Although an accurate estimate of how the poverty rate has changed since 1964 would show that we are much closer to achieving President…
Legacies of the War on Poverty is a set of nine studies, edited by Martha Bailey and Sheldon Danziger, that assess the successes and…
In his 1965 report on the black family, Daniel Patrick Moynihan highlighted the rising fraction of black children growing up in households…
It’s the American dream: get a good education, work hard, buy a house, and achieve prosperity and success. This is the America we believe…
Alice Goffman’s book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, is one of those rare publications by a sociologist that creates an…
Through the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, the World Economic Forum quantifies the magnitude of gender-based disparities and tracks their…
On the Run is an engrossing book that should also become an ethnographic classic. It describes the world of young jobless black men who…
This article responds to Loïc Wacquant's elaboration of his overarching theoretical framework in his stimulating article ‘Marginality,…
Four out of five urban workers in modern India are engaged in the informal economy, and half of these are self-employed This article…
Our recent paper (1) shows that, since 2002, obesity prevalence has declined among higher socio-economic status (SES) youth but continued…