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Heflin Discusses Teen Food Insecurity, Education on This Week in Sociological Perspective Podcast

March 7, 2022

Professor Colleen Heflin was interviewed on the This Week in Sociological Perspective podcast about her upcoming paper, "Exposure to Food Insecurity during Adolescence and Educational Attainment."

See related: Health Studies , Social Welfare, Poverty & Income Security , Education , Food Insecurity , Social Inequalities , Adolescents

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

In Memoriam: Charles Willie G’57, H’92, A Champion for Social Justice

January 18, 2022
The legacy of alumnus Charles Vert Willie G’57, H’92 will forever be tied to that of his friend Martin Luther King Jr., making Willie’s passing a week before MLK Day 2022 especially poignant. 

See related: In Memoriam , Inequality , Racial Inequality , Social Inequalities , Inclusion , Race & Ethnicity

Jackson Discusses Police Use of Tasers in Asbury Park Press

November 10, 2021
Jenn M. Jackson, assistant professor of political science, talks about the use of Tasers by law enforcement in the Asbury Park Press article, "Tasers, hailed as a way to avoid deadly police shootings, are seldom used in NJ."

See related: Crime and Violence , Racial Inequality , Social Inequalities , Race & Ethnicity

Jackson quoted in Vox article on police reform

April 27, 2021
Following the Derek Chauvin verdict, President Joe Biden called for changing policing by "acknowledging and confronting, head-on, systemic racism and the racial disparities that exist in policing and in our criminal justice system more broadly." One such idea is to abolish the police. Proponents think communities can work together to regulate themselves without "anti-Black, white supremacist institutions," like the American criminal justice system and policing—which got its start with slave patrols—according to Jenn Jackson, assistant professor of political science. Read more in the Vox article, "9 ideas to solve the broken institution of policing." 

See related: Crime and Violence , Racial Inequality , Social Inequalities , Population Studies , Race & Ethnicity , State and Local

Yinger quoted in Daily Beast article on diverse communities

April 5, 2021
According to U.S. Census data, there is a 30 percentage-point gap in homeownership between Blacks and whites—larger than it was in the 1960s, prior to when the Fair Housing Act was passed.

See related: Housing , Racial Inequality , Social Inequalities , Wage Inequality , Population Studies , Race & Ethnicity

Michelmore discusses the child tax credit on Marketplace

February 25, 2021
"The kids who don’t receive the full credit right now are predominantly kids who are lower income, many who are living in poverty, and many who are either Black or Latino," says Katherine Michelmore, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs. 

See related: Public Welfare , Income , Taxes , Spending , Public Health , COVID-19 , Child and Elder Care , State and Local , Inclusion , Social Inequalities , Wage Inequality

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

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