Library Guide for Diversity, Inclusion and Awareness: Socio-Economics

Despite the bleak portrait that MIT economist Peter Temin paints, he doesn’t believe that the U.S. necessarily has to be like this. He offers five proposals that he says might help the country return to more equal footing.

A taxonomy of how we talk about class and wealth in the United States today.

Researchers find that much of the damage done by being poor comes from feeling poor.

Instead of buying expensive things, people now use busyness to show their high status. New research finds that many celebrities use social media to boast about their lack of time, not their wealth.

How the pursuit of status can lead to aggressive and self-defeating behavior.

Center podcasts are a great way to keep up with today’s poverty research and public policy. We also produce exclusive content, such as our Poverty in Focus series, as well as expert discussions on research.

The Poverty Research & Policy podcast is produced by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) and features interviews with researchers about poverty, inequality, and policy in the United States.

In 2016, the New Policy Institute estimated that 13.5 million people in the UK – that’s a fifth of the population – were living in poverty. For this shockingly large group, life doesn’t get much harder and the impact goes far beyond their financial position. Their general health takes a hit too, cutting short their life expectancy. And with a slew of recent scientific studies examining the issue, we ask: what does poverty do to our health and wellbeing? And what physiological processes might be at work?