Yu-Ling Chang

TL;DR: The authors analyzed how race, class and place interact to predict high school graduation rates in a national sample of schools and students and found that a singular focus on race, classes, or locale is insufficient to explain high-school graduation rates, and a more contextualized focus on the interactions between multiple determinants of inequality can yield a more nuanced understanding of the indicators driving educational inequalities.

TL;DR: State Social Safety Net Programs and the Great Recession: The First Line of Defense and the Last Resort for the Economically Disadvantaged as discussed by the authors, discusses the role of state social safety net programs.

TL;DR: Chang et al. as discussed by the authors examined the unequal social protection under the American UI system during and after the Great Recession and identified three distinct UI approaches, i.e., limited social protection, unbalanced social protection and balanced social protection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the bifurcated, decentralized structure of the U.S. social welfare system contributed to uneven policy responses across programs and states, and suggest that politically and socially disadvantaged poor families were doubly hurt by the economic shock and the least responsive, uncoordinated state social safety nets.

TL;DR: This paper examined intersecting structural inequalities embedded in county welfare-to-work (WTW) service delivery in C...Drawing from Critical Race Theory (CRT), and a structural intersectionality framework, they examined intersected structural inequalities in WTW service delivery.