The Impact of Paid Sick Leave Mandates on Women’s Employment and Economic Security
M. Slopen. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 2024.
Looking at the Workplace as a Site to Reduce Inequality
Meredith Slopen, a Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, recently testified in Albany about why New York State should expand its paid family leave policy. Her research focuses on ways that workplace polices can reduce inequality throughout the life course.
Child Poverty in America: Investing in Our Future
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.
Zachary Parolin on What We Learned About U.S. Poverty, and Ways to Reduce It, from the Pandemic
In this interview, Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Zachary Parolin discusses his new book, "Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from Covid-19," and assesses an array of policies that would improve economic well-being in the long term.
Legal Representation in Disability Claims
H. Hoynes, N. Maestas, and A. Strand. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 71. 2023.
Child Poverty in America: Investing in Our Future
Carol Jenkins leads a panel discussion on child poverty and related policy interventions, featuring Regina S. Baker, Janet Gornick, Jeff Madrick, and Zachary Parolin.
Grounded in History and Place: Critical Science for Health Justice and the People’s Health
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.
The Criminal Legal System and Population Health Inequality
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.
Geographic Disparities in the U.S. Social Safety Net: An Underexamined Dimension of Inequality
In this post, Stone Center research assistant Joseph van der Naald discusses the chapter of the recently published "Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth" that he co-authored with Sarah Bruch and Janet Gornick.
As the Nordic Model Gains Surprising Popularity in the U.S., Lane Kenworthy Assesses Its Potential Advantages for Families
In this interview, University of California-San Diego sociologist and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Lane Kenworthy discusses his latest book, “Would Democratic Socialism Be Better?”