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Poverty and Social Policy Seminars
The Columbia University's Center on Poverty and Social Policy, The Hamilton Project at Brookings, and the Russell Sage Foundation host a book launch of Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19 with author Zachary Parolin, followed by a policy discussion.
Eva Rosen of Georgetown University discussed her book The Voucher Promise, in which she examines the Housing Choice Voucher Program through the lives of families living in a neighborhood in Baltimore, MD.
Christina Cross, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, presented on family structures as they relate to race and class.
Daniel Edmiston, Lecturer at the University of Leeds, made the case for a pluralistic approach to poverty measurement to capture heterogeneity within broader analytical and methodological category of ‘the poor’.
Jacob Faber, Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Service at New York University, discussed his recent research on the racial impacts of the New Deal housing policies that still persist today.
Mark Stabile, Professor of Economics at INSEAD, discussed the welfare effects of child benefits and evaluated the Canadian Child Benefit.
Kelley Fong shared her current research focused on Child Protective Services as a state response to families facing adversity.
José Pacas, visiting scholar from University of Minnesota, shared his work on the factors influencing poverty transitions.
Rucker Johnson, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley discussed his book, Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works.
Professor Cybelle Fox discussed her paper examining measures passed by the California and New York state legislatures in the early 1970s designed to bar unauthorized immigrants from access to public assistance.
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