Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality

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)

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)

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 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)

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)

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)

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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".