2008-2011 Theme Project
Persistent Poverty & Upward Mobility Theme Project in the News 2007-2013

 ISS Faculty Fellows find gender gap in STEM majors linked to high school job plans (May 2013)

MLK speaker: Leadership and education save lives (February 2013)

Put children above politics, urges Michelle Rhee '92 (February 2013)

Students spend 10 days in Ghana hearing women's concerns, hopes (February 2013)

Genetics-Poverty Link Questioned (February 2013)

Flap Over Study Linking Poverty to Biology Exposes Gulfs Among Disciplines (February 2013)

Will there be a global food crisis in 2013 (February 2013)

Orphans benefit from Barrett Keene's walk across America (December 2012)

Free online nutrition course attracts more than 3,800 global participants (December 2012)

Dobyns, promoting peace in the developing world through entrepreneurship,named Rhodes scholar (November 2012)

Study: Health insurance should be included in measures of poverty and income (November 2012)

Gates Foundation funds research to improve health in developing countries (November 2012)

Alumni leaders advise students at Human Ecology forum (November 2012)

ISS faculty fellow, Stephen Morgan, finds comparing U.S. education to others can backfire (October 2012)

Business students build leadership skills on trip to Haiti (October 2012)

Economists discuss policies & recession on eve of election (October 2012)

Hallock demystifies pay in book on compensation (October 2012)

Poor kids twice as likely to suffer from arthritis & hypertension in adulthood (October 2012)

Researchers test how school gardens foster healthful habits (October 2012)

Notaro edits volume on disparities in health & health care based on race, class and gender (October 2012)

Lecture explores inequalities in American democracy (October 2012)

Iscol speakers say cell phones & texting saves lives abroad (October 2012)

Rhodes Professor to students: become true 'global citizens' (October 2012)

Glover urges students to be 'architects' of their own 'rescue' (October 2012)

New program takes on America's crumbling infrastructure (October 2012)

ISS affiliate Kaushik Basu appointed World Bank's chief economist (September 2012)

ISS Poverty affilates' study show how negative stereotypes about the poor hurt their health (July 2012)

ISS Poverty affiliate makes data more accessible for rural New York schools (June 2012)

Experts, including ISS Poverty faculty fellow, discuss risks of natural gas drilling with journalists and Capitol Hill (June 2012)

ISS Poverty team leader and other CALS staff honored for achievement (November 2011)

Insurance program, developed by ISS Poverty affiliates, makes its first payouts to African livestock farmers (November 2011)

ISS Poverty fellow studies costs of the boom-bust cycle in natural gas extraction (September 2011)

ISS Poverty team leader and affiliate edit series series on how to cut poverty but preserve wildlife (August 2011)

Poverty team leader and affiliate argue food price spikes and volatility are not the same issue (July 2011)

Poverty Affiliate researchers study how to support the transition to adulthood in Latin America (February 2011)

Dan Lichter, poverty team member, ponders intermarriage trends in online chat (May 2010)

Project looks to lift Latin American youths out of poverty, project spearheaded by team affiliates (April 2010)

Researchers send texts to help pregnant women manage weight, team member and colleagues begin study (February 2010)

Team Leader Barrett calls for global data on world's underfed (February 2010)

Research Team Tackles Poverty (February 2010)

Launch of IBLI (Index-based livestock insurance) (January 2010)

Half of U.S. Children -- and most black children -- will use food stamps, Cornell study reports (November 2009)

Poverty affiliate Basu appointed a chief economic adviser to India (November 2009)

Elinor Ostrom: Collective Action and the Commons: What Have We Learned? (September 2009)

Poverty researchers kick off three-year collaboration (May 2009(

Christine Olson: Hunger and Food Insecurity in the US (April 2009)

$3.2 million NSF grant trains grad students to tackle food systems and poverty problems (August 2009)

Seminar on inequality focuses on developing world (November 2008)

Nutrition Problems to Worsen, Team Member says ( August 2008)

Poverty Affiliate Teaches Social Sciences Class in Inequality for Alumni (June 2008)

Poverty Team Member Addresses African Issues at U.N. Meeting (May 2008)

Team Leader Named Associate Director of Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future (May 2008)

Persistent Poverty Is Focus of Latest ISS Theme Project (April 2008)

Team Leader Comments on Cuts to US Food Aid to Foreign Countries (March 2008)

Team Affiliate Receives One of India's Highest Honors (February 2008)

Economist Chris Barrett Asserts That Markets Can Pull Billions of People Permanently Out of Poverty (November 2007)