PSC In The News
Geronimus: Stress makes black women 7.5 years older in biological age than white counterparts
Frey rethinks trends in Millennial mass urganization
Shaefer on new UN report about America's failing safety net
Highlights
Seefeldt promoted to associate professor of social work, associate professor of public policy
Martha Bailey elected to the Board of Officers of the Society of Labor Economists
Charlie Brown elected to the Board of Officers of the Society of Labor Economists
More PSC brown bags, Fall 2018
Shaefer compares low-income Americans to populations in poorer nations
a PSC In The News reference, 2016
"Yet Another Conservative Argument About Poverty Appears To Be Wrong" - Huffington Post. 08/06/2016.
This piece looks at some conservatives' characterization of poor Americans as being "pretty well off by international standards." It cites new work by Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin who analyze this issue, looking at four indicators of wellbeing: life expectancy, infant mortality, risk of homicide and risk of incarceration. Shaefer and Edin say that, by these metrics, Americans at the bottom of the economic ladder experience conditions comparable to those of countries with a small fraction of the per-capita output of the US.