News: Social Welfare Policy

Two students have been selected as finalists for a program that offers a foothold for a career in government. Two…

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…

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

Xuan Huo (left) with Professor Qin Gao (right) in the Columbia School of Social Work’s lobby I first met Qin…

Professor Qin Gao has contributed to a paper showing that, while some studies are linking welfare participation and levels of…

At the end of my first month as a visiting scholar at the China Center for Social Policy, run by…

A poverty studies scholar uncovers racial bias in choices states make in the use and distribution of federal assistance benefits….

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

Children of China’s many internal migrants have a hard time adjusting. Two alumni and a current student have co-written a…