CPSP joins poverty center directors in denouncing the racism in Lawrence Mead’s “Poverty and Culture”

Preview: A recent commentary, “Poverty and Culture,” written by Professor Lawrence Mead and published in Society, a journal edited by Jonathan Imber, has caused great concern and anger within the poverty research community. Directors of several poverty centers across the country signed on to a joint statement asserting that Professor’s Meads opinion is harmful to communities of color and does not reflect the current knowledge of the field. The article has since been retracted. A former group of poverty center directors called for renewed research on issues of poverty and race from the current generation of poverty researchers.