Our sixth annual State of the Union issue of Pathways was issued in 2019, and findings were presented at our State of the Union conference. In this report, the country’s leading experts analyze how millennials were faring. Could they make it in the new gig economy? Were they facing higher rates of poverty than previous generations? Were the key race and gender gaps finally closing for them? Here's our promise: Many of the answers surprise. Read now.
State of the Union Conference 2019, Stanford University (June 6, 2019)
Racial and Gender Identities - Sasha Shen Johfre and Aliya Saperstein, Stanford University
Student Debt - Susan Dynarski, University of Michigan
Employment - Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown University
Criminal Justice - Bruce Western, Columbia University and Jessica Simes, Boston University
Education - Florencia Torche and Amy L. Johnson, Stanford University
Income and Earnings - Christine Percheski, Northwestern University
Social Mobility - Michael Hout, New York University
Occupational Segregation - Kim Weeden, Cornell University
Poverty and the Safety Net - Marybeth Mattingly, Stanford University; Christopher Wimer, Sophie Collyer and Luke Aylward, Columbia University
Housing - Darrick Hamilton, Ohio State University, and Christopher Famighetti, The New School
Social Networks - Mario L. Small and Maleah Fekete, Harvard University
Health - Mark Duggan and Jackie Li, Stanford University
Policy - Sheldon Danziger, Russell Sage Foundation
Hosted by the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford Center on Longevity, and Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences.
See also our past State of the Union on Poverty and Inequality reports from 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, and 2014.
