Poverty

P. Valetto and I. Marx. Stone Center Working Paper Series no. 116. 2025.

Kenworthy, a professor of sociology and the Yankelovich Chair in Social Thought at the University of California, San Diego, discusses the findings in his latest book, which examines whether reducing income inequality would have beneficial effects on living standards, health, economic opportunity, the functioning of democracy, and subjective measures of happiness.

A panel of experts helps us understand the complex realities of China today.

D. Brady, A. Bocanegra, D. Cervantes, L. Macy, and N. R. Saravia. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 106. 2025.

S. Rapp and S. Humer. Social Inclusion. vol. 11, no. 1. pp. 176–186. 2023.

J. C. Gornick, D. Brady, I. Marx, and Z. Parolin. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 84. 2024.

L. Azzollini, R. Breen, and B. Nolan. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 80. 2023.

M. Bavaro, R. Carranza, and B. Nolan. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 79. 2023.

When the enhanced Child Tax Credit of 2021 was not renewed by Congress, millions of American children fell back into poverty. A panel moderated by Carol Jenkins and featuring Regina S. Baker, Kathryn J. Edin, Janet Gornick, and Zachary Parolin discusses what we can and should do now.

Research by Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Regina S. Baker of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Heather A. O’Connell of Louisiana State University analyzes the impact of structural racism on poverty among single-mother and married-parent households in the U.S. South.