Spring 2018 Issue of Homo Politicus Available!

Spring 2018 Issue of Homo Politicus Available!

The Spring 2018 issue of the department newsletter, Homo Politicus, is now available! Check out this issue’s special feature in honor of Frances Fox Piven….

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'Laziness isn’t why people are poor. And iPhones aren’t why they lack health care': Stephen Pimpare

‘Laziness isn’t why people are poor. And iPhones aren’t why they lack health care’: Stephen Pimpare

Dr. Stephen Pimpare (2002 PhD Graduate in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center) is the author of “A People’s History of Poverty in America” and the forthcoming “Ghettos,…

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Ph.D. Student Joyce Rivera and The War on Drugs

Ph.D. Student Joyce Rivera and The War on Drugs

“I don’t recall a time when the drug war did not affect my life. The punishments my father, brother and sister experienced–arrest, incarceration and HIV/AIDS–for…

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Unsettled Americans - Metropolitan Context & Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration

Unsettled Americans – Metropolitan Context & Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration

John Mollenkopf and Manuel Pastor are the editors of Unsettled Americans: Metropolitan Context and Civic Leadership for Immigrant Integration (Cornell University Press, 2016). Mollenkopf is…

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Millenials’ Economic Prospects Revealed Through LIS Data

Millenials’ Economic Prospects Revealed Through LIS Data

This week The Guardian published the first story of an in-depth series about the economic prospects of Millennials, based on exclusive data from the Luxembourg…

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Professor Gornick to Moderate "Inequality in NYC and Beyond" with Mayor Bill de Blasio and Paul Krugman

Professor Gornick to Moderate “Inequality in NYC and Beyond” with Mayor Bill de Blasio and Paul Krugman

Professor Gornick moderated a debate on social and economic inequality between New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Nobel Prize-winning economist and distinguished professor of economics…

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Bloomberg Radio: Janet Gornick on the History & Purpose of LIS

Bloomberg Radio: Janet Gornick on the History & Purpose of LIS

Hosts Kathleen Hays and Pimm Fox of “Taking Stock” (Bloomberg Radio talk with Janet Gornick on the history and purpose of LIS. This podcast is…

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