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    Even the Facts are Polarized

    February 3, 2020
    The Indicator | Professor of Economics Stefanie Stantcheva joins The Indicator from Planet Money to talk about her research on the "Polarization of Reality." [audio + transcript]
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    Event video: Coping with Extreme Poverty on $2.00 a Day

    Event video: Coping with Extreme Poverty on $2.00 a Day

    November 27, 2015

    Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy | $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, the focus of the Malcolm Wiener Center book event with authors Kathryn Edin (Johns Hopkins University) and H. Luke Shaefer (University of Michigan), has been selected as one of 100 Notable Books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review.

    Edin and Shaefer were joined for a discussion with David T. Ellwood and William Julius Wilson, November 10, 2015, at the Harvard Kennedy School. 
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    Event video: Matthew Desmond on Evicted

    March 3, 2016


    A Malcolm Wiener Center
    for Social Policy event

    The launch of Matthew Desmond's new book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, was the occasion of a book event sponsored by the Malcolm Wiener Center at Harvard Kennedy School.

    Matthew Desmond, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard, was joined by a panel of experts, moderated by Bruce Western, Director of the Malcolm Wiener Center, including William Julius Wilson of Harvard University, Xavier de Souza Briggs of the Ford Foundation, and Jennifer Gonnerman of The New Yorker.

    Event video: Race and Justice in the Age of Obama

    Event video: Race and Justice in the Age of Obama

    October 12, 2016

    Harvard IOP | Panelists Paul Monteiro, Acting Director of Community Relations Service at the U.S. Department of Justice; Brittany Packnett, Vice President of National Communities Alliances, Teach for America and Co-founder of Campaign Zero; and Avik Roy, President of The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity and Editor of Forbes Opinion join moderator Leah Wright Rigueur, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, for a John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum event. Opening remarks by Douglas Elmendorf, Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School. Co-sponsored by the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.

    Event video: The American Dream in Crisis: Can Education Restore Social Mobility?

    Event video: The American Dream in Crisis: Can Education Restore Social Mobility?

    February 1, 2016

    HGSE Askwith Forum | Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, shares insights from Our Kids, his examination of how the American Dream of equal opportunity is in crisis. He is joined by Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Henry Lee Professor of Economics and Professor of Education, and Meira Levinson, Professor of Education, who consider what educators can do. The research of doctoral fellow Anthony Abraham Jack, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, gets a shout-out at the 1:09:23 mark.

    Event video: Trump, Brexit and the Rise of Nationalist Populism in the US and Europe

    Event video: Trump, Brexit and the Rise of Nationalist Populism in the US and Europe

    September 28, 2016

    Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies |  Panel featuring Joachim Fritz-Vannahme (Director, Programme Europe’s Future, Bertelsmann Stiftung), Dani Rodrik (Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard Kennedy School), Theda Skocpol (Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology), Daniel Ziblatt (Professor of Government), and chaired by Bart Bonikowski (Associate Professor of Sociology).... Read more about Event video: Trump, Brexit and the Rise of Nationalist Populism in the US and Europe

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