UC Davis Center for Poverty & Inequality Research | 297 followers on LinkedIn. The Center for Poverty and Inequality Research at UC Davis is one of three federally designated centers whose mission is to facilitate non-partisan academic research on poverty in the U.S., disseminate this research, and train the next generation of poverty scholars. Our research agenda includes four themed areas of focus: labor markets and poverty, children and intergenerational transmission of poverty, the non-traditional safety net, and immigration. The Center was founded in September 2011 with core funding from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S.