Social/Family Policy

Leaders of both political parties are promoting economic and social policies that challenge key tenets of neoliberalism. Where do the parties overlap and diverge, and what are the real prospects for change? Chris Hughes, Leslie McCall, and Dorian T. Warren discuss these issues in a panel moderated by Felicia Wong.

Postdoctoral scholar Meredith Slopen discusses her upcoming position in Stony Brook University’s School of Social Welfare, the current academic and social services job markets, and how to help other researchers who have faced professional upheaval in recent months.

M. Gurín and J. C. Gornick. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy. pp. 1–19. 2025.

Leslie McCall, associate director of the Stone Center and Presidential Professor of Sociology and Political Science, discusses public opinion about inequality, wages, and related economic and policy issues in a video for the Russell Sage Foundation, where she was a 2023–2024 visiting scholar.

A panel of experts discusses today's shifting economic landscape and the possibilities for change.

Meredith Slopen, a Stone Center postdoctoral scholar, discusses her project on how older workers benefit from paid family leave and paid sick leave policies, for which she recently received a fellowship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Retirement and Disability Research Center and the Institute for Research on Poverty.

M. Slopen. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 100. 2025.

A. Desai. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 98. 2024.

Aman Desai, a Ph.D. candidate in economics and a Stone Center Junior Scholar, discusses his working paper "Measuring Income Inequality of Opportunity," and how his interest in engineering and mathematics led him to inequality studies.

In this post, Stone Center Senior Scholar Paul Krugman reintroduces his Substack newsletter. He also discusses parallels between current and past efforts "to bring a business sensibility" to the federal budget, with the goal of eliminating inefficiency.