Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality

What Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality does

The Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality (GCPI) is a nonprofit policy research center housed within Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to generate policy solutions that improve the lives of people experiencing poverty in the United States. The center produces research across five core issue areas: Good Jobs (employment and job quality), Public Benefits (food assistance and social services), Income & Cash (tax credits and cash assistance), Care (child care and paid leave), and Housing (affordable housing policy). Its outputs include policy briefs, reports, fact sheets, blog posts, op-eds, testimony, data workbooks, webinars, and events.

GCPI distributes all of its research outputs free of charge through its website (www.georgetownpoverty.org) without paywalls or registration requirements, supported by a multi-channel digital presence including email newsletters and accounts on Facebook, X, Bluesky, and LinkedIn. The center operates two notable programs: the People-Centered Digital Benefits Project (launched September 2025), which profiles state-level innovations in benefits delivery in Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, and Colorado, and the Economic Security & Opportunity Initiative, focused on subsidized employment, census data equity, and workforce development. Co-Executive Director Indi Dutta-Gupta has testified before the U.S. House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.

The organization is funded through grants and partnerships with foundations and aligned advocacy organizations, though no funding amounts, funder identities, or budget figures are publicly disclosed. As a university-affiliated nonprofit, GCPI does not have traditional private ownership, equity investors, or a commercial revenue model; its core economics rest on continued grant funding and partner collaboration.

Name

Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality

Legal name

Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality

Website

https://georgetownpoverty.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality (GCPI) is a nonprofit policy research center within Georgetown University Law Center that produces free briefs, reports, and data on poverty, economic security, and inequality for U.S. policymakers, advocates, and researchers.

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Policy Research

NAICS

Human Rights Organizations (813311), Social Advocacy Organizations (8133)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Education Policy, Research & Advocacy Organizations (Nonprofit) (BPAGADAN)

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Civil Liberties & Constitutional Rights Advocacy (BPAGAFAA)

Keywords

• Poverty policy research
• Economic inequality analysis
• Social welfare policy
• Anti-poverty research
• Policy research publications

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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Core offering

The Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality is a research center that generates policy solutions to improve the lives of people experiencing poverty in the United States. It produces policy briefs, reports, fact sheets, blog posts, data workbooks, op-eds, testimony, and webinars organized around five issue areas: Good Jobs, Public Benefits, Income & Cash, Care, and Housing. Its offerings are distributed free of charge through its website to inform evidence-based policymaking at the federal and state level.

Product overview

The Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality (GCPI) is a research center that generates policy solutions to improve the lives of people experiencing poverty in the United States. GCPI's primary offerings are its research publications—comprising briefs, reports, fact sheets, blog posts, data workbooks, and op-eds—that address five key policy issue areas: Good Jobs (employment and job quality), Public Benefits (food assistance and social services), Income & Cash (tax credits and cash assistance), Care (child care and paid leave), and Housing (affordable housing). The organization also runs the People-Centered Digital Benefits Project, which explores state innovations for modernizing benefits delivery systems, and the Economic Security & Opportunity Initiative, which focuses on census data equity and workforce development. Rather than a software product platform, GCPI operates as a policy research organization whose 'products' are its research publications and policy programs.

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Products and services

• Research Publications (Briefs, Reports, Fact Sheets, Blog Posts) GCPI produces a comprehensive portfolio of policy research publications including briefs, reports, fact sheets, blog posts, data workbooks, op-eds, testimony, webinars, and events focused on poverty, inequality, and economic security policy solutions. Distributed free of charge to policymakers, advocates, researchers, and the public.
• Policy Issue Areas Research Programs GCPI organizes its research work around five policy issue areas: Good Jobs (employment and job quality), Public Benefits (food assistance and social services), Income & Cash (tax credits and cash assistance), Care (child care and paid leave), and Housing (affordable housing policy).
• People-Centered Digital Benefits Project A project exploring how states are reimagining the delivery of public benefits systems to be more people-centered, including case studies on Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, and Colorado. The project is grounded in the belief that real progress towards people-centered digital benefits delivery depends as much on how government agencies are structured and led as on the technology they use.
• Economic Security & Opportunity Initiative An initiative within GCPI focused on economic security policies, subsidized employment programs, census data equity, and workforce development.

Quantifiable outcome

• Historic reductions in child poverty demonstrated through 2021 American Rescue Plan Act research

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Broad incumbents

• Brookings Institution: Broad incumbent: large, established think tank whose economic studies and Center for Children and Families address child poverty, tax credits, and safety-net programs similar to GCPI, but with a far wider policy footprint.
• Aspen Institute: Broad incumbent: large policy and ideas organization whose Economic Opportunities Program and Financial Security Program address poverty, work, and family economic security — adjacent remit rather than direct head-to-head competition.

Direct peers

• Urban Institute: Direct peer: a major social and economic policy research institute whose work on poverty, inequality, housing, and benefits delivery closely overlaps GCPI's five issue areas.
• Economic Policy Institute: Direct peer: nonprofit think tank producing research on economic inequality, wages, labor markets, and tax/transfer policy that maps onto GCPI's Good Jobs and Income & Cash issue areas.
• Mathematica Policy Research: Direct peer: social policy research firm producing rigorous evidence on poverty, child care, employment programs, and benefit systems — comparable in method and many of the same policy domains.
• MDRC: Direct peer: social policy research organization focused on evaluating programs for low-income families, including housing, employment, education, and cash assistance — overlapping with several of GCPI's issue areas.
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Direct peer: a Washington, D.C.-based policy organization that researches and advocates on federal and state policies affecting low- and moderate-income households — nearly identical anti-poverty and public-benefits remit to GCPI.
• Poverty & Race Research Action Council: Direct peer: nonprofit that conducts research and policy advocacy at the intersection of poverty and racial justice, mirroring GCPI's anti-racist policy framing.
• Institute for Research on Poverty (University of Wisconsin–Madison): Direct peer: university-based poverty research center producing rigorous academic research on the causes and consequences of poverty and evaluation of anti-poverty programs in the U.S.

Emerging players

• National Women's Law Center: Identified co-author with GCPI on the 2026 refundable tax credits brief; operates as a policy and advocacy organization covering economic security, child care, and tax credits for women and families — strong thematic and operational overlap with GCPI's Care and Income work.

Market position

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Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/GtownLawPovCntr
• Facebookfacebook.com/GeorgetownLawCenterOnPoverty
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/georgetown-center-on-poverty-and-inequality

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