Foreign Policy In Focus | International Affairs, Peace, Justice, and Environment Middle East Forum Europe - Robert Schuman Foundation - The french think tank on Europe The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality - SCSPI The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI), one of three National Poverty Centers, is a nonpartisan research center dedicated to monitoring trends in poverty and inequality, explaining what's driving those trends, and developing science-based policy on poverty and inequality. CPI supports research by new and established scholars, trains the next generation of scholars and policy analysts, and disseminates the very best research on poverty and inequality. The current economic climate makes CPI activities and research especially important. The following are a few critical poverty and inequality facts: Poverty:The U.S. poverty rate, according to the new Supplemental Poverty Measure, is estimated at 16.0 percent. The official poverty rate, recently released by the U.S. CPI monitors a wide gamut of other poverty and inequality indicators. The activities of CPI are currently supported with core funding from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the U.S.
Center for Immigration Studies Adam Smith Institute - the free-market think tank Center for American Progress National Policy Institute Blog Wednesday's Supreme Court decision in McCutcheon v. FEC has brought a lot of speculation about the likely growth in the role of big donors now that overall limits on donations to parties, PACs and candidates have been demolished. But what effect will the ruling have on the share of campaign contributions coming from men versus women? In the 2012 election cycle, 644 individual donors hit the aggregate limit of $117,000. Women are a majority of the population, but a minority of campaign donors and a smaller minority of maxed-out campaign donors. And if married couples are excluded, the percentage of women drops even lower. That's right in line with the gender division among donors to outside money groups like super PACs, which can accept checks of any size and were not directly affected by McCutcheon. The evidence strongly suggests that men make up a bigger share of the donor pool when contribution limits are higher -- or nonexistent.
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