Social/Family Policy

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

T. Law and L. McCall. Socius. vol. 10. 2024.

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.

M. Slopen. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 2024.

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.

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.

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.

H. Hoynes, N. Maestas, and A. Strand. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 71. 2023.

Carol Jenkins leads a panel discussion on child poverty and related policy interventions, featuring Regina S. Baker, Janet Gornick, Jeff Madrick, and Zachary Parolin.

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.