Speaker: Kathy Edin

Today, Americans are more economically segregated than ever before, limiting social contact between the affluent and the poor. Even among America's poor, social policy over the last quarter century has bifurcated fortunes. Changes in the economy have increased perilous work, while rising rents have increased the proportion of families who are homeless and precariously housed. This lecture will blend statistics with rich, ethnographic narratives to build a national portrait of widening inequality, its causes, and potential consequences for the next generation. Importantly, it will also focus on solutions.