{"id":705,"date":"2018-11-29T10:35:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/?p=705"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:45:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T16:45:56","slug":"spotlight-on-jennifer-robsons-asset-poverty-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/2018\/spotlight-on-jennifer-robsons-asset-poverty-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Jennifer Robson\u2019s \u201cAsset Poverty\u201d Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Spotlight on Jennifer Robson\u2019s \u201cAsset Poverty\u201d Work\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Many Canadian adults are earning a decent income. But without savings or assets, they may be living closer to poverty than they may think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/Robson8533-final-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/Robson8533-final-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/Robson8533-final-400x600-160x240.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/Robson8533-final-400x600-240x360.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/174\/Robson8533-final-400x600-360x540.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the message emerging from CSPSC Management Committee Member <strong>Jennifer Robson<\/strong>\u2019s research on a measurement known as asset poverty, discussed in this month&#8217;s issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpavoices\/\">FPA Voices<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen you only focus on income, you are missing a huge piece of what really matters. Asset poverty lets us look at the bigger picture of a household\u2019s resources\u2014their assets, as well as their&nbsp;income\u201d says Robson,Associate Professor in Carleton\u2019s Master of Political Management program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, Robson and her colleague David Russell at Oregon State University released the first national estimates of asset poverty in Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robson shares, \u201cWhat we found is remarkable. We have a large group of people who may not be low-income, but if disaster struck and their income stopped, they wouldn\u2019t be able to keep themselves above the poverty line on assets alone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about Jennifer Robson&#8217;s work in the latest issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpavoices\/story\/jennifer-robson\/\">FPA Voices<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Canadian adults are earning a decent income. But without savings or assets, they may be living closer to poverty than they may think. That\u2019s the message emerging from CSPSC Management Committee Member Jennifer Robson\u2019s research on a measurement known as asset poverty, discussed in this month&#8217;s issue of FPA Voices. \u201cWhen you only focus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3086,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/3086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cspsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}