In 2006, the Searle Freedom Trust provided support for the Chicago Workshop on Black-White Inequality to conduct a three-year series of semi-annual conferences that explore various aspects of black-white inequality and why relative progress for blacks in the United States stopped in many respects during the past two decades. The Workshop is concerned with inequality in education, health, and family structures, as well as income.
The Working Group
The workshop is run by six distinguished professors from Universities around the country. For more information on the individual members of the working group, please click here.
The Next Meeting
The next meeting will be held October 2008 on the University of Chicago's campus. Seating for this event is limited. If you are interested in attending please email the workshop's organizers. This summer's newsletter has been sent out. Here is a small preview of the speakers attending the next workshop:
Bruce Western - Harvard University
Crime and the American Prison Boom
Steven Raphael - University of California, Berkeley
Why Are So Many Americans in Prison
Amee Kamdar - University of Chicago
Male Incarceration and Teen Fertility
James Heckman - University of Chicago
Taking the Easy Way Out: How the GED Testing Program Induces Students to Drop Out
Past Meetings
December 14, 2007 - University of Chicago
June 21, 2007 - Institute for Research on Poverty
December 15, 2006 - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
April 21, 2006 - University of Chicago