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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.

Anna Kirkland appointed the Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan

Media Appearances:

-- PBS NewsHour examines Viktor Orbán’s attraction to the American Right:  

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…

Garip named to Census Bureau committee on racial, ethnic and other populations

Sociologist Filiz Garip was nominated and selected for the Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations.

What Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis Are Learning About the Politics of Retribution

Dr. Scheppele, a professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University, lived and worked in Hungary for many years as a researcher at the Hungarian Constitutional Court.

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