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American Wreckage

October 20, 2016

Radio Open Source | Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, is among the guests joining host Christopher Lyden for a discussion of the fault lines of gender, race, and class revealed in the 2016 election campaign.



American Journal of Sociology Announces 2014 Gould Prize Winner

December 29, 2014

Awardee | Christopher Muller (Ph.D. '14)



American Dream breeds shame and blame for job seekers

March 25, 2014

BBC News Magazine | Victor Tan Chen (Ph.D. '12)



America's Surprising Views on Income Inequality

November 17, 2016

The New Yorker | Cites research by psychologists Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and Dan Ariely of Duke University, which found that people "routinely underestimated existing wealth inequality."  Also quotes economist Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01), Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan.
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America's Obsession with Powerful Handguns is Giving Criminals Deadlier Tools

December 5, 2016

The Trace | Cites David Hureau (Ph.D. '16), Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at SUNY Albany and an affiliate of the University of Chicago Crime Lab. Hureau, whose research focuses on the relationship between violent crime and social inequality, has studied the market for illegal guns.



America's mayors are taking on the big problems, but they can't escape partisan divide

May 21, 2015

The Conversation | By Katherine Levine Einstein (Ph.D. '12) and David Glick



America's Biggest Problem Isn't Income Inequality. It's Concentrated Poverty

August 10, 2015

The Atlantic—CityLab | Highlights work of Robert Sampson and Patrick Sharkey (Ph.D. '07) in illuminating wide-ranging effects of concentrated poverty.



America's best program for the poor may be even better than we thought

July 16, 2015

Vox |Cites work by Jonah Rockoff (Ph.D. '04), co-authored with Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman, on long-term impacts of tax credits on children's test scores, college attendance, earnings, and teen birth rates.



Alumni awarded RSF Presidential Authority grants

November 14, 2019

Russell Sage Foundation | Alumni Michael Hankinson (PhD in Government & Social Policy, 2017), Sarah Halpern-Meekin (PhD in Sociology & Social Policy, 2019), and Nathan Wilmers (PhD in Sociology, 2018) are among the fall 2019 recipients of RSF Presidential Authority grants in the area of Social, Political, and Economic Inequality.



All Hollowed Out: The lonely poverty of America's white working class

January 16, 2016

The Atlantic | By Victor Tan Chen (Ph.D. '12, now Virginia Commonwealth University). His new book, Cut Loose: Jobless and Hopeless in an Unfair Economy, was published by University of California Press in 2015.

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