CSDE Committees: Executive Committee Member
CSDE Research Areas:
- Wellbeing of Families and Households
In the News:
- Adding Demographic Information to Administrative Data (2/8/2021)
- Allard, Romich, and Colleagues Release New Study on Minimum Wage and Entrepreneurs from Marginalized Communities (1/21/2022)
- CSDE Affiliates Co-Author Two Minimum Wage Ordinance Studies (2/15/2019)
- CSDE Affiliates Examine Equity Issues Associated with Tolled Roads (4/15/2018)
- CSDE’s Spring Quarter Seminar Series Finalized! (3/23/2021)
- Jennifer Romich and Mark Long Reflect on Lessons from Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage (7/30/2019)
- Jennifer Romich Quoted in Bloomberg Article on Walmart’s New Absenteeism Policy (2/4/2019)
- Long, Pelletier, and Romich Publish New Research on Constructing Geographic Data from Administrative Sources (7/22/2022)
- Population Research Discovery Seminar: Robert Plotnick, Scott Allard, Marieka Klawitter, and Jennifer Romich (5/1/2017)
- Romich and Team will Evaluate Pay Structure in Human Services with City of Seattle and King County (8/5/2022)
- Understanding Trends in Mothers’ Work Schedules in the U.S., 1989-2017 (4/19/2021)
- West Coast Poverty Center Webinar on Poverty and Hardship in WA State (1/3/2021)
- Romich and Freitag Lead Efforts to Establish New Data Repository at UW (5/14/2023)
Jennie Romich is a Professor of Social Welfare at the UW School of Social Work and faculty director of the West Coast Poverty Center. She studies resources and economic well-being in families with an emphasis on low-income workers, household budgets, and families’ interactions with public policy. Her recent projects include research into effective marginal tax rates created by means-tested benefit schedules and the tax system; an investigation of income of families involved with the child welfare system; and mixed-method evaluations of the Seattle Paid Safe and Sick Time Ordinance and $15 minimum wage. She co-leads the national effort on “Reducing Extreme Economic Inequality” for the American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare’s Grand Challenges Initiative and co-chairs a national research network on “Poverty, Employment, and Self-Sufficiency” through the Collaborative of U.S. Poverty Centers.