Joseph van der Naald

This paper was published as a part of the @RussellSageFdn Journal's double-issue revisiting the findings of Edin and Lein’s book Making Ends Meet after three decades: rsfjournal.org/content/12/1 and rsfjournal.org/content/12/2

Our findings add to the growing body evidence that policy decentralization and the perpetuation of racial inequality are inextricable. To paraphrase Aaron Wildavsky, federalism produces inequality.

New article in RSF! How much progress has been made on single-mother poverty since welfare reform? Sarah K. Bruch, Janet Gornick, and I document both real improvements and enduring racial disparities. rsfjournal.org/content/12/1/67

I miss you deeply, my friend. I feel so fortunate for our time together, but I still feel like there's a million things I want to ask you. Thank you everything you did for me, for our movements, and for all the people that crossed your path. Rest in Power.

Walking to Court Sq. station that night, we talked about books we were reading and preparations for an upcoming presentation in Minneapolis. I shook his hand before we parted ways (he was headed to Manhattan, me to Brooklyn) and I innocuously said 'see you later.'

It's been nearly two weeks since we lost Bill Herbert @HigherEd_CB and my shock has yet to really fade. hunter.cuny.edu/news/hunter-la…