Social/Family Policy

Janet Gornick explains how proposed universal child care and other social benefit programs would help workers in the United States.

In this video, Kathryn Edin explains her work with the next generation of working-class men.

S.K. Bruch, M.K. Meyers, and J.C. Gornick. Social Service Review. vol. 92, no. 1. pp. 3-35. 2018.

J.C. Gornick. In The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families: Resources, Employment and Policies to Improve Wellbeing. R. Nieuwenhuis and L. Maldonado (eds). pp. 437-448. Bristol: Policy Press. 2018.

In this video, The New York Times' Margot Sanger-Katz hosts a panel of experts with diverse points of view on healthcare policy.

Watch a panel of leading thinkers and analysts discuss what is likely to happen in the next four years, provide insights into the reforms that they would like to see, and explain why these programs matter.

In this video, Heather Boushey and Janet Gornick discuss why resolving work-life conflicts is as vital for individuals and families as it is for our country’s productivity.

In this video, leading thinkers grapple with the major issues surrounding women’s rights and gender equality.

In this video, Angus Deaton traces the dramatic increase in human prosperity over the past 250 years as well as the widening gap between the poor and sick, and the rich and well.

B. Bradbury, M. Corak, J. Waldfogel, and E. Washbrook. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. 2015.