Social/Family Policy

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.

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.

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?”

In this post, Stone Center Scholar Leslie McCall reflects on a recent panel, Building Political Alliances Across Race and Class, hosted by the Stone Center and the Graduate Center.

A panel discussion of how diverse coalitions across race and class can bring about much needed change to our political system, institutions, and social policies. Introduction by Leslie McCall.

E. Aerts, I. Marx, and Z. Parolin. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 51. 2022.

In this commentary, Ive Marx of the University of Antwerp and Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Brian Nolan of the University of Oxford introduce a special issue of the Journal of European Social Policy focused on social policy and wealth.

In this video, a panel of social scientists, including Janet Gornick and Leslie McCall, discuss ways for researchers to move beyond describing and quantifying the problem of inequality and to focus instead on ways to reduce it.

In this commentary, Nancy Folbre, director of the Program on Gender and Care Work at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Stone Center Affiliated Scholar, discusses the unequal impact of remote work on women.

In this interview, the authors explain why childless households are fueling the rise in poverty in the United States, and how simple policy changes could end this problem.