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Will taxes be a stumbling block or an opportunity in the Democratic debate?

January 15, 2016

Brookings Institution | By Vanessa S. Williamson (Ph.D. '15, now a Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings).



Will the Robot Economy Endanger Equality?

October 27, 2015

WBEZ Chicago | Guest: Andrew Leigh (Ph.D. '04)



Will This New Book Change the National Debate on Poverty?

March 29, 2016

The Nation | Discusses faculty affiliate Matthew Desmond's new book Evicted.




Will Welfare Reform Increase Upward Mobility?

March 26, 2015

Forbes | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09)



William Barr thinks China is stealing American technology. Can the U.S. halt the exchange of knowledge?

February 20, 2020

Washington Post | By Peter A. Hall and Yeling Tan. U.S. companies — and the scientific community — could lose out in the long term, the authors argue. Peter Hall is Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies at Harvard. Yeling Tan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Oregon.



William Julius Wilson awarded W.E.B. Du Bois Distinguished Career of Scholarship Award

August 17, 2014

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William Julius Wilson Delivers Stirring SAGE-CASBS Award Lecture on Inequality, Race

June 19, 2017

Stanford University - Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences | A discussion of William Julius Wilson's award lecture, "Reflctions on American Race Relations in the Age of Donald Trump."  Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard, is the recipient of the 2017 SAGE-CASBS Award for "outstanding achievement in the behavioral and social sciences that advance our understanding of pressing social issues." Wilson was recognized as "one of the nation's most accomplished scholars of race, inequality, and poverty."
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William Julius Wilson discusses “The Declining Significance of Race” on Voice of America’s Press Conference USA

July 2, 2015

Library of Congress | William Julius Wilson.  Listen to VOA interview ►

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William Julius Wilson named to Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance

February 11, 2015

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William Julius Wilson speaks at National Museum of African American History and Culture conference

May 20, 2016

National Museum of African American History and Culture | William Julius Wilson, Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor, spoke at "The Future of the African American Past," a three-day event sponsored by the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture and the American Historical Association.
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