitious study of an elusive widespread social condition: urban poverty. Columbia Magazine has the story.