Professor Jennie Romich studies resources and economic in families with a particular emphasis on low income workers, household budgets and families’ interactions with public policy. Her recent poverty-related projects include ongoing research into effective marginal tax rates created by means-tested benefit schedules and the tax system; a study of the effects of highway tolls on low-income households; research into financial services used by low-income consumers; and a mixed-methods investigation of income of families involved with the child welfare system.

Research/Teaching Areas: Poverty and social policy, Income supports delivered as tax and transfer programs, Asset building and financial services for the poor or under-banked Labor standards (paid sick time, minimum wage), Employment / financial circumstances and child/family well-being.

Current Projects/Research: Abrahamson-Richards*, Teresa, Kilohana Haitsuka*, Elizabeth Pelletier, and Jennifer Romich. In press. “Perinatal Wage Equity, Parental Leave Access, and Reproductive Justice Among American Indian and Alaska Native Working Mothers in Washington State,” Social Service Review.

Pelletier, Elizabeth* and Jennifer Romich, 2025. "Supplementing state employment records with demographic data," Monthly Labor Review, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, February 2025, https://doi.org/10.21916/mlr.2025.2.

Wage Equity Study Team, 2023. “Wage Equity for Non-profit Human Services Workers: A study of work and pay in Seattle and King County.” Seattle, WA: University of Washington. February. (Role: PI and primary author).

“Invest in human services workforce to strengthen families, communities” (with Emiko Tajima and Eddie Uehara; March 26, 2023). Seattle Times.