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Mission Statement

The University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research (UKCPR) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit academic research center established in 2002. Our research informs evidence-based policy on the causes, consequences, and correlates of poverty, inequality, and food insecurity in the United States.

UKCPR is a member of the Collaborative of Poverty Centers sponsored by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with underwriting from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The other member poverty centers are located at Columbia UniversityHoward University, Stanford University, University of California-Davis, University of California-Irvine, University of Michigan, and University of Washington. The goal of the CPC is to improve the effectiveness of public policies to reduce poverty and inequality and their impacts on the well-being of the American people.

Spotlight

krause.jpgEleanor Krause is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky.

Eleanor joined the department in the fall of 2024 after completing her Ph.D. in Public Policy at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. Her research applies the insights and methods from public, labor, and urban economics to study questions related to the environment, economic opportunity, and geographic inequality. Much of her current work explores the distributional and labor market consequences of the clean energy transition, including applications to the Appalachian region. She is a current recipient of an Early Career Award from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

Prior to her doctoral studies, Eleanor worked in the Economic Studies Program at The Brookings Institution and the U.S. Climate Initiative at the World Resources Institute.

Read more about Eleanor on her faculty page.