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Stanford University - Center for the Study of Poverty & Inequality

A web-based center for trend and other breaking research data on poverty could offer journalists, politicians, and policy makers at all levels immediate access to a wealth of information, making it possible to monitor poverty and inequality just as easily as monitoring economic output. Professor David Grusky, Director of the Stanford Center, believes this access is crucial. Without it, every American loses, not just those afflicted. In addition to seeing the existence of poverty and inequality as moral problems, Grusky argues that they create huge externalities through raising crime rates and increasing the national health care bill, among other things. In other words, they affect the bottom line and should be treated accordingly. Grusky hopes that his work can help prepare the next generation to face the looming spectre of poverty and remove this social blight. [article] [inequality.com] .

The Stanford University Center for the Study of Poverty & Inequality
--Opening Celebration September 6th!--

Visiting Scholars: The Elfenworks Foundation Visiting Scholars Program brings leading scholars and practitioners to Stanford University to carry out research, teach classes and inform public debate on poverty and inequality policy. Each year, the Elfenworks Foundation funds two visitors: a distinguished scholar who spends one or two semesters in residence delivering several public lectures and writing a book for the Controversies in Inequality book series, and a visiting lecturer who contributes to graduate and undergraduate programs in poverty and inequality.

Website: We continue to assist the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality with their website, inequality.com. The launch of the site was celebrated at the Center's official opening celebration, A Concert for Hope on Thursday, September 6, 2007. The development work has begun on Release 2.0 of the website, and Stanford Center faculty, staff and graduate students are busily working to maintain the database which powers the site. Members of the press please contact our for information regarding the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, or poverty awareness events.

Poverty, Inequality and Policy Magazine: As part of its continuing involvement with the Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality, our foundation will help the Center develop its Poverty, Inequality and Policy magazine. The Elfenworks Visiting Scholars will be among many distinguished contributors to this magazine, which will provide a forum for top scholars to disseminate their research and to provide the facts and cogent analysis that will inform crucial policy decisions on poverty and inequality.