Poverty Centers

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services sponsors a National Poverty Research Center and three area poverty research centers. The National Poverty Center is located in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The three area poverty research centers are IRP, whose particular focus as an area center is the Upper Midwest; the University of Kentucky Poverty Research Center, which is concerned with problems of poverty in the southern United States; and the West Coast Poverty Research Center, which will be a hub for research, education, and poverty analysis for west coast states.