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Landes Weighs in on CDC Recognizing People with IDD Are at Higher Risk of COVID in Disability Scoop

March 7, 2022

Scott Landes, associate professor of sociology, was quoted in the Disability Scoop article, "CDC Adds IDD To List Of Conditions At Increased Risk From COVID-19."

See related: Inequalities , Health, Aging & Life Course, Disability , COVID-19

Drake Addresses Long-Standing Problems of Educational Inequality in New Book

February 25, 2022

In his new book, "Academic Apartheid: Race and the Criminalization of Failure in an American Suburb" (University of California Press, 2022), Sean J. Drake looks at how race and class intersect, contributing to educational inequality and modern school segregation. 

See related: Social Policy (Aging, Education, Health, Welfare) , Education , Racial Inequality , Race & Ethnicity , Social Inequalities , Immigration , Education and Family , Inequalities

Grant Funds Syracuse Housing Research

December 17, 2021
Gretchen Purser, associate professor of sociology at the Maxwell School, is part of a three-member team that has received a $350,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate how building local power among tenants can enhance community health and well-being.

See related: Housing , Social Welfare, Poverty & Income Security , Inequalities , Grant Awards , State and Local

Heflin Quoted in Associated Press Article on Food Insecurity Among Military Families

November 15, 2021
Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs, is quoted in the Associated Press article, "Thousands of military families struggle with food insecurity."

See related: Food Insecurity , Public Health , Veterans , Population Studies , Inequalities , Social Welfare, Poverty & Income Security

Purser Discusses Rent Relief, Eviction Moratorium

October 4, 2021
Gretchen Purser, associate professor of sociology, appeared on WCNY's most recent episode of CONNECT NY, "The State of Homeownership."

See related: Inequalities , Population and Place , Social Welfare, Poverty & Income Security , Housing

Landes quoted in CTV story on COVID-19 vaccine, people with disabilities

February 23, 2021
Scott Landes, associate professor of sociology, was quoted in the CTV article, "Advocates worry as most disabled people left off vaccine priority list." 

See related: Public Health , Wellbeing , Social Inequalities , Inclusion , Policy , Population Studies , Inequalities , Health, Aging & Life Course, Disability , Population and Place

Harrington Meyer paper on Social Security reform published in RSF Journal of Social Sciences

March 9, 2018

See related: Inequalities , Power, Capital and Politics

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