Both the US and China have powerful economies and growing household wealth. But along with economic growth both countries have experienced significant increases in inequality. This includes inequality in income and wealth, but also unequal access to services, supports, and opportunity, including in education, employment, housing, representation, and influence. In the US, inequality is significantly tied to issues of race, with people of color (Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans in particular) more likely to be poor, living in substandard housing and under-resourced neighborhoods, with limited access to quality education and economic opportunity, and disproportionately represented in the criminal justice and child welfare systems. In China, there is significant inequality between rural and urban areas, and rural migrants in urban areas are often excluded from access to services and support by virtue of their household registration. This panel will explore different dimensions of inequality in each country and some of the policy and practice responses being embraced in each.
Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Associate Faculty Member, Department of Sociology
Associate, Population Research Center
Fellow, Center for Health Administration Studies
Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture; Katz Center for Mexican Studies; Center for Latin American Studies
The University of Chicago
Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
The University of Chicago
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences
Programme Leader, Masters of Arts in Social Policy and Social Development
Deputy Chair, Department Research Committee, Department of Applied Social Sciences
Coordinator, Winter Institute, UChicago-PolyU-PekingU Tripartite Collaboration
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Director, Social Work Research Institute, School of Ethnology and Sociology
Yunnan University
Associate Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
Faculty Affiliate, Center for Human Potential and Public Policy
Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
The University of Chicago
Faculty Affiliate, Lab for Economic Opportunities
University of Notre Dame
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
University of Wisconsin
