Janet Gornick, Sarah K. Bruch of the University of Delaware, and Graduate Center Sociology Ph.D. student Joseph van der Naald, have begun work on a sponsored project funded by Social Security Administration (SSA) through a newly created national research center.
In this interview, economist and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Anna Stansbury discusses her recently published study on the lack of socio-economic diversity within the field of economics.
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.
Ryan Smith, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, examines persistent inequalities by gender and race in the workplace and the central role of people in positions of authority, and their mis/understandings of racial inequality, for achieving meaningful diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace.
Nancy Krieger, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, provides an in-depth review of her lifelong research on public health disparities across geographical areas and their historical origins in racial structures such as Jim Crow, and her ongoing development of area-based social and health metrics in the pandemic age.
Jaquelyn Jahn, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, bridges research on structural racism, the criminal legal system, and health outcomes to examine the impact of the criminal legal system on individual, family, and community health, demonstrating why police violence should be viewed as a public health crisis.
Deborah Balk, with Daniela Tagtachian, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, uses a wealth of new data sources and measures to examine global, regional, and racial variation in exposure to low-lying coastal zones, demonstrating the need to address climate change through a social equity lens.
James Parrott, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, provides an update on his 2020 presentation, showing long-term trends in wages, employment, and inequality in New York City, including during the pandemic, and demonstrating the importance of local public policy in reducing racial and economic inequality.
Jacob Faber, in this presentation for the Stone Center’s Inequality by the Numbers 2023 virtual workshop, assembles archival and census data from the past one hundred years to examine the long-term impact of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC, which was responsible for redlining) on large, enduring Black-white disparities in home ownership.