America’s Inequality
Earlier this week, the U.S. Census Bureau released the country’s poverty and inequality numbers for 2013. Although the poverty rate showed a decline from 15 percent in 2012 to 14.5 percent in… 
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Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab Announces Winners of Fourth Annual Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize for Excellence in Urban Public Health
Winners Focusing on Challenges for At-Risk Children, LGBT Community New York, NY (June 3, 2014) – Hunter College President Jennifer J. Raab today announced the winners of the prestigious Joan…
Tax Structure and Revenue Instability: The Great Recession and the States – Chernick/Reimers
Howard Chernick and Cordelia Reimers publish “Tax Structure and Revenue Instability: The Great Recession and the States” – IZA Journal of Labor Policy, forthcoming, 2014 (with Jennifer Tennant). Abstract: “Though the great recession has had the…
New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape
Immigration is dramatically changing major cities throughout the world. Nowhere is this more so than in New York City and Amsterdam, which, after decades of large-scale immigration, now have populations…
Oza: ‘Muslim fundamentalism’ and human rights in an age of terror and empire
In the name of fighting terrorism, countries have been invaded; wars have been waged; people have been detained, rendered and tortured; and campaigns for “hearts and minds” have been unleashed….
Peacebuilding: From Concept to Commission
The emergence of The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2005 was the culmination of a long and contentious process. In this work Rob Jenkins provides a concise introduction that…
Paper on cigarette tax avoidance in NYC
Using data about tax stamps obtained from random samples of littered packs of cigarettes, collected once before and three times after a June 2008 NYS tax increase, we find that…
New Book on Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
A new book on urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services was published this fall, 2013, by Springer. This is the first comprehensive cross scale examination of the complex relationships between these…
Nancy Foner co-organizes conference – Fear and Anxiety over National Identity: Contrasting North American and European Experiences and Public Debates on Immigrant and Second Generation Integration.
In December 2011, Nancy Foner organized an international conference at the Russell Sage Foundation, with French demographer Patrick Simon (French National Institute for the Study of Demography), “Fear and Anxiety…
Dr. Joanne Mariner and Dr. Terry Babcock-Lumish Join Roosevelt House to Head Hunter’s New Programs in Human Rights and in Public Policy
Roosevelt House is pleased to announce the addition of two fellows at the Institute starting Spring 2011. Dr. Terry Babco... Read more
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