Webinar: RSF-Affiliated Scholars on Improving Poverty Measurements in the U.S.
On Wednesday, July 26, 2023, four RSF-affiliated scholars will discuss a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS), which offers recommendations for updating how poverty is measured in the United States in a webinar hosted by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University Wisconsin-Madison. Presenters include James Ziliak (University of Kentucky), a former RSF visiting scholar and RSF research grant recipient, Barbara Wolfe (University of Wisconsin-Madison), an RSF author, RSF: The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences issue contributor, and RSF research grant recipient, Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University), a former RSF visiting scholar, RSF author, RSF journal issue contributor, and RSF research grant recipient, and Ingrid Gould Ellen (New York University), an RSF-Gates Foundation Pipeline Grants Competition mentor, RSF author, and RSF research grant recipient.
Along with Indivar Dutta-Gupta (The Center for Law and Social Policy), Ziliak, Wolfe, Waldfogel, and Ellen will discuss their assessment of the current Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) and what a change from the SPM to a new Principal Poverty Measure would accomplish.
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Read more about the panel discussion.
Read more about the RSF grants that influenced the NAS panel: “Accounting for the Impact of the Affordable Care Act on Poverty;” “Building a Health- Inclusive Poverty Measure to Supplement the Supplemental Poverty Measure;” and “The Hidden (and Open) Poverty of the COVID-19 Crisis – How Big are the Holes in the Safety Net?”