In the News
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UKCPR launches new request for proposals for research using the PSID
The University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research, in conjunction with the United States Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service and the Food and Nutrition Service, announces a new request for proposals for food insecurity research using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Research funded competitively under this announcement will focus on economic analyses of longitudinal household food insecurity and its links to food assistance program participation, work, income, consumption, and wealth. Read more.
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James Ziliak discusses senior hunger on WEKU's Eastern Standard
UKCPR Director and Gatton Endowed Chair of Microeconomics James Ziliak was featured Sept. 5 on WEKU’s Eastern Standard weekly radio news program about his annual report on senior hunger co-authored with Craig Gundersen, professor of agricultural economics at the University of Illinois. The May 2019 release of The State of Senior Hunger is published annually by Feeding America. Listen to Ziliak’s Eastern Standard interview with host Tom Martin.
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Allard and UW colleagues receive Equitable Growth grant
UKCPR affiliate Scott Allard and colleagues at the University of Washington are recipients of a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth (WCEG) to study local minimum wage laws and their impact on income inequality. Read more.
Spotlight
Colleen Heflin is a professor of public administration and international affairs in the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She is also a senior research associate at the Syracuse Center for Policy Research. Colleen’s work incorporates methods from a range of social sciences to analyze social stratification, with a research interest in welfare policy and its impact on the well-being of the poor. Her research projects have looked at how shocks to families, such as unemployment and becoming disabled, affect material hardship. She has also analyzed changes in utilization of public assistance since the Great Recession and how material hardship has affected marriage trends. Colleen has published her work extensively in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Family Issues, Children and Youth Services Review, and Social Problems. In 2019, she has published five papers -- with three more accepted for publication -- on topics such as child nutrition and health, the impact of SNAP benefits on childhood asthma, and the link between disability and food insecurity. Visit Colleen’s faculty page.
Mission Statement
The University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit academic research center established in 2002. Our research informs evidence-based policy on the causes, consequences, and correlates of poverty, inequality, and food insecurity in the United States.
UKCPR is a member of the Collaborative of Poverty Centers sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with underwriting from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The other member poverty centers are located at Columbia University, Howard University, Stanford University, University of California-Davis, University of California-Irvine, University of Michigan, and University of Washington. The goal of the CPC is to improve the effectiveness of public policies to reduce poverty and inequality and their impacts on the well-being of the American people.