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CSDE Research Areas:

• Demographic Measurements and Methods
• Environments and Populations
• Wellbeing of Families and Households

In the News:

• 15 CSDE Affiliates Part of 9 Teams Receiving UW Population Health Initiative Awards (6/26/2020)
• Author Meets Critics – Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty (11/17/2019)
• Congratulations to the Best Poster Award Winners! (12/17/2020)
• CSDE Affiliates Berridge, Allard, Freitag, and Co-Authors Publish Report on COVID-19 and Older Adults (10/26/2020)
• CSDE Affiliates Co-Author Two Minimum Wage Ordinance Studies (2/15/2019)
• Heather D. Hill and Scott W. Allard Selected as Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars (1/24/2020)
• Population Research Discovery Seminar: Robert Plotnick, Scott Allard, Marieka Klawitter, and Jennifer Romich (5/1/2017)
• Robert Plotnick Retires, Leaving Storied Legacy Behind (6/5/2017)
• Scott Allard Addresses Issues of Suburban Poverty in Recent Op-Ed (8/15/2017)
• Scott Allard Addresses Myth About Poverty in Cities and Suburbs (11/7/2017)
• Scott Allard Discusses How Minority Migrants Still Struggle in Suburbs (10/10/2016)
• Scott Allard Discusses Increasing Income Inequality in the U.S. (1/16/2018)
• Scott Allard Discusses New Census Data on Poverty Rates (9/26/2017)
• Scott Allard Explains Suburban Poverty with Places in Need (7/18/2017)
• Scott Allard Explains the Rise of Suburban Poverty (6/13/2017)
• Scott Allard Explores the Link Between Food Access and Security (9/12/2017)
• Scott Allard’s Findings on Disparities in Human Services Funding Cited in Washington Post Article (2/12/2018)
• Allard and Pelletier Publish New Spatial Analysis of Poverty and Community-based Non-Profits (10/8/2021)
• Congratulations to RSF Visiting Scholar Scott Allard! (1/14/2022)
• Allard, Romich, and Colleagues Release New Study on Minimum Wage and Entrepreneurs from Marginalized Communities (1/21/2022)
• Freitag, Berridge, and Allard Publish on Meeting Elderly Food Needs During COVID (11/19/2022)
• Richard V. Reeves Presents “Of Boys and Men: Why is the Modern Male Struggling?” (1/13/2023)
• Allard and EPIC Team Receive Support on Ballot Rejection Project from Washington State (5/14/2023)
• Allard to Present Research on the Washington State Ballots Project (10/4/23) (9/29/2023)
• The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) Celebrates 25 years! (5/16/23-5/17/23) (9/29/2023)

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Prior to arriving at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington, Seattle, Scott Allard was an affiliate of the Population Research Center at the University of Chicago. His expertise in social policy bridges a wide range of topic areas, with particular emphasis on issues of poverty, place, and safety net policy in America. Scott received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1999 with concentration in American politics, public policy, the American welfare state, and quantitative methods. Throughout his career, he has been embedded in multi-disciplinary research centers, which has allowed him to develop a broad conceptual and methodological toolkit to interrogate relationships between place, poverty, and safety net assistance in the American context.