The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce that two recipients of Presidential Authority Awards will be in residence at the Foundation this year.

Robert Kuttner will be in residence from September 15, 2015 to January 31, 2016. He is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect magazine and visiting professor of social policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School. He was a founder of the Economic Policy Institute and serves on its board and executive committee. Kuttner is author of ten books, including the 2008 New York Times bestseller, Obama's Challenge: American's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative Presidency. He is a two-time winner of the Sidney Hillman Journalism Award, the John Hancock Award for Financial Writing, the Jack London Award for Labor Writing, and the Paul Hoffman Award of the United Nations Development Program for his lifetime work on economic efficiency and social justice.

During his time in residence at the Foundation, Kuttner will work on a book that assesses how globalization has complicated the project of managing capitalism and even affected democracy itself. He will investigate the extent to which globalization, technology, cultural shifts, and domestic policies have contributed to growing wealth and income inequality in the U.S. and other countries.

Steven Greenhouse will be in residence from September 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. He is a labor and workplace reporter, formerly for the New York Times (1995 to 2014). He has covered topics including poverty among the nation’s farm workers, labor’s role in politics, the shortcomings of New York State's workers compensation system and the battles to roll back collective bargaining rights for public employees. Greenhouse is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1973), the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1975) and the New York University School of Law (1982). He is the author of The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker (2008).

At the Foundation, Greenhouse will complete a book on the future of the American worker. He will explore the decline of labor unions and the growth of alternative, non-union worker advocacy groups, and evaluate policies that might improve the labor market outcome of workers.