Asset building
Sample topics: asset building policy, marginal tax rates, household banking practices, payday lending
Alexes Harris, Marieka Klawitter, Jennifer Romich
Crime and Criminal Justice
Sample topics: juvenile justice, prisoner re-entry, racial and ethnic patterns of incarceration
Bob Crutchfield, Alexes Harris, Becky Pettit
Education
Sample topics: affirmative action, immigrant access, Latinos and higher education
Frances Contreras, Roberto Gonzales, Charles Hirschman, Mark Long
Family
Sample topics: effects of low-income on families, poverty and childhood development, child care, child support policies, domestic violence and economic insecurity
Taryn Lindhorst, Marcia Meyers, Robert Plotnick, Jennifer Romich
Health care
Sample topics: public health care funding , health disparities, health care access issues
Gunnar Almgren
Human Geography
Sample topics: public housing, tolling and the poor, rural-urban poverty dynamics
Rachel Kleit, Victoria Lawson
Tax policy
Sample topics: EITC, marginal tax rates and low-income work
Crystal Hall, Jennifer Romich, Robert Plotnick
Welfare / welfare reform
Sample topics: TANF sanctions, effects on child rearing, effects on childhood education
Marieka Klawitter, Marcia Meyers, Robert Plotnick
Workforce
Sample topics: demographics, social mobility, immigration
Mark Ellis, Robert Plotnick
Sample topics: wages and benefits, unions, work-life balance issues, discrimination
James Gregory, Marieka Klawitter, Becky Pettit, Jake Rosenfeld