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The nature of well-being is one of the most enduring and elusive subjects of human inquiry. Well-...

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other national policies are designed to ensure the ...

The sweeping political and economic changes of the past decade--including the spread of democracy...

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The gap between the richest and poorest Americans has grown steadily over the last thirty years, ...

Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, esp...

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As the world economy becomes increasingly integrated, companies can shift production to wherever ...

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Harriet Presser shows that nonstandard works schedules are both highly prevalent among American f...

Focusing on issues of particular importance to black people, and confronting the rich variety and...

Scientific progress often begins with the difficult task of preparing informed, conclusive review...

While powerful gender inequalities remain in American society, women have made substantial gains ...

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The United States is an immigrant nation--nowhere is the truth of this statement more evident tha...

Thanks to advances in technology, medicine, Social Security, and Medicare, old age for many Ameri...

Life is unpredictable. Control over one's time is a crucial resource for managing that unpredicta...

As women moved into the formal labor force in large numbers over the last forty years, care work ...

Gender inequality in the workplace persists, even in nations with some of the most progressive la...

Won't You Be My Neighbor: Race, Class, and Residence in Los Angeles

American fathers are a highly diverse group, but the breadwinning, live-in, biological dad prevai...

The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s seemed to mark a historical turning point in advancing the...

Two generations ago, young men and women with only a high-school degree would have entered the pl...

Despite the vast expansion of global markets during the last half of the twentieth century, socia...

The children of immigrants account for the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population under e...

Judging Inequality

In 1978, determined to combat fraud, waste, and abuse in government programs, Congress overwhelmi...

The Price of Independence: The Economics of Early Adulthood

In 2012, the Pew Research Center issued a report that named Asian Americans as the 'highest-incom...

Leon Festinger's forty-year scrutiny of that 'curious animal, the modern human being' fundamental...

Barack Obama's historic 2008 campaign exposed many white Americans more than ever before to a bla...

The number of elderly and disabled adults who require assistance with day-to-day activities is ex...

Profiles how the dramatic growth in incarceration came about and the toll it is taking on the soc...

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After Prison: Navigating Adulthood in the Shadow of the Justice System

Today, roughly 70 percent of all visas for legal immigration are reserved for family members of p...

Destinies of the Disadvantaged: The Politics of Teenage Childbearing

National news reports periodically proclaim that American life is lonelier than ever, and new boo...

Americans think of suburbs as prosperous areas that are relatively free from poverty and unemploy...

Inequality in income, earnings, and wealth has risen dramatically in the United States over the p...

Perhaps the most alarming phenomenon in American cities has been the transformation of many neigh...

Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Dilemmas and Approaches

The Great Recession was the most disastrous economic upheaval in the U.S. since the Great Depress...

Thirty years of progress on civil rights and a new era of immigration to the United States have t...