News: Social Policy

In honor of Inauguration week in the United States, we have launched a Special Report celebrating those members of the…

Assistant Professor Robert Paul Hartley, who joined the School of Social Work in 2019, is an applied microeconomist working in…

For Rev. Barber, the fight to end voter suppression is intimately bound up in the campaign to remake the moral…

Before the real Iowa caucuses took place, Hillis Elementary School in Des Moines held a Cookie Caucus, in which M&M…

An expanded poverty tracking survey will now look at early childhood poverty and the experiences of Asian-American New Yorkers. What’s…

Associate Professor Heidi Allen joined the School of Social Work faculty in 2012, after working as a research scientist on…

In a new study, Professor Qin Gao and her colleague found that for rural participants in China’s social safety net…

Professor Jane Waldfogel and public health student Emma Liebman locate a missing piece in the U.S. social insurance system. Though…

The School of Social Work professor has seen some of the worst inequalities in American healthcare up close and is…

During a full day of events, the millennial mayor of Stockton, California, inspired all he met with his determination to…