Scholars & Their Research

Lyons Family Faculty Scholar and Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Jobs and Workers, Unions & the Labor Movement

Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston
Expertise:
Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Women, Children & Families

Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Expertise:
Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Cities and Regions

Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, Race and Ethnicity, Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Housing, Women, Children & Families

Senior Economist, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Inequality & the Middle Class, Jobs and Workers, Housing

Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, Jobs and Workers, Social Security, Public Budgets and Taxes, Unemployment Insurance

Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Maine
Expertise:
Jobs and Workers, Aging Society, Civic Engagement, Women

Director, Oklahoma Policy Institute
Expertise:
Public Budgets and Taxes, Antipoverty Policy, Public Sector Reforms

Research Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs, Syracuse University, and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research
Expertise:
Health Care Reform, Public Budgets and Taxes

Professor of Social Work and Master of Social Work Coordinator at School of Social Work, University of Maine
Expertise:
Medicare & Medicaid, Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Aging Society, Women

Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, Medicare & Medicaid, Social Security, Public Budgets and Taxes, Media and Public Opinion, Civic Engagement

Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, Jobs and Workers, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy

PhD Candidate in Government and Social Policy, Harvard University
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, Public Budgets and Taxes, Media and Public Opinion, Policies in Other Nations

Professor of Public Policy, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Expertise:
Jobs and Workers, Family Policies, Social Movements, Women, Children & Families

H.J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy and Director, National Poverty Center, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Expertise:
Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Women

Professor of Political Science, Emory University
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Election 2012, Civic Engagement, Voters and Voter Participation

Director, Labor Market and Workforce Research, Jobs for the Future
Expertise:
Jobs and Workers, Adult Training Programs

Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley; Senior Fellow in International Studies, Watson Institute, Brown University
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, International Development

Distinguished Fellow, Economic Policy Institute
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Jobs and Workers

PhD Student in Political Science, Yale University
Expertise:
Public Budgets and Taxes, Antipoverty Policy, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy, Media and Public Opinion, Public Sector Reforms

Professor of Architecture and Dean of the College of Design, University of Minnesota
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Environment, Energy, Public Budgets and Taxes

Associate Professor of Health Policy, Yale University
Expertise:
K-12 Education, Public Budgets and Taxes

H.J. Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics, Johnson School of Management, Cornell University
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, Public Budgets and Taxes

Graduate Student, University of New Mexico
Expertise:
Jobs and Workers, Unions & the Labor Movement

Director, Bard MBA in Sustainability and Director, Bard Center for Environmental Policy, Bard College
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Environment, Energy

Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, Medicare & Medicaid, Health Care Reform, Social Security, Public Budgets and Taxes, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy

PhD Student in Government and Social Policy, and Fellow in Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Expertise:
Public Budgets and Taxes, Unemployment Insurance

Pamela C. Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy, College of William & Mary
Expertise:
Medicare & Medicaid, Social Security, Public Budgets and Taxes, Unemployment Insurance, Antipoverty Policy

Professor of Sociology, Political Science & Environmental Science Director, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Ohio State University
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Environment, International Development, Media and Public Opinion, Social Movements

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Southern Methodist University
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Science & Technology

Professor of Sociology and Political Science, University of Arizona
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Inequality & the Middle Class, Jobs and Workers, Public Budgets and Taxes, Antipoverty Policy, Media and Public Opinion

Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy, University of Minnesota
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Media and Public Opinion, Science & Technology, Public Sector Reforms

Professor of Sociology, University at Albany, State University of New York
Expertise:
U.S. Foreign Policy, Public Budgets and Taxes, Media and Public Opinion

Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, The University of Iowa, and Director of the Iowa Social Science Research Center
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Inequality & the Middle Class, Public Budgets and Taxes

Third Year Student, Yale Law School
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Environment, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy

Assistant Professor of History, University of Rhode Island
Expertise:
Environment, Jobs and Workers, Unions & the Labor Movement, Social Movements

Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Expertise:
Environment, International Development, Media and Public Opinion, Social Movements

Professor Emerita of Economics, University of Tennessee
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Public Budgets and Taxes

Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions, Department of Government, Cornell University
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, Health Care Reform, Social Security, Public Budgets and Taxes, Higher Education, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy

Professor of Sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, Jobs and Workers, Immigrants & Immigration Reform, Cities and Regions, Women

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, Medicare & Medicaid, Health Care Reform, Jobs and Workers, Public Budgets and Taxes, Children & Families

Professor of Human Resources and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Expertise:
Jobs and Workers, Adult Training Programs

PhD Student in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
Expertise:
Public Budgets and Taxes, Media and Public Opinion, State & Local Government

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Institute for Policy Research Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University
Expertise:
Health Care Reform, Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Women

Professorial Lecturer and Research Scholar, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, The George Washington University
Expertise:
Public Budgets and Taxes

John Gross Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, Public Budgets and Taxes, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy

Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow in the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, International Development, Public Budgets and Taxes

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Public Budgets and Taxes, Housing

Curator’s Teaching Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Expertise:
Election 2012, Jobs and Workers, Cities and Regions, Revitalizing U.S. Democracy

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Oklahoma
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Public Budgets and Taxes, State & Local Government

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
Expertise:
Inequality & the Middle Class, Race and Ethnicity, Jobs and Workers, Voters and Voter Participation

Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of New Mexico
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Jobs and Workers, Immigrants & Immigration Reform

Assistant Professor of Law and Regents’ Lecturer, University of New Mexico School of Law
Expertise:
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Jobs and Workers, Antipoverty Policy, Security & Intelligence, Religion

Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, and Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
Expertise:
Race and Ethnicity, Jobs and Workers, Immigrants & Immigration Reform

President, Growth & Justice
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, School Reform, Civic Engagement

Distinguished McKnight Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Expertise:
Criminal Justice, Jobs and Workers, Media and Public Opinion, Voters and Voter Participation

Professor of Political Science, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Environment, Pharmaceutical & Food Regulation

Associate Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Public Administration & Policy, University of Georgia
Expertise:
Jobs and Workers, Unemployment Insurance, Aging Society

Professor of Sociology and Director of the Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard University
Expertise:
Race and Ethnicity, Criminal Justice, Jobs and Workers

Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Chair, Department of Political Science; Director, Center for Policy Studies; and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University
Expertise:
Medicare & Medicaid, Health Care Reform, Social Security, Public Budgets and Taxes, Policies in Other Nations

Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
Expertise:
Economic Growth & Innovation, Jobs and Workers, Science & Technology

PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University
Expertise:
Public Budgets and Taxes, Social Movements