With education funding cut looming, ‘irreplaceable data on schools’ at risk
The real economic and social value of the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences research won’t show up in DOGE’s metrics.
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Inequality lies at the heart of current debates about opportunity and equity, implicating numerous contemporary policy issues. Public and scholarly interest in inequality has intensified, not merely because of historic increases in income and wealth disparity in the United States and other advanced industrial countries, but also because inequalities of race, ethnicity, gender, and social class are evolving in dramatic and complicated ways. Cornell University is a leading center of scholarship on inequality, drawing strength from its many departments and colleges.
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Spotlight on the Health Equity Track.
The Minor in Inequality Studies’ Health Equity Track, launched in Spring 2019, affords interested students the opportunity to explore the social causes and consequences of inequalities in life expectancy, health outcomes, health-promoting behaviors, and access to health care. As with the general Minor in Inequality Studies, the Health Equity Track is open to any student in any major, and offers excellent preparation for students who are interested in careers in medicine, public health, social science research, or public policy.
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The Minor in Inequality Studies, offered by Cornell University’s Center for the Study of Inequality, exposes students to scholarship on inequality through a breadth of approaches, methods, and topics while allowing them to tailor the program to their particular interests. The minor is open to students in all Cornell undergraduate colleges and can be completed in conjunction with almost any major by completing six required courses.
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The key to some nations’ public support for mental health care 
In a new book, Isabel Perera explains why after deinstitutionalization, some affluent democracies failed to provide adequate services for the severely mental ill while others expanded care.
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Cornell expert: Anti-trans executive order belies unfounded moral panic
Wednesday's executive order prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in female sports discriminates not only against transgender people, but also against women, says philosophy professor Kate Manne.
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Klarman Fellow to study consequences of the social safety net
Neil Cholli, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in economics, has received a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to study how inequality affects economic growth and well-being in the U.S.
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Nexus Scholars study climate change inequality and infant language learning
The program provides undergraduates with summer opportunities to conduct research with and be mentored by faculty from across the college.
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How girls fare when only a son will do
“Gender plays out in many different ways across the world...even when both spouses agree on wanting more sons than daughters, this isn’t consistently correlated with girls getting less education," said sociologist Vida Maralani.
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Growing rural-urban divide exists only among white Americans
Researchers have found that when it comes to politics, Black and Latino residents of rural America differ far less, if at all, from their urban counterparts than do non-Hispanic white residents.
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Peter Loewen named dean of Arts and Sciences
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
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