Cook Center’s social equity research advances bold solutions
Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences at Duke is helping to shape policy in Washington.
I’ve long thought we needed to have some sort of structure to try to offset the deep economic disadvantages that are associated with which family you’re born into.
— William “Sandy” Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy
One of the most important catalysts of that is economist and Duke professor William “Sandy” Darity Jr. Darity is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy and director of Duke’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity. The center’s goal is to discover the causes and consequences of inequality – and then provide solutions for its adverse effects. Darity and his colleagues are making a real difference at the Cook Center with their idea for a federal job guarantee to provide full-time work for any American seeking and unable to obtain satisfactory employment. The idea is seeing support from both sides of the aisle in Congress.
