Author: Natasha Fletcher

…is the name of the course we teach our undergrad and grad students. What makes this course special is that it is a Learning Abroad course where students in addition to meeting in the classroom take a trip to Germany during Spring break. In Germany, we check out Berlin, Hamburg, and Köln with a keen eye on neighborhoods that have experienced physical and/or social change over the past several years. We also look at Street Art and Graffiti, particularly as expressions of social movements. The streets of these cities become our classroom, our live lab. We meet with activists, university professors, professionals, and other natives to collect multiple perspectives on the topics of our study.

 

Paul Jargowsky, 2016-2017 CASBS Fellow, Stanford University, enjoyed meeting Associate Justice of SCOTUS Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Stanford this week

New Report by KEITH WARDRIP, FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA, STUART ANDREASON, FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA, AND MELS DE ZEEUW, FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA*

Research has shown that the level of education requested in online job advertisements varies across metro areas, even for the same occupation. In this paper, we focus on four middle-skills occupations and investigate whether the observed variation can be fully explained by the characteristics of the jobs themselves. Even after controlling for the characteristics of the online job advertisements, we find that that employers’ preferences for a bachelor’s degree are higher where recent college graduates are relatively more numerous, where wages are higher, in larger metro areas, and in the Northeast.

Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor by Joan Maya Mazelis
304 pages. ISBN: 9781479870080

Surviving Poverty carefully examines the experiences of people living below the poverty level, looking in particular at the tension between social isolation and social ties among the poor. Joan Maya Mazelis draws on in-depth interviews with poor people in Philadelphia to explore how they survive and the benefits they gain by being connected to one another. Half of the study participants are members of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union, a distinctive organization that brings poor people together in the struggle to survive. The mutually supportive relationships the members create, which last for years, even decades, contrast dramatically with the experiences of participants without such affiliation.            

Dr. Mazelis will be giving a CURE seminar to discuss her book on Friday, February 3 at 12:15pm. The event will take place in the 3rd Floor Faculty Lounge in Armitage Hall.

Download the view the full Spring 2017 CURE Seminar Series schedule here (pdf).

 

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Please join us for this event (co-sponsored by CURE) on Friday at Princeton