Special Initiatives

The Russell Sage Foundation currently provides support to scholars at other institutions to pursue research projects that advance the Foundation’s objectives in five main research areas: the Future of Work, Immigration, Cultural Contact, Social Inequality, and Behavioral Economics. In addition to the activities sponsored under our main programs, the Foundation also supports a range of special initiatives focused on other issues of current importance. For more detailed information on each of these programs, please choose your area of interest below.

Reaching for a New Deal: President Obamas Agenda and the Dynamics of U.S. Politics

Employing a rich variety of data sources, a working group of nine leading scholars has analyzed and tracked the accomplishments, limits, and political dramas of the first two years of Barack Obama’s presidency during the 111th Congress.
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The Future of Social Science Data Collection

With support from the Russell Sage Foundation, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) will organize a panel to answer important questions about the causes and consequences of declining survey response and determine the most cost-effective ways to improve response rates and the quality of survey data.
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The Social and Economic Effects of the Great Recession

Originally launched in December 2010, the Russell Sage Foundation’s initiative assessing the effects of the Great Recession on the economic, political and social life of the country is now closed. The Foundation made thirty project awards in several funding rounds in 2011 and early 2012. Descriptions of those projects and awards can be found here.
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U.S. 2010

For sixty years, the Russell Sage Foundation has produced authoritative research on trends and changes in U.S. society using information from the decennial census. U.S. 2010: America After the First Decade of the New Century continues this tradition by reporting on key social and economic trends during the previous decade. Between 2000 and 2010, the United States experienced dramatic political, social, and economic changes and events.
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Special Initiatives

Reaching for a New Deal: President Obamas Agenda and the Dynamics of U.S. Politics

The Future of Social Science Data Collection

The Social and Economic Effects of the Great Recession

U.S. 2010

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