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What the Best Places in America Have in Common
And what they reveal about alleviating poverty across the country
Legacy Admissions Don’t Work the Way You Think They Do
Dr. Khan is a professor of sociology and American studies at Princeton who studies culture, inequality, gender and elites.
In new book, Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond urges individuals to commit to abolishing American poverty
In the prologue to his latest book, Matthew Desmond bluntly assesses who we are in the United States, “the richest country on earth, with more poverty than any other advanced democracy.”
Arun Hendi, an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs,
was recently awarded a $2.6 million grant over the next five years from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institute of Health.
The Government Gave Out Bad Loans. Students Deserve a Bailout.
At least 43 million Americans have student loan debt, ranging from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Until now, there’s been no hope of a…
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