Fatal police shootings (FPS), particularly of unarmed racial minorities, have received sustained political and media attention. Yet major questions of where and when they occur, and why they are so heavily racialized, remain unanswered. There are two significant limitations to scholarship on FPS. First, systematic, high-quality data are lacking. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has only recently instituted a National Use-of-Force data collection effort with data collection set to begin as of January 1, 2019.

Nearly 1.4 million immigrants from El Salvador now live in the U.S. About 200,000 of them are Temporary Protection Status (TPS) holders and 26,000 are Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) status beneficiaries. About 465,000 of the total are estimated to be unauthorized.

Inspired by the broken windows theory of crime, many cities adopted zero-tolerance policing that targets minor forms of disorderly behavior. In New York City, such policing has disproportionately affected minority youth. For undocumented and immigrant youth, many of whom are also black and Latino, these police encounters also pose the threat of deportation.

This qualitative interview study will examine the experiences of older immigrants with the social safety net and the implications for their wellbeing and for perceptions of inclusion and belonging in U.S. society. In 2015, Hispanics 65 years old and older made up eight percent of the U.S. elderly population. By 2050, they are expected to account for 19.8 percent of that age group. Little research on immigrant integration has focused on the growing number of older adults.

There is increasing interest in having data that recognize gender diversity by offering non-binary response options on surveys and official data collection. Much attention has focused on “third gender” or “third sex” categories that acknowledge the existence of transgender and intersex people. Several states, including California, now allow non-binary responses on birth certificates and documents such as driver’s licenses. However, simply adding new categories does not address the limitations of conventional approaches to measuring these concepts.

Union jobs provide livable wages and good benefits, including pensions, for those without four-year college degrees. But they have been declining for decades. Now that fewer workers have access to good-paying jobs and benefits, and public benefits are difficult to access, those with union ties may find themselves serving as a private safety net for needy relatives, sharing their resources across households and generations. How do workers balance providing help with satisfying their own economic needs?

Sociologist David Grusky and computer scientist Jure Leskovec will convene a workshop to launch data analysis for the Opportunity Study (OS), a project that combines qualitative, survey, administrative, and experimental approaches to study the lived experiences of people in poverty. OS is based on three premises: (1) that existing quantitative protocols for counting those in poverty tell us relatively little about the day-to-day experience of poverty; (2) that existing qualitative studies do not allow for systematic comparisons across different types

Approximately 70-80 percent of people in jail and prison and 30-50 percent of those on probation or parole have a mental health or substance use disorder, compared to about 10 percent of all adults.

Co-funded with the JPB Foundation

The "immigrant health paradox" reflects the fact that recent immigrants often have better health outcomes and lower mortality than the native-born, especially soon after arrival, once socioeconomic differences are taken into account. However, findings on other health outcomes are mixed and are contingent on specific health measures, age, race/ethnicity, country of origin and number of years since migration. What individual, social and environmental factors explain immigrants’ health outcomes.

The transition to adulthood between the ages of 18 and 25 is a critical stage for acquiring human capital and setting one’s economic trajectory. Reaching the milestones for a successful transition to adulthood—obtaining stable employment, completing education, and establishing financial independence—has been more elusive for recent birth cohorts, particularly for young adults of color. Public policy expert Christina Gibson-Davis notes that racial and ethnic disparities in parental wealth are an understudied source of inequality in young adulthood outcomes.