In the News
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Pandemic disproportionately affects Black households
UKCPR Research Affiliate Bradley Hardy has co-authored a new report titled Racial Economic Inequality Amid the Covid-19 Crisis. The report is published through the Hamilton Project, a non-partisan project by the Brookings Institution that focuses on fostering long-term prosperity and effective government. Hardy’s paper, co-authored by Trevon Logan of The Ohio State University, looks at how the pandemic has worsened racial inequality for Black households in the United States. Read more.
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Poverty scholars condemn opinion piece of NYU professor
A group of leading poverty scholars and directors of the National Collaborative of Poverty Centers has issued a strong statement of criticism of a recent opinion piece in the journal Society, authored by Lawrence Mead, a political scientist at New York University. The July 2020 article -- drawn from his book Burdens of Freedom: Cultural Difference and American Power -- has received widespread condemation from the academic community. (Read entire article).
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Podcast from AEPP discusses food insecurity and Medicaid
A new podcast from Applied Economc Perspectives and Policy features a discussion between AEPP Managing Editor and UKCPR Research Affiliate Craig Gundersen, Winthrop University Assistant Professor of Economics Nick Moellman, and Oklahoma State Professor of Agribusiness Bailey Norwood about the impact of Medicaid expansion on food security and how online surveys contribute to the understanding of food insecurity in the U.S. The discussion elaborates on two recent articles from AEPP. Moellman discusses his article Healthcare and hunger: Effects of the ACA, Medicaid expansions and food insecurity in America, while Bailey discusses his research on Can Internet surveys mimic food insecurity rates published by the U.S. Government? Listen to the podcast.
Spotlight
Hope Harvey is an assistant professor in the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Kentucky. Hope is new to the faculty of the Martin School. She received her doctorate in social policy and sociology from Harvard University in 2018 and was a post doctoral researcher at the Cornell Department of Policy Analysis and Management before joining the UK faculty.
Hope’s research focuses on family arrangements, especially for those who live in doubled-up households, and the interplay of poverty and inequality where these arrangements occur. Her recent research published in Social Problems finds that mothers who live as a guest in another’s house deal with issues related to identity and being a good parent. For this research, she interviewed 52 mothers who indicated that their living arrangements were incompatible with their notions of adulthood and family life.
In a 2020 Demography publication, Hope’s research estimated the health and educational attainment effects on children who lived in doubled-up households, including those who live with grandparents, older siblings, and extended families. Her work found that children who lived with extended families had worse outcomes than those who lived with family members.
Hope’s work has been supported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy, and the MacArthur Foundation, among others. Her work appears in journals such as Social Forces, City & Community, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
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.