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Professional interests

  • The welfare state, social policy, and adult-, child-, and family well-being
  • Poverty and anti-poverty policies, especially tax and transfer programs
  • Labor standards including paid leave and minimum wage
  • Wage equity for human services workers
  • Mixed-methods and interdisciplinary research
  • Integrated administrative data

Jennifer Romich

Professor

Director, West Coast Poverty Center

PhD, Northwestern University

Professor Jennie Romich teaches social welfare policy and policy practice classes.

She studies resources and economic well-being in families with an emphasis on low-income workers, household budgets, and families’ interactions with public policy. Her recent projects include research into effective marginal tax rates created by means-tested benefit schedules and the tax system; an investigation of income of families involved with the child welfare system; and mixed-method evaluations of local policy interventions, including the City of the Seattle Paid Safe and Sick Time Ordinance and $15 minimum wage.

Romich serves as faculty director of the West Coast Poverty Center and is an active member of the Center for Studies of Demography and Ecology.  She co-leads the national effort on “Reducing Extreme Economic Inequality” for the American Academy of Social Work & Social Welfare’s Grand Challenges Initiative .

Romich holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and earned a doctorate in human development and social policy from Northwestern University.

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