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Economic Inequality

Economic Inequality

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  • CCF Civil Rights Symposium: The State of Latino Children

    Posted on February 5, 2014 in Brief Reports


    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 […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Childcare (Providers & Systems) / Economic Inequality / Latino Families / Race, Ethnicity & Culture
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    Red states, blue states, and divorce: Understanding the impact of conservative protestantism on regional variation in divorce rates

    Posted on January 16, 2014 in Press Releases
    Experts: Jennifer Glass

    Why are divorce rates higher in religiously conservative “red” states and lower in less religiously conservative “blue” states? After all, most conservatives frown upon divorce, and religious commitment is believed to strengthen marriage, not erode it. Even so, religiously conservative states Alabama and Arkansas have the second and third highest divorce rates in the U.S., at 13 per 1000 people per year while New Jersey and Massachusetts, more liberal states, are two of the lowest at 6 and 7 per 1000 people per year.

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    Topics of Expertise: Couples Conflict, Separation & Divorce / Economic Inequality
    divorce, marriage, poverty, religion Read More

    Was the War on Poverty a failure? Or are anti-poverty efforts simply swimming against a stronger tide?

    Posted on January 6, 2014 in Brief Reports


    This month marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration of an “unconditional war on poverty.” Yet this month also marks over a quarter century since President Ronald Reagan’s 1988 announcement that the war on poverty was over, and that poverty had won. In this report, University of Maryland sociologist Philip Cohen examines the many early victories, as well as the setbacks in the War on Poverty.

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    Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Economic Inequality / Marriage & Divorce / TANF & Public Assistance
    children and parenting, policy, social safety net Read More

    Promoting marriage among single mothers: An ineffective weapon in the war on poverty?

    Posted on January 6, 2014 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Kristi Williams

    This month marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration of an “unconditional war on poverty.” Yet this month also marks over a quarter century since President Ronald Reagan’s 1988 announcement that the war on poverty was over, and that poverty had won. Many politicians blame the resurgence of poverty on the spread of unwed motherhood and conclude that promoting marriage among low-income individuals would do more to reduce poverty than government investments. In this report, Ohio State University sociologist Kristi Williams examines how efforts to get impoverished single mothers to marry are unlikely to make much of a dent in poverty rates and may even have some harmful outcomes for mothers and children alike.

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    Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Economic Inequality / TANF & Public Assistance
    children and parenting, marriage, policy, poverty, social safety net Read More

    50th Anniversary of the War on Poverty: Have we snatched defeat from the jaws of victory?

    Posted on January 6, 2014 in Online Symposia, Press Releases


    This month marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s declaration of an “unconditional war on poverty.” Yet this month also marks over a quarter century since President Ronald Reagan’s 1988 announcement that the war on poverty was over, and that poverty had won. To mark the anniversaries of these very different points in the government’s role in poverty reduction, two researchers from the Council on Contemporary Families assess where we have come from and where we stand today.

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    Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Economic Inequality / Marriage & Divorce / TANF & Public Assistance
    children and parenting, marriage, policy, poverty, social safety net Read More

    CCF Equal Pay Symposium: 50 Years Since the Equal Pay Act of 1963

    Posted on June 7, 2013 in Online Symposia, Press Releases
    Experts: Stephanie Coontz / Virginia Rutter

    Fifty years ago this week, on June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, amending the earlier Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, to “prohibit discrimination on account of sex in the payment of wages by employers.” So, how’s that going?

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Gender & Sexuality / Labor & Workforce / Race, Ethnicity & Culture / Work & Family
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    The Gender Pay Gap by Race and Ethnicity

    Posted on June 5, 2013 in Brief Reports


    On average, white women earn 81 percent of what white men make. At first glance it may appear that there is more gender equality among minority men and women than among whites. Hispanic or Latina women make 88 percent of what Latinos do and African American women make 90 percent of what their male counterparts make. But when we add race to gender, these pay gaps become a veritable chasm. Read more to find out.

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Gender & Sexuality / Race, Ethnicity & Culture
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    Poverty, Hardship and Families: How Many People Are Poor, and What Does Being Poor in America Really Mean?

    Posted on December 5, 2011 in Brief Reports


    MEDIA CONTACT: Virginia Rutter Associate Professor of Sociology Framingham State University Board Member, Council on Contemporary Families Email: vrutter@gmail.com Phone: 206-375-4139 Retailers report that this year’s post-Thanksgiving shopping weekend broke all previous records, raising predictions of “the best holiday shopping season ever.” Yet the number of people living in poverty has also broken all previous […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality
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    The Rising Age Gap in Economic Well-Being: The Old Prosper Relative to the Young

    Posted on November 7, 2011 in Brief Reports


    By Richard Fry, Senior Economist D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer Gretchen Livingston, Senior Researcher Paul Taylor, Director Social & Demographic Trends Project Pew Research Households headed by older adults have made dramatic gains relative to those headed by younger adults in their economic well-being over the past quarter of a century, according to a new Pew […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality
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    Mass Incarceration and America’s Families

    Posted on October 12, 2010 in Brief Reports


    Low-income communities are disproportionately affected by America’s mass incarceration practices. Residents are more likely to be arrested, prosecuted, and sent to jail for the same offenses that lead to warnings, probation, or treatment programs in more affluent neighborhoods. Most convictions in low-income communities, contrary to popular impression, are for nonviolent acts, with drug users and the mentally ill heavily overrepresented in the prison population.

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality
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    EXPERTS

    M. V. Lee Badgett

    Professor of Economics, School of Public Policy UMass Amherst; Williams Institute UCLA

    Jessica Calarco

    Associate Professor of Sociology, Indiana University

    Kelly Campbell

    Professor of Psychology, California State University, San Bernardino

    Robert Crosnoe

    Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

    Sarah Damaske

    Associate Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University

    Lori Delale-O’Connor

    Assistant Professor of Education, University of Pittsburgh Center for Urban Education

    Katherine Gallagher Robbins

    Director of Family Policy, Center for American Progress

    Kathleen Gerson

    Collegiate Professor of Sociology, New York University

    Jennifer Glass

    Professor of Sociology , University of Texas, Austin

    Pilar Gonalons-Pons

    Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

    Rachel Gordon

    Professor of Sociology & Faculty Fellow of the Honors College, University of Illinois at Chicago

    Janet C. Gornick

    Director, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, Graduate Center CUNY

    Jeffrey Hayes

    Program Director, Institute for Women's Policy Research

    Natalie Hengstebeck

    Postdoctoral Fellow, Scholars Strategy Network, Duke University

    Clare Huntington

    Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Fordham Law School

    Roberta Iversen

    Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Social Policy program, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice

    Arielle Kuperberg

    Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

    Tama Leventhal

    Associate Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University

    Ricci Levy

    President and CEO, Woodhull Freedom Foundation

    Joan Maya Mazelis

    Associate Professor, Rutgers University-Camden

    Kelly Musick

    Professor and Interim Department Chair of Policy Analysis and Management, Director of the Cornell Population Center, Cornell University

    Laura Napolitano

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University - Camden

    Joanna Pepin

    NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin

    Maureen Perry-Jenkins

    Professor of Psychology & Director of Center for Research on Families, University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Allison Pugh

    Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia

    Jennifer Randles

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University-Fresno

    Lee Roper-Batker

    President and CEO, Community Foundations

    Pamela J. Smock

    Professor, Department of Sociology & Population Studies Center, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

    David Trimble

    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

    Reeve Vanneman

    Professor, University of Maryland

    Justin Wolfers

    Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan

    Nicholas Wolfinger

    Professor of Family & Consumer Studies and Adjunct Professor of Sociology, University of Utah

    Colleen Wynn

    Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Indianapolis

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