Webinars
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Black Reparations: Insights from the Social Sciences | Policy Takeaways from COVID-19 | Housing and Climate Change | Monetary Sanctions in the Criminal Legal System | Can Social Scientists Influence the Public Debate? | Social Science Summer Institute for Journalists | The Legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson | Revisiting Immigration in the United States | Cradle to Kindergarten | Resilience and Civic Engagement Among Latino Immigrants
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Black Reparations: Insights from the Social Sciences - June 17, 2024
A special online conversation to mark the publication of the new RSF journal issue on Black reparations, one of the most pressing and contentious policy proposals of our times. Issue editors William Darity, Jr. (Duke University) and Dania V. Francis (University of Massachusetts, Boston) discuss what social science research tells us about the history, the current state of the debate, and the feasibility of paying reparations in conversation with Jovan Scott Lewis (University of California, Berkeley), moderator.
Read more and download a free copy of the double issue.
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Columbia University Center on Poverty and Social Policy - September 21, 2023
On Thursday, September 21, RSF, together with Columbia University's Center on Poverty and Social Policy, and The Hamilton Project at Brookings, cohosted a webinar discussion on policy takeaways from the COVID-19 pandemic for reducing poverty and promoting economic well-being for all moving forward. Author Zachary Parolin (Bocconi University, Italy, and Columbia University) presented findings from his new RSF book, Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy Lessons from COVID-19, in a discussion moderated by Jason DeParle of the New York Times.
Poverty in the Pandemic provides the most complete account to date of the unique challenges that low-income households in the U.S. faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more and purchase a copy of the book.
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Institute for Research on Poverty: Housing and Climate Change - October 12, 2022
On Wednesday, October 12, 2022, the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a webinar on “Housing and Climate Change.” The webinar featured a live discussion with RSF author, former visiting scholar, and grantee Max Besbris (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and RSF author and grantee James Elliott (Rice University) along with Amy Chester (Rebuild by Design) and Ivis Garcia Zambrana (Texas A&M University). The presenters discussed how disasters in and around the United States and related recovery efforts can potentially worsen existing inequalities, the development of climate-resilient housing, and relocation policies designed to mitigate the financial and social costs of climate-related disasters.
Max Besbris is co-author of RSF book Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster.
James Elliott is co-author of RSF book Sites Unseen: Uncovering Hidden Hazards in American Cities.
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Monetary Sanctions in the Criminal Legal System - April 14, 2022
On Thursday, April 14, 2022, the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a webinar on “The Costs of Monetary Sanctions in the Criminal Legal System.” The webinar featured a live discussion with contributors to RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences double issue “State Monetary Sanctions and the Costs of the Criminal Legal System,” including journal issue co-editor Alexes Harris (University of Washington) and journal contributors Robert Stewart (University of Maryland), Kate O’Neill (University of Washington), Daniel Boches (University of Georgia), and Brittany Friedman (University of Southern California). The contributors presented findings from the special double issue, which focuses on how the system of state monetary sanctions operates and the consequences of monetary sanctions.
Read Volume 1 of "State Monetary Sanctions and the Costs of the Criminal Legal System."
Read Volume 2 of "State Monetary Sanctions and the Costs of the Criminal Legal System."
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Can Social Scientists Influence the Public Debate? A Discussion with David Leonhardt - April 6, 2022
On April 6, David Leonhardt, a senior writer at The New York Times and an RSF trustee, spoke about the ways that social scientists can engage with lay audiences and policymakers to contribute to public discussion on the important policy issues of our times. He discussed writing op-eds, using social media, and engaging with journalists, practitioners, and policy makers.
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RSF Social Science Summer Institute for Journalists - July 13 - 15, 2021
On July 13, 14, and 15, RSF held a free seminar series to brief journalists on pressing public policy issues and how to engage social science researchers to expand coverage and identify new sources who are experts in their fields. Each session paired journalists with leading social scientists and policymakers. The seminar's hosts and moderators were journalists and RSF trustees David Leonhardt (The New York Times) and Nicholas Lemann (Columbia Journalism School and The New Yorker).
Accurate Reporting and the COVID-19 Pandemic - July 13, 2021
Politicized discourse and the prevalence of misinformation prolonged the pandemic in the U.S. In this discussion, speakers Wafaa El-Sadr, University Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, Columbia University, and David Leonhardt, The New York Times, discussed how to incorporate social science and epidemiology into reporting, especially as the U.S. moves away from pandemic-related restrictions.
Race in America: How Social Science Informs Black Lives Matter - July 14, 2021
In this discussion, speakers Marc Morial, president, the National Urban League, and Rucker Johnson, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, discussed long-term and systemic social inequities and the social science evidence on persistent segregation and discrimination in the wake of the murder of George Floyd.
The Biden Administration's Domestic Policy Agenda: Expanding Your Source List - July 15, 2021
President Biden’s economic policy agenda features increased spending on infrastructure, jobs, and job quality, and the child tax credit. Speakers Cecilia Rouse, chair, White House Council of Economic Advisers; Jason Furman, former chair, White House Council of Economic Advisors and Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard University; and Michael Strain, Director of Economic Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute, discussed what social science has to say about these issues and how to engage social scientists as expert sources.
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Webinar Conference on “The Legacy of Plessy v. Ferguson after 125 Years” - May 18, 2021
On Tuesday, May 18, 2021, a virtual conference was held to mark the 125th anniversary of the the notorious Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson. The webinar discussions centered on findings from the recently published issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: “Plessy v. Ferguson and the Legacy of ‘Separate but Equal’ after 125 Years.” Issue editors john a. powell (University of California, Berkeley), Samuel L. Myers, Jr. (University of Minnesota), and Susan T. Gooden (Virginia Commonwealth University) led a panel of journal contributors and other expert commentators in a discussion of the enduring social, political, and economic effects of Plessy v. Ferguson.
The conference was presented by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota; the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University; and the Othering & Belonging Institute, University of California, Berkeley.
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RSF/Hauser/Carnegie Webinar: “Revisiting Immigration in the United States” - April 19, 2021
On Monday, April 19, 2021, RSF together with the Hauser Policy Impact Fund and the Carnegie Corporation of New York cosponsored a webinar on “Revisiting Immigration in the United States.” The webinar discussion centered on findings from two seminal reports on immigration from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: The Integration of Immigrants into American Society and The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration. RSF provided partial funding for the NAS report on immigrant integration. The webinar featured seven immigration and policy experts in discussion about how research can inform the debates on immigration policy, including RSF trustee Michael Jones-Correa (University of Pennsylvania), co-author of the recent RSF book Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement among Latino Immigrants; former RSF trustee Mary C. Waters (Harvard University), one of the editors of the report on immigrant integration; and RSF grantee, author, and former visiting scholar Douglas Massey (Princeton University).
Read the NAS report The Integration of Immigrants into American Society here.
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Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality - March 17, 2021
The Russell Sage Foundation and the School of Public Affairs at American University hosted a discussion featuring co-authors Taryn Morrissey (American University), Ajay Chaudry (New York University), and Christina Weiland (University of Michigan), joined by Miriam Calderon (Oregon’s Early Learning Division) and Melissa Boteach (National Women’s Law Center), to talk about the second edition of their RSF book Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality. The discussion was moderated by Ruth Marcus, Washington Post columnist and 2019 Sine Institute Fellow. U.S. Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA), Chair of the House Committee on Labor & Education, offered remarks before the discussion.
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Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement Among Latino Immigrants - October 15, 2020
Political scientists James A. McCann (Purdue University) and Michael Jones-Correa (University of Pennsylvania), discuss their RSF book, Holding Fast: Resilience and Civic Engagement Among Latino Immigrants. The conversation was moderated by independent journalist and NPR contributor Alexandra Starr and featured remarks from immigration scholar Janelle Wong (University of Maryland, College Park).