National Poverty Center (University of Michigan)

National Center for Children in Poverty (Columbia University)

Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality (Stanford University)

Center for Poverty and Inequality Research (UC Davis)

West Coast Poverty Center (University of Washington)

Center for Poverty Research (University of Kentucky)

Institute for Research on Poverty (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America (by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer & Timothy J. Nelson)

• The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (by William Julius Wilson)

• Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (by Ruth Wilson Gilmore)

• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (by Matthew Desmond)

• The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia (by Michael Clay Carey)

• Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties (by Sarah Halpern-Meekin)

• Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (by Joe Soss, Richard C. Fording & Sanford F. Schram)

• The Government-Citizen Disconnect (by Suzanne Mettler)

• Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America (by Peter Edelman)

• The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants (by Adam Goodman)

• The Working Poor: Invisible in America (by David K. Shipler)

• Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System (by Douglas S. Massey)

• Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (by Sendhil Mullainathan & Eldar Shafir)

• The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World (by Michael Marmot)