The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality has introduced a new online course intended to explore the rise of income inequality, extreme poverty, and persistent racial and gender disparities in the U.S. The course, which is free and open to the public and bbegins on October 11, 2016, will be led by David Grusky, the director of the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality and an RSF grantee. Leading social scientists, including RSF president Sheldon Danziger and a number of other RSF authors and grantees, will also deliver video lectures for the course.

Danziger’s segment, which is now available to watch in full above, discusses the lasting effects of the social programs created and expanded under Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration as part of the War on Poverty. Danziger is co-editor with Martha J. Bailey of the 2013 RSF book Legacies of the War on Poverty.

Other scheduled speakers for the course include RSF trustees Kathryn Edin and Lawrence Katz; Margaret Olivia Sage Scholar William Julius Wilson; RSF visiting scholar Cecilia Ridgeway; former visiting scholars Sean Reardon and Aliya Saperstein; RSF authors Bruce Western, Douglas Massey, Annette Lareau, Harry Holzer, Jacob Hacker, Paula England, and Becky Pettit; and RSF grantees Emmanuel Saez, Shamus Khan, Raj Chetty, Robert Sampson, Patrick Sharkey, Devah Pager, Tomas Jimenez, Richard Freeman, Alejandro Portes, and Michael Hout. Their videos will be released as the course proceeds.

Visit the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality website to learn more and register for the course.