Project Title: For Richer or Poorer: The Politics of Redistribution in Bad Economic Times

Project Description: This project will examine the policy consequences of economic downturns, such as the current fiscal crisis stemming from the Great Recession and its jobless recovery. It is motivated by concern that economic pressures are disproportionately born by the poor—in the form of cut-backs to safety net programs, as well as via longer-term increases in income and political inequality that feed back into future policy debates.