We have identified 35 key issues that are fundamental to understanding the structure of poverty and inequality. We will soon be adding functionality to make it possible to search affiliates and media by key issues.

• Children: Effects of family origins, family structure, and family processes on opportunity
• Citizenship & Civil Rights: Rights and prerogatives of citizens and discrimination against non-citizens
• Conflict, War, & Instability: Relationship between poverty, inequality, and social conflict
• Consumption & Lifestyles: Differences across social groups in the consumption of goods and services
• Crime & the Legal System: Law as a source of inequality and as an instrument for reducing inequality
• Development Economics: Poverty and inequality in developing economies
• Disabilities: Disability as a cause and consequence of inequality
• Discrimination & Prejudice: Types of discrimination, trends in discrimination, causes of discrimination
• Education: Access to schooling and returns to schooling
• Elites: Elite cohesiveness, reproduction of elites, power of elites
• Environment: Unequal exposure to social and environmental threats
• Gender: Gender differences in education, occupation, income
• Globalization: Effects of globalization on income inequality and job displacement
• Health & Mental Health: Disparities in health and health care
• History of Inequality: Rise and fall of different types of inequality and inequality regimes
• Immigration: Discrimination against immigrants, assimilation of immigrants, immigrant policy
• Income & Wealth: Trends in and sources of income and wealth inequality
• Labor Markets: Trends in employment and unemployment and types of employment contracts
• Land, Housing, & Homelessness: Differential access to homeownership, causes and effects of homelessness
• Lifecourse, Family, & Demography: Age discrimination, poverty and aging, divorce and poverty
• Measurement & Methodology: Methods for monitoring trends in and sources of poverty and inequality
• Organizations: The effects of different types of personnel systems on inequality
• Philosophy: The ethics of poverty and inequality
• Policy: The effects of social policy on poverty and inequality
• Politics & Political Economy: The structure of the institutions governing inequality
• Poverty: Trends in poverty, policy and poverty, the experience of poverty
• Public Opinion & Attitudes: Attitudes about poverty and inequality
• Race & Ethnicity: Racial and ethnic differentials in education and income
• Sexual Orientation: Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation
• Social Class & Occupations: The changing structure of social classes and occupations
• Social Mobility: Rates of social mobility, causes and consequences of social mobility
• Social Networks: Finding jobs through social networks
• Theory: Theories about the structure and legitimacy of inequality
• Transportation: Disparities in transportation use and effects of such disparities on inequality
• Future of Inequality: The dynamics making for change and stability in inequality