Current issue: April 2026
Stone Center Receives $10 Million Gift for Future Work
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| Funding from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation will strengthen the Stone Center’s public scholarship on the causes, nature, and consequences of socio-economic inequality. The five-year gift will support 10 additional postdoctoral scholars, many Graduate Center Ph.D. student researchers, and the Stone Center staff. |
Two New Postdoctoral Scholars Will Join the Stone Center
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| An eighth cohort of postdoctoral scholars will join the Stone Center for two-year appointments that begin in August 2026. Jasmine Simington was selected for the position that focuses on wealth inequality and is affiliated with the GC Wealth Project. Christopher Pulliam was selected for the position that broadly focuses on mobility and poverty. |
Junior Scholar Bobbie Justin: Why Older Adults with Disabilities Need Better Care
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When Stone Center Junior Scholar Bobbie Justin came to the Graduate Center, she already had more than a decade of experience working directly with patients as a medical social worker. She entered the Ph.D. program in Social Welfare determined to focus her research on improving care for older adults with disabilities.
Class Background Matters for Career Progression — in Academia and Beyond
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| Gender and race have rightly become central to how researchers and organizations think about career disparities in elite occupations. But there is a glaring omission: class. Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Anna Stansbury and Kyra Rodriguez discuss their Stone Center working paper: “The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from U.S. Academia.” |
The Latest from the GC Wealth Project: The Middle 40% Wealth Share: Why is the United States an Exception?
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| The extensive data infrastructure of the GC Wealth Project, particularly the Wealth Inequality Trends section, allows you to compare estimates of the middle 40% wealth share across countries and data sources — and to see how the U.S. differs from other countries when it is included in international comparisons. |
The Great Global Transformation: The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order
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| Experts will discuss Branko Milanovic’s timely new book on the changing roles of the U.S. and China as global powers. Register now to join us online or in person at the Graduate Center for this event on May 6 at 6:30 p.m. ET. |
ICYMI: Affordability, Antitrust, and Inequality: Lina M. Khan and Paul Krugman in Conversation
Affordability was a central theme of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s campaign, and it is now a hot topic in national politics across party lines. Watch two leading thinkers, Lina M. Khan and Paul Krugman, discuss innovative solutions to the affordability crisis and how affordability, antitrust, and inequality are related.
Scholars Gather at New Stone Centre at the University of Hong Kong
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Stone Center Director Janet Gornick, Stone Center affiliated scholar Philippe Van Kerm, and LIS Directors Peter Lanjouw and Teresa Munzi took part in a two-day event at the new James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Socio-Economic Inequality in Asia at the University of Hong Kong. In addition, Gornick presented a seminar on “High and Rising Economic Inequalities in Affluent Countries: Nature, Causes, and Consequences.”
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The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, a research center at the Graduate Center, CUNY, conducts and promotes quantitative research using inequality as a lens on society, the economy, and politics. The faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and students working within the Stone Center share a commitment to scholarship that is data-driven, interdisciplinary, oriented toward policy and institutional change, and that addresses questions about inequality throughout the world.
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When Stone Center Junior Scholar Bobbie Justin came to the Graduate Center, she already had more than a decade of experience working directly with patients as a medical social worker. She entered the Ph.D. program in Social Welfare determined to focus her research on improving care for older adults with disabilities.
