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To Fix Regional Inequality, Target the One Percent

March 25, 2019

Washington Monthly | By Robert Manduca, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. Because some places are doing well while others are not, we tend to assume that disparities are largely a local problem, writes Robert Manduca. But if national income inequality in the US is largely responsible for the growing economic dispartity between its regions, as Manduca's research suggests, fixing struggling regions will require a different set of policies.

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The worrisome return of a racist form of home lending

May 5, 2016

Urban Institute | By Steven Brown, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology. How and why "contract for deed" is making a comeback and what it means for economic mobility and wealth accumulation for minority families.



The Urban Jobs Crisis

May 15, 2013

Harvard Magazine | by James M. Quane, William Julius Wilson, and Jackelyn Hwang (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology & Social Policy)



The stalled, struggling black middle class

February 10, 2016

Urban Institute | By Kreg Steven Brown, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology.



The Real Unemployment Insurance Fix No One Is Talking About

February 6, 2014

Talking Points Memo Cafe | By Alex Gould Werth and Alex Hertel-Fernandez (Ph.D. candidate in Government & Social Policy)



The First Gen Movement

April 22, 2015

American RadioWorks | Guests: Anthony Jack (Ph.D. candidate in Sociology), Ana Barros (Harvard College '16)



The Costs of Inequality: Education is the one key that rules

February 15, 2016

Harvard Gazette | Featuring Inequality & Social Policy faculty participants Ronald Ferguson, Roland Fryer, Robert Putnam, and Lawrence Katz. Third in a series on what Harvard scholars are doing to understand and find solutions to problems of inequality. This article also appeared at US News and World Report.



The CFPB Is Making Government More Accountable. The GOP Wants to Stop It

June 9, 2017

Washington Monthly | By Barbara Kiviat, PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. The Financial CHOICE Act would remove the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s popular consumer complaints database from public view. At a time when many Americans feel government is unaccountable and out of touch with the day-to-day lives of everyday people, Kiviat argues, "Keeping complaints visible to the full American public, and not just to government bureaucrats, represents one of the more innovative mechanisms of accountability to emerge from federal government in recent years."



The census has always been political. Especially when it comes to race, ethnicity, and national origin.

March 30, 2018

Washington Post | By Shom Mazumder, PhD candidate in Government and a James M. and Cathleen D. Stone PhD Scholar in Inequality and Wealth Concentration.



Ted Cruz cited this research when he said most violent criminals are Democrats. Now the researchers say he's wrong.

December 2, 2015

Washington Post | By Marc Meredith (University of Pennsylvania) and Michael Morse (Ph.D. student in Government). Meredith and Morse, authors of the 2014 paper cited by Cruz, detail how their research does not support his claim. Also noted in their reply: research by Vesla Weaver (Ph.D. '07, now Yale University) and Traci Burch (Ph.D. '07, now Northwestern University).

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