In 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century
and ended with the largest mass closure of public schools in US history. On one side, a …

According to the American dream, hard work and a good education can lift people from
poverty to success in the" land of opportunity." The unskilled immigrants who came to the …

Serendipity, curiosity, and lived experience shaped my career as a social demographer and
my interests in social policy. I transitioned from the humanities to sociology and demography …

The soaring lock-up rate has produced a corresponding boom in prison construction. In
California, where spending on prisons exceed outlays for higher education, passage of the …

Objectives. This study examines which of five neighborhood conditions help account for
racial differences in social networks. Methods. The data set is the Urban Poverty and Family …

In modern states, John Lie argues, ideas of race, ethnicity, and nationality can be subsumed
under the rubric of" peoplehood." He argues indeed, that the modern state has created the …

Recent studies suggest the importance of examining cumulative risk or advantage as
potential predictors of health over the life course. Researchers investigating the cumulative …

Abstract In June 2006, the US Supreme Court agreed to review two related cases originating
from school districts in Louisville, Kentucky and Seattle, Washington that involved voluntarily …

Poverty levels among all children in the United States have tended to fluctuate in the past 30
years. However, among the children of immigrants, child poverty increased steadily and …

Regional cultures, far from atrophying in the face of national and global cultural circuits, are
both enduring and reproducing themselves. This is not just due to locals holding fast to their …