Listing from the Stop Skipping Class Campaign includes websites for poverty, homelessness, social exclusion and other research.
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Center for Poverty Research (CPR), University of California—Davisopens in new window
CPR focuses on facilitating research using a diverse set of approaches across academic disciplines to answer critical questions about poverty and its solutions. The center engages faculty research affiliates in the departments of economics, sociology, psychology, political science, agricultural economics, human and community development, Chicano studies and the Schools of Education, Engineering and Law. -
Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness (ICPH)opens in new window
ICPH focuses its research on homeless families, as well as those living in extreme poverty, examining the demographics of this growing population, the challenges these families face in becoming self-sufficient and the programs that are most effective in helping them transition out of poverty. Provides reports, briefs and media on several sub-topics: education, housing, health, domestic violence, shelters, employment, family and children. -
Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), University of Wisconsin—Madisonopens in new window
IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. It is nonprofit and nonpartisan. It is based at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. -
Institute on Social Exclusion — Adler School of Professional Psychologyopens in new window
Seeks to analyze the ways in which structural features of society condition human welfare, stimulate public dialogue on the underlying causes of disadvantage and on possible solutions, and engage in practical work that sheds light on and addresses social marginalization. -
MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Healthopens in new window
Multi-disciplinary network of scholars from various fields — including psychology — who have been working together for the last decade to enhance understanding of the mechanisms by which SES factors affect the health of individuals and their communities through development of innovative research methods, creation of new data sets, novel findings and identification of new concepts, hypotheses and directions for research. -
National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)opens in new window
Affiliated with Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, NCCP is the nation's leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health and well-being of America's low-income families and children. NCCP uses research to inform policy and practice with the goal of ensuring positive outcomes for the next generation. We promote family-oriented solutions at the state and national levels. -
National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty (NLCHP)opens in new window
The Law Center is the only national legal group dedicated to ending and preventing homelessness. It works to expand access to affordable housing, meet the immediate and long-term needs of those who are homeless or at risk, and strengthen the social safety-net through policy advocacy, public education, impact litigation, and advocacy training and support.
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National Poverty Center, University of Michiganopens in new window
The National Poverty Center promotes high-quality research on the causes and consequences of poverty, develops and analyzes policies to alleviate poverty and trains the next generation of poverty researchers. -
National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Healthopens in new window
HRC is an interactive community of providers, consumers, policymakers, researchers and public agencies at federal, state, and local levels. Provides state-of-the art knowledge and promising practices to prevent and end homelessness through: (1) training and technical assistance, (2) publications and materials, (3) on-line learning opportunities, and (4) networking and collaboration. -
Pew Charitable Trust — Economic Mobility Projectopens in new window
Pew's Economic Mobility Project focuses public attention on economic mobility — the ability to move up or down the income ladder within a lifetime, or from one generation to the next. By forging a broad and nonpartisan agreement on the facts, figures and trends in mobility, the project is generating an active policy debate about how best to improve economic opportunity in the United States and to ensure that the American Dream is kept alive for generations that follow. -
Rand Corporationopens in new window
RAND research on population and aging analyzes demographic and immigration trends and explores a range of concerns, from family planning to religion to discrimination. RAND also addresses vulnerable populations — such as the elderly and the poor — analyzing retirement and other aspects of financial decision-making, welfare and end-of-life issues. -
Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford Universityopens in new window
The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI), one of three National Poverty Centers, is a nonpartisan research center dedicated to monitoring trends in poverty and inequality, explaining what's driving those trends and developing science-based policy on poverty and inequality. CPI supports research by new and established scholars, trains the next generation of scholars and policy analysts, and disseminates the very best research on poverty and inequality. -
UC Davis Center for Poverty Research, University of California, Davisopens in new window
The Center for Poverty Research at UC Davis is one of three federally designated centers whose mission is to facilitate non-partisan academic research on poverty in the U.S., disseminate this research and train the next generation of poverty scholars. Our research agenda includes four themed areas of focus: labor markets and poverty, children and intergenerational transmission of poverty, the non-traditional safety net, and immigration. -
University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Researchopens in new window
The University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research is a nonpartisan, nonprofit academic research center housed in the Gatton College of Business and Economics. Established in 2002, the center's research informs evidence-based policy on the causes, consequences and correlates of poverty and inequality in the United States. -
Urban Instituteopens in new window
Urban Institute, a non-partisan economic and social policy research group, builds on decades of welfare reform research, evaluates public safety nets and proposes new initiatives to bolster work supports and help families gain a stable financial footing.