公共和城市政策理学硕士-不平等与社会政策

1980年以后的新自由主义时代的特点是，美国的收入和财富不平等现象急剧增加，没有纽约市和其他大都市区那么大，更集中。教育质量，获得医疗保健，负担得起的住房，体面的食物和交通运输等方面的其他加剧的差距–都是收入和财富差距激增的原因和后果。随着较老的工业城市的衰落和Sunbelt城市的崛起，这些城市往往受到较少的监管和社会保护，城市和地区之间的不平等现象急剧加剧。劳动力市场是罪魁祸首，工人常常按性别，种族，民族和民族划分为城市工作结构的不同部分。
The post-1980 neoliberal era has been characterized by a spectacular increase in income and wealth inequality in the United States, nowhere as great and concentrated as in New York City and other large metropolitan areas. Other exacerbated disparities - in the quality of education, access to health care, affordable housing, decent food, and transportation - are both causes and consequences of the explosion in income and wealth disparities. With the decline of older industrial cities and the rise of Sunbelt cities that tend to be governed with far less regulation and social protections, inequalities have grown dramatically between cities and regions. The labor market is a chief culprit, with workers too often stratified by gender, race, ethnicity, and nativity into different parts of the urban job structure.<br> Courses in this area offer students the opportunity to concentrate their studies on courses that address these questions through a range of social policy lenses.