A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Shawn Fremstad, JD, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily represent the views of either organization. August 22, 2016 Millennial […]
Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / TANF & Public AssistanceEconomic Inequality
Economic Inequality
It’s Women’s History Month: Why is pay for caregiving work so low relative to other jobs with similarly low requirements for formal education?
Experts: Paula England, PhD.
It’s Women’s History Month: Why is pay for caregiving work so low relative to other jobs with similarly low requirements for formal education? A Briefing Paper Prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Paula England, Ph.D, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies at New York University. March 15, 2016 Two […]
Topics of Expertise: Economic InequalityPresidential Candidate Fact Checked by CCF Experts: Stephanie Coontz, Nancy Folbre, and Kristi Williams
Experts: Kristi Williams, Ph.D. / Nancy Folbre, Ph.D. / Stephanie Coontz
RH Fact Check cited CCF members Stephanie Coontz, Nancy Folbre, and Kristi Williams in its review of Jeb Bush’s comments on poverty and marriage, Hard Work and Marriage Aren’t the Magic Cure-Alls for Poverty Jeb Bush Is Hoping For.
Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Work & FamilyHealth Care Is a Family Stressor—So There’s Good News
Experts: Philip Cohen, Ph.D.
September 16, 2015; The U.S. Census Bureau’s report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage, released today, reflects the continued uncertainty for U.S. families that has persisted since the Great Recession. Year-to-year changes in most trends were modest or not statistically significant—except in the case of health insurance coverage—but the longer-term trends are important. Specifically: […]
Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Health CareMoynihan’s Half Century: Have We Gone to Hell in a Hand Basket?
Experts: Jeffrey Hayes, Ph.D. / Philip Cohen, Ph.D.
This briefing paper was prepared as part of an online symposium Moynihan+50: Family Structure Still not the Problem for the Council on Contemporary Families and published jointly by CCF and the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). By Philip N. Cohen, Heidi Hartmann, Jeff Hayes and Chandra Childers Executive Summary In The Negro Family: The […]
Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Race, Ethnicity & CultureA Class Act? Stability and Instability in Children’s Lives
Contrary to popular opinion, growing instability in American families, reflected not just in divorce rates but falling rates of marriage and high rates of unwed motherhood, is not caused by people abandoning traditional concerns for children’s well-being. It is a class issue caused by the growing gap between the job options, resources, economic stability, and personal safety nets available to college-educated Americans and less-educated workers. The authors explain.
Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Economic InequalityFamily Diversity is the New Normal for America’s Children
Experts: Philip Cohen, Ph.D.
People often think of social change in the lives of American children since the 1950s as a movement in one direction – from children being raised in married, male-breadwinner families to a new norm of children being raised by working mothers, many of them unmarried. Instead, we can better understand this transformation as an explosion of diversity, a fanning out from a compact center along many different pathways.
Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / TANF & Public AssistanceCCF Civil Rights Symposium: Racial-Ethnic Realities since the Civil Rights Act
Experts: Stephanie Coontz
Overview: Changing Racial-Ethnic Realities since the Civil Rights Act Remarks by: Stephanie Coontz Today the Council on Contemporary Families releases the second set of papers in a three part symposium marking the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Yesterday researchers described the rearrangement of America’s religious landscape over the past half century. Today’s four […]
Topics of Expertise: African American Families / Economic Inequality / Immigrant, Mixed Status & Transnational Families / Latino Families / Race, Ethnicity & CultureCCF Civil Rights Symposium: Are African Americans Living the Dream 50 Years After Passage of the Civil Rights Act?
By Velma McBride Murry and Na Liu Vanderbilt University In 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his famous “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington, the momentous demonstration that helped spur passage of the Civil Rights Act the following year. He described African Americans as living “on a lonely island […]
Topics of Expertise: African American Families / Economic Inequality / Race, Ethnicity & CultureCCF Civil Rights Symposium: The State of Latino Children
By Rogelio Sáenz University of Texas at San Antonio Latinos are increasingly driving the demographic fortunes of the United States. Between 2000 and 2011, the number of white children in the country declined by 4.9 million, a decrease of 11 percent. Blacks and American Indians and Alaska Natives also saw their child populations decline. The […]
Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Childcare (Providers & Systems) / Economic Inequality / Latino Families / Race, Ethnicity & CultureEXPERTS
Samuel F. and Rose B. Gingold Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Director, Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy/ The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University
Fenaba Addo
Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Williams Distinguished Scholar, Williams Institute& Director Professor of Economics Center for Public Policy and Administration, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Professor Emerita of Sociology at University at Albany, SUNY & Faculty Affiliate at University of Washington, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sarah Damaske, PhD.
Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Sociology, and Women's Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
Katherine Gallagher Robbins
Director of Family Policy Center for American Progress
Professor of Sociology & Faculty Fellow, Honors College, University of Illinois at Chicago
Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Social Policy program, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice
Assistant Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Sociologist & Co-Director of the Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania
Associate Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University
David Maume
Professor of Sociology, University of Cincinnati
Professor of Psychology; Director of Center for Research on Families at University of Masschusetts Amherst/ Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
Professor of Sociology & Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University Medical School; Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston Medical Center; American Family Therapy Academy; Boston Center for Culturally Affirming Practices
Senior Fellow, Brookings; Professor, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan; CEPR, CESifo, IZA, NBER and GAllup
Professor of Family & Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Utah
