Fellowship Scope: UK Center for Poverty Research

The focus of the Center, which is submitted under the call for Area Poverty Research Centers, will be on the study of poverty and its correlates as it pertains to theCommonwealth of Kentucky and the South in relation to the Nation as a whole. For the purposes of this proposal the South consists of the following sixteen states as established by the Southern Legislative Conference: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.