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    2016 Hutchins Forum: Race and the Race to the White House

    2016 Hutchins Forum: Race and the Race to the White House

    August 18, 2016

    PBS NewsHour |The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University held its annual summer Hutchins Forum. Among the panelists: Inequality & Social Policy faculty affiliates Leah Wright Rigueur of the Harvard Kennedy School and Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard. View the video via PBS NewsHour.

    • Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University
    • Charlayne Hunter-Gault, PBS NewsHour

    • Charles M. Blow, The New York Times
    • Donna Brazile, Democratic National Committee
    • Armstrong Williams, The Right Side
    • Leah Wright Rigueur, Harvard Kennedy School
    • Lawrence D. Bobo, Harvard University

    2016 Discover Great New Writers Awards: Matthew Desmond

    2016 Discover Great New Writers Awards: Matthew Desmond

    March 1, 2017

    Awardee | The winners of the 2016 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Awards in fiction and nonfiction were announced today in a ceremony in New York City. Matthew Desmond's Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City took first place in the non-fiction category. Desmond is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.

    2015-2016 New Scholar Grant Winners

    2015-2016 New Scholar Grant Winners

    December 21, 2015

    Awardee| Deirdre Bloome (Ph.D. '14, now University of Michigan) is one of seven New Scholar grant recipients selected by Stanford's Center on Poverty and Inequality. Bloome will investigate (1) to what extent intragenerational and intergenerational income mobility contribute to lifetime income inequality, (2) how these contributions have changed across recent birth cohorts, and (3) whether these differ across people from low- and high-income backgrounds—with an eye to understanding "how income mobility over the life course relates to income inequality between people."

    20 Years Since Welfare 'Reform': How Has America Fared?

    20 Years Since Welfare 'Reform': How Has America Fared?

    August 22, 2016

    The Atlantic | By Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. "TANF offered states a lot of flexibility to innovate, to allow a flowering of new ideas to help the poor. But that’s not what the country got," write Edin and Shaefer. "Instead it got a new kind of welfare queens: states. States, not people, are using TANF to close the holes in their budgets. It is states, not people, who are falling prey to the “perverse disincentives” of welfare."

    Edin, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and Shaefer, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, spoke about their book, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, in a Malcolm Wiener Center event at the Harvard Kennedy School in November 2015.
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    Roberto Gonzales

    15 Professors the Year: Roberto G. Gonzales

    September 14, 2017
    Fifteen Minutes Magazine - The Harvard Crimson | Roberto Gonzales has done extensive research on undocumented immigrant youth and young adult populations in America. An interview.
    Danielle Allen

    15 Professors of the Year: Danielle S. Allen

    September 14, 2017
    Fifteen Minutes Magazine - The Harvard Crimson |Danielle Allen, one of the 15 Professors of 2017, has been trying to shift the conversation from inequality to equality. An interview.
    101 economists defend the'Cadillac tax'

    101 economists defend the'Cadillac tax'

    October 1, 2015

    Letter to Congress | A group of prominent health economists and policy analysts issued a statement urging that Congress take no action to weaken the Cadillac tax "unless and until it enacts an alternative tax change that would more effectively curtail cost growth." Signatories include Amitabh Chandra, David Cutler, David Ellwood, Douglas Elmendorf, Lawrence Katz, Tom Vogl (Ph.D. '11), and Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01).

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