It's a special moment in U.S. history in which income inequality has reached unprecedented levels, poverty remains extreme, and racial and gender inequalities are intransigent. Why is there so much inequality and poverty? How might they be reduced? Find out from the country's top scholars in America's course on poverty and inequality.
So what makes this course different?
David B. Grusky, Barbara Kimball Browning Professor in the Humanities & Sciences, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University, Director of the Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI), Director of the California Welfare Laboratory, coeditor of Pathways Magazine and the Social Inequality Series
Lindsay Owens, Economic Policy Advisor in the office of Senator Elizabeth Warren, the 2014-2015 American Sociological Association Congressional Fellow, and teacher of a course on domestic poverty and inequality at Georgetown University.
Catherine Sirois, doctoral student in Sociology at Stanford University, studying poverty and incarceration
Stephanie Garlow, Communications Manager at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality