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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.

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

Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Economic Inequality / Marriage & Divorce / TANF & Public Assistance

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.

Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Economic Inequality / TANF & Public Assistance

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

Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Economic Inequality / Marriage & Divorce / TANF & Public Assistance

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?

Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Gender & Sexuality / Labor & Workforce / Race, Ethnicity & Culture / Work & Family

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.

Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Gender & Sexuality / Race, Ethnicity & Culture

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 […]

Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality

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 […]

Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality

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.

Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality

The Long-Range Impact of the Recession on Families

Posted on April 16, 2010 in Brief Reports

Experts: Stephanie Coontz

By Valerie Adrian Research Intern Council on Contemporary Families Stephanie Coontz, M.A. Co-Chair and Director of Research and Public Education Council on Contemporary Families The economy is now out of free fall, but the impact of recent economic losses on families will continue for many years to come. An overview of the economic, unemployment […]

Topics of Expertise: Aging / Economic Inequality / Transition - Adolescents to Adulthood

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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