Executive Compensation: What Should We Do?

Introduction: Chris Wimer

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

Refashioning Income Supports for Children in Poverty

Diantha Parker talks with University of Arizona sociologist Lane Kenworthy and the Pew Charitable Trust's Paul Taylor about the Occupy Wall Street movement, and what research on recessions and public opinion spell for its future.

Will the Occupy Movement Have Legs?

Diantha Parker talks with UC Davis economist Hilary Hoynes about how the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) can help to reduce poverty...permanently.

The Lasting Impacts of SNAP and EITC

Diantha Parker talks with Indivar Dutta-Gupta of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities about how changes to safety net programs could affect low and middle income Americans.

Changes to Federal Aid Programs

Diantha Parker talks with 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.

Piecing Together the Puzzle of Executive Pay

Diantha Parker 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

The Big Chill in Consumer Spending

Diantha Parker talks with NYU sociologist Paula England about how young women think about contraception when their economic future is uncertain.

Are Unplanned Pregnancies Always Unplanned?

Diantha Parker talks with Duke sociologist S. Philip Morgan about how couples in red and blue states are reacting very differently to the recession.

Fertility and the Recession in Red and Blue

Diantha Parker talks with Berkeley sociologist Michael Hout about recovering from recessions, past and present.

Learning from Recoveries Past

CPI Director David Grusky talks with KQED about income immobility, growing inequality, and what can be done to curb this downward trend.

Kids in U.S. Far Less Likely to Earn More than Parents

Past, Present, and Future of Welfare

Among the biggest dangers associated with rising economic inequality is the possible emergence of a self-reinforcing cycle running through political channels. The concentration of economic resources could generate increased political inequality, which in turn might lead to government policies that perpetuate or further increase economic inequality. With notable exceptions, most political scientists have expressed skepticism about any such tight linkage, and they have backed up that skepticism with thoughtful empirical work. In this talk, UC-Berkeley professor Paul Pierson briefly outlines the rationale for their skepticism before suggesting why it is mostly mistaken. The optimism of many political scientists regarding the durability of political pluralism is grounded in an excessively narrow understanding of how economic resources generate political influence. Once the assumptions that justify that narrow take are exposed, there is reason to fear a much greater impact of economic inequality on American governance, and ample reason to worry that politics is now a major channel for the self-perpetuation of economic elites.

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Building Oligarchy: Are There Links Between Economic and Political Inequality in the United States?

Family instability and complexity have grown dramatically in the United States in recent decades, trends that are concentrated among the most disadvantaged of our citizens. Child support is critical but our policies are ill-equipped to handle the reality of today's families. Drawing on more than 400 in-depth interviews with low-income noncustodial fathers, Princeton University professor Kathryn Edin argues that child support is the key institution to insuring resources flow from the noncustodial parent to the child. Child support must deliver as many paternal resources — both material and socioemotional — to children as possible through strengthening co-parenting relationships and father-child bonds.

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Child Support in a Complex-Family Society

California has the fifth largest economy in the world and an unemployment rate near 4%, yet 40% of Californians living at or near the poverty level. CPI director David Grusky, Sara Kimberlin, and Caroline Danielson talk with KALW about poverty in California.

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