News: Social Welfare Policy
Two from CSSW Are Finalists for Presidential Management Fellowships
Two students have been selected as finalists for a program that offers a foothold for a career in government. Two…
3 Questions for…Assistant Professor Rob Hartley
Assistant Professor Robert Paul Hartley, who joined the School of Social Work in 2019, is an applied microeconomist working in…
Reverend Barber: Civil Rights, Voting, and the 2020 Election
For Rev. Barber, the fight to end voter suppression is intimately bound up in the campaign to remake the moral…
FACULTY Q&A: Heidi Allen
Associate Professor Heidi Allen joined the School of Social Work faculty in 2012, after working as a research scientist on…
My Year of Discovery at Columbia’s China Center for Social Policy
Xuan Huo (left) with Professor Qin Gao (right) in the Columbia School of Social Work’s lobby I first met Qin…
Welfare Participation and Youth Depression: Correlation or Causation?
Professor Qin Gao has contributed to a paper showing that, while some studies are linking welfare participation and levels of…
My Experience as a Visiting Scholar at the China Center for Social Policy
At the end of my first month as a visiting scholar at the China Center for Social Policy, run by…
New Study: Through Welfare, States Are Widening Black-White Child Poverty Gap
A poverty studies scholar uncovers racial bias in choices states make in the use and distribution of federal assistance benefits….
Michael Tubbs on Structural Violence, UBI, and the Dignity of Work
During a full day of events, the millennial mayor of Stockton, California, inspired all he met with his determination to…
Journal Article Addresses Unique Mental Health Needs of China’s Migrant Children
Children of China’s many internal migrants have a hard time adjusting. Two alumni and a current student have co-written a…