Expert on Urban Poverty and Inequality Points to Growing Concerns

Michael Stoll, professor and chair of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, finds that African Americans and Latinos continue to face racial segregation and a greater degree of jobs-housing mismatch. Stoll is a regularly cited expert on urban poverty and inequality, specifically the interplay among labor markets, race and ethnicity, geography, and policy. In a recent appearance on CBS Evening News, Stoll discussed new U.S. Census data and the anticipated poverty rate increase – from 13.2 percent to 15.0 percent, the highest single-year increase since the government began calculating poverty figures in 1959.

Michael Stoll

2010 Census