Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality

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The Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality has five objectives: to monitor trends in poverty and inequality, to support scientific analysis of poverty and inequality, to develop science-based policy on poverty and inequality, to disseminate data and research on poverty and inequalit…

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    • Nov 29, 2012 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 31m AVG DURATION
    • 16 EPISODES


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    Changes to Federal Aid Programs

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2012 7:52


    Diantha Parker and Indivar Dutta-Gupta discuss ways to address and fix poverty in the United States. They explain how different programs and policies can be altered and improved. (November 6, 2012)

    How--and If--Recessions Affect Public Opinion

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2012 9:07


    Lane Kenworthy and Paul Taylor say recessions can change people's opinions on government and the economy -- but those new views don't always stick. (April 21, 2012)

    Are Unplanned Pregnancies Always Unplanned?

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2012 7:22


    Paula England discusses surveys she conducted of women attending community college in the Bay Area regarding sex, contraception and pregnancies among lower socio-economic classes. (January 13, 2012)

    Fertility and the Great Recession: Is It Spoiling the Mood?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2011 9:25


    Fertility and bithrates tend to go down during recessions. But Duke University's Phillip S. Morgan says families responded to The Great Recession differently depending on where they lived...and who they voted for. (October 18, 2011)

    Learning From Recoveries Past

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2011 8:58


    Michael Hout talks with Diantha Parker about how to recover from recessions and why methods that have worked for the United States in the past might not be as effective this time. (September 30, 2011)

    Did the Great Recession Make Us All Philanthropists?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2011 8:31


    Robert Reich says many people still gave money away during the Great Recession -- but for different reasons than they might have done in better times. (October 7, 2011)

    Piecing Together the Puzzle of Executive Pay

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2011 13:38


    Diantha Parker talks to Alex Edmans, Jesse Fried, and Robert Frank about just what is going on with skyrocketing executive pay in recent years --and what to do about it.

    Refashioning Income Supports for Children in Poverty

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2011 10:11


    Diantha Parker talks to Greg Duncan about new evidence suggesting a radically different approach to income support policies targeted at low-income families.

    Disconnected Young Adults in the Great Recession

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2011 12:37


    Diantha Parker talks to University of Wisconsin economist Tim Smeeding about one of the groups being hit hardest by the Great Recession -- young, undereducated men -- and what we can do to help reconnect them to the labor force.

    The Great Destruction of Household Wealth

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2011 10:35


    Diantha Parker talks to NYU economist Edward Wolff about how much wealth we have lost in the Great Recession -- and who is being hit the hardest.

    The Big Chill in Consumer Spending

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2011 5:49


    Diantha Parker talks to Stanford economist Luigi Pistaferri about what has happened to Americans' spending habits in the Great Recession and its aftermath and what this means for the future.

    What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2007 93:35


    Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen explores the issue of what we want from a theory of justice.

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    Inequality and Politics: Where Are We Going and What is to be Done?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2007 77:49


    To what extent is meaningful democracy feasible in the context of extreme inequality? How might the role of money and influence on political outcomes be reduced?

    Income Inequality

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2007 70:00


    A debate and discussion series from the Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality. Cornell Economics Professor Robert Frank and Princeton Sociology Professor Bruce Western are featured for the first program on Income Inequality.

    Gender Inequality: Where Are We Going and What is to be Done?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2007 75:04


    What is the likely future of gender inequality? What types of social policy should be devised to increase gender equality?

    Race and Inequality

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2007 80:05


    Controversies about Inequality: Where are we going and what is to be done?Mary C. Waters, professor of Sociology from Harvard University and Howard Winant, professor of Sociology from UC Santa Barbara will be debating "Race and Inequality".

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