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Who Are Immigration's Winners and Losers?

October 17, 2016

WBUR—Radio Boston | Both major party candidates have staked claims on the impact of immigration on the U.S. Harvard economist George Borjas says each side of the debate is ignoring key points about the economic impacts of immigration. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, is the author of We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative, published this month by W.W. Norton and Company.



Whither the Sanders Left?

September 21, 2016

Democracy Journal| By Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology. Part of Democracy's fall symposium on "The Unseen Election".



Whither Central Banking?

August 23, 2019

Project Syndicate | By Lawrence H. Summers and Anna Stanwbury. Anna Stansbury is a PhD candidate in Economics and a Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration.



White people think racism is getting worse. Against white people.

July 21, 2016

Washington Post | By Samuel Sommers (Tufts) and Michael Norton (Harvard Business School): Our research found whites think anti-white bias is more of a problem than anti-black bias. Our research also suggests that among whites, there’s a lingering view that the American Dream is a “fixed pie,” such that the advancement of one group of citizens must come at the expense of all the other groups.
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White gloves, aluminum cans, and plasma

May 11, 2016

Marketplace: The Uncertain Hour (podcast)| A look back at how families have fared in the two decades since welfare reform, with perspectives from David Ellwood, Scott M. Black Professor of Political Economy and Chair of the US Partnership on Mobility from Poverty [audio: 34 minutes].



Where you grow up matters in an unequal economy. Here's how.

October 26, 2017

PBS NewsHour | Nathaniel Hendren, Professor of Economics, is interviewed for this segement. [Video and full transcript] 



Where will the White House begin and the Trump Organization end?

November 14, 2016

Washington Post | By Danielle Allen, Professor of Government and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard.



Where the candidates stand on criminal justice and policing

October 19, 2016

PBS Newshour | Leah Wright Rigueur of the Harvard Kennedy School guests.



Where History and Humanities Meet Public Policy: Q+A with Khalil Gibran Muhammad

September 27, 2016

Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy | Khalil Gibran Muhammad, who joins the Harvard Kennedy School faculty this year as Professor of History, Race, and Public Policy, sits down for an interview about the challenges facing America after the presidential election, the importance of the humanities, and the need to pay attention to the black public sphere.



When Workers Become Owners

June 21, 2016

No Jargon [Podcast—Ep. 38] | Harvard economist Richard Freeman joins Joseph Blasi and Douglas Kruse of Rutgers University to explain how sharing the ownership or profits of a company with workers can improve productivity, pay, and work life quality—all while reducing economic inequality. No Jargon presents interviews with top university scholars on the politics, policy problems, and social issues facing the nation. Subscribe  in iTunes, or listen to individual episodes at the SSN website.

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