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title: "Research Programs"
url: https://policystability.com/programs/
markdown_url: https://policystability.com/programs/index.md
publisher: "Center for Policy & Stability"
description: "The six programs under which the Center's Notes and Analysis are organized."
updated: 2026-11-01
language: en
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# Research Programs

> The six programs under which the Center's Notes and Analysis are organized.


- [Poverty & Living Standards](https://policystability.com/programs/poverty-living-standards/index.md): Income, deprivation, and material hardship in the world's wealthiest countries.
- [Health & Affordability](https://policystability.com/programs/health-affordability/index.md): Access to care, medical debt, and the cost of staying well.
- [Work & Wages](https://policystability.com/programs/work-wages/index.md): Unemployment, insecure work, and pay that no longer covers the basics.
- [Education](https://policystability.com/programs/education/index.md): Unequal schooling, student debt, and the narrowing paths to opportunity.
- [Cost of Living & Housing](https://policystability.com/programs/cost-of-living-housing/index.md): Rents, homelessness, energy bills, and the prices households cannot avoid.
- [Corruption & Institutional Failure](https://policystability.com/programs/corruption-institutional-failure/index.md): When public institutions fail the people they exist to serve.