Podcasts

SCSPI is proud to announce its new line of podcasts, hosted by Diantha Parker. The podcast series will feature discussions of cutting-edge research on poverty, inequality, and social policy coming out of our Collaboration for Poverty Research.

Podcast Episodes

Are Unplanned Pregnancies Always Unplanned?

• Diantha talks with NYU sociologist Paula England about how young women think about contraception when their economic future is uncertain
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Fertility and the Recession in Red and Blue

• Diantha talks with Duke sociologist S. Philip Morgan about how couples in red and blue states are reacting very differently to the recession
• Listen to the podcast below or right-click here to download
  

Learning from Recoveries Past

• Diantha talks with Berkeley sociologist Michael Hout about recovering from recessions, past and present
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Are Americans Getting Stingier?

• Diantha talks with Stanford political scientist Rob Reich about America's large decline in charitable giving. Find out whose giving has declined the most, which organizations have escaped this fate, and how some organizations have increased their fundraising in the recession
• Listen to the podcast below or right-click here to download
  

The Big Chill in Consumer Spending

• Diantha talks to Stanford economist Luigi Pistaferri about what's happened to Americans' spending habits in the Great Recession and its aftermath — and what this means for the future
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Disconnected Young Adults in the Great Recession

• Diantha talks to University of Wisconsin economist Tim Smeeding about one of the groups being hit hardest by the Great Recession — young, undereducated men — and what we can do to help reconnect them to the labor force
• Listen to the podcast below or right-click here to download
  

The Great Destruction of Household Wealth

• Diantha talks to NYU economist Edward Wolff about how much wealth we've lost in the Great Recession — and who's being hit the hardest
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Piecing Together the Puzzle of Executive Pay

• Diantha talks to Alex Edmans, Jesse Fried, and Robert Frank about just what is going on with skyrocketing executive pay in recent years — and what to do about it
• Erratum: at the 3:17 mark, Dick Fuld is mistakenly identified as the CEO of AIG; Dick Fuld was actually the CEO of Lehman Brothers
• Listen to the podcast below or right-click here to download
  

Refashioning Income Supports for Children in Poverty

• Diantha talks to Greg Duncan about new evidence suggesting a radically different approach to income support policies targeted at low-income families
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