You’re invited! On February 2nd, the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality will host the State of the Union Conference on Poverty and Inequality.

The feature presentation: The Poverty and Inequality Report 2015.
Authored by the country’s top experts, the report will compare the 50 states on key data across eight domains: labor markets, poverty, income inequality, mobility, health, education, segregation, and the safety net.
For conference details and to RSVP, click here.
 

Roster of Experts

Labor Markets

• Michael Hout, Professor of Sociology, New York University
• Erin Cumberworth, National Poverty Fellow, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University

Poverty

• Charles Varner, Associate Director, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University
• Marybeth Mattingly, Research Consultant, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University

Mobility

• Raj Chetty, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Nathaniel Hendren, Assistant Professor of Economics, Harvard University
• Patrick Kline, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley
• Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics, UC-Berkeley

Safety Net

• Karen Jusko, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

Income Inequality

• Timothy Smeeding, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, University of Wisconsin
• Jonathan Fisher, Research Scholar, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University
• Jeffrey Thompson, Economist, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
   

Health

• Sarah Burgard, Associate Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology, University of Michigan
• Molly King, National Poverty Fellow, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University

Education

• Sean Reardon, Professor of Education, Stanford University

Segregation

• Daniel T. Lichter, Ferris Family Professor in the Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Cornell Population Center, Cornell University
• Domenico Parisi, Professor of Demography and Applied Statistics, Director of the National Strategic Planning and Analysis Research Center (nSPARC), and Director of the SLDS State Data Clearinghouse, Mississippi State University
• Michael C. Taquino, Deputy Director and Associate Research Professor, National Strategic Planning and Analysis Research Center (nSPARC), Mississippi State University