In a letter to The Wall Street Journal, Ivanka Trump defended the Trump administration’s proposed family leave program, stating that it is not an “entitlement” program, but an “investment” in working families. In a new opinion piece for CNN, CCF Director of Research Stephanie Coontz takes a look at Ivanka Trump’s claims and concludes that, […]
Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Family Caregiving (for Adults, Children, and Disabilities) / TANF & Public AssistanceThe Frontlines of Welfare Reform: Why Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Programs Succeed or Fail A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Jennifer Randles, Assistant Professor of Sociology, California State University, Fresno “Marriage is the foundation of a successful society.” “Promotion of responsible fatherhood and motherhood is integral to successful child rearing […]
Topics of Expertise: Marriage & Divorce / Parenthood: Motherhood/Fatherhood / TANF & Public AssistanceA 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 AssistanceWelfare Reform at 20. How’s that working? Overview of the Welfare Reform at 20 Online Symposium prepared for Council on Contemporary Families by symposium editor Virginia Rutter, Professor of Sociology, Framingham State University. CCF’s Online Symposium examines the origins, progress, and future of welfare reform. August 22, 2016. Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton proposed […]
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / TANF & Public Assistance / Work & FamilyWelfare Reform’s 20th Anniversary A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Stephanie Coontz, Professor of History and Family Studies, The Evergreen State College August 22, 2016 Twenty years ago this month, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which repealed the cash assistance program, Aid to […]
Topics of Expertise: History & Trends on Gender, Marriage & Family Life / TANF & Public AssistanceWelfare Reform Attitudes and Single Mothers’ Employment after 20 Years A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Philip Cohen, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland. August 22, 2016 The welfare reform bill that emerged in 1996, after a back-and-forth struggle between President Bill Clinton and the Congress (both houses of which […]
Topics of Expertise: TANF & Public Assistance / Work & FamilyA briefing paper prepared for Council on Contemporary Families by Bradley Hardy, Assistant Professor of Public Administration and Policy, American University. August 22, 2016 On the 20th anniversary of Welfare Reform, it is worthwhile considering the economic conditions facing today’s low-income individuals and families, and the welfare programs they can utilize for assistance. […]
Topics of Expertise: TANF & Public AssistanceA briefing paper prepared for Council on Contemporary Families by Alan Barber, Director of Domestic Policy, Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Virginia Rutter, Professor of Sociology, Framingham State University. August 22, 2016 Welfare reform hits 20 this month. The Center for Economic and Policy Research has done much work examining how full employment […]
Topics of Expertise: Labor and Workforce / TANF & Public Assistance / Work & Family
CCF Director Jennifer Glass‘s briefing on the parental happiness gap in 22 countries received wide coverage in the news and social media. The report identifies policies that have contributed to a parental happiness deficit in the US. Outlets covering the report included, among others: the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Time Magazine, NYMag, Fusion, […]
Topics of Expertise: Public Policy
What Helps Women Entrepreneurs Flourish? A briefing paper prepared for the Council on Contemporary Families by Sarah Thébaud, University of California at Santa Barbara November 5, 2015 Most Americans agree that entrepreneurship is an important component of economic growth and job creation. Small businesses accounted for two million new jobs last year, and innovative start-ups […]
Topics of Expertise: Labor and Workforce / Work & Family
Professor of Economics, School of Public Policy UMass Amherst; Williams Institute UCLA
Professor of Sociology at Florida State University
Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Research Assistant Professor of Psychology, Associate Director of the Center for Children and Families, University of Notre Dame
Assistant Professor of Family, Health, and Policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah
Policy Director, Co-Director of the Childhood Studies Program at the Schubert Center for Child Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
Director of Research and Public Education, Council on Contemporary Families; Professor, The Evergreen State College
Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware
Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Kennedy School, Harvard University
Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
Associate Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research
Professor of Sociology and Research Associate in the Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Director of Family Policy Center for American Progress
PhD Professor and Co-Chair of the College of Environmental Science, University of Missouri
Associate Professor at Duke University
Professor of Sociology & Faculty Fellow, Honors College, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chief Operating Officer and Executive VP, R&D Kashiv Pharma, LLC
Associate Professor and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Social Policy program, University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice
Associate Professor, Loyola Marymount University
Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Sociologist & Co-Director of the Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts & ISPCAN
Associate Professor, Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University
Assistant Professor, Kansas State University
Professor of Law & Paul M. Siskind Research Scholar at Boston University School of Law
Center Director, Urban Institute, Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population
Assistant Adjunct Professor, University of California San Fransisco & Visiting Scholar at Institute for the Study of Societal Issues, UC Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Texas at Austin
Therapist & Author
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication, Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Professor of Medical Social Sciences Director, Center on Media and Human Development School of Communication Chair, Department of Communication Studies
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
