Jamila Michener demonstrates how the growing movement of tenant organizing “illuminates a path toward U.S. economic policies that are responsive to the needs of people and communities, nourishing to democracy, and an antidote to the worse excesses of populism.”

The Contribution Project, founded by Anthony Burrow, offers Cornell students $400 for projects that make a contribution. Last year, the project expanded nationally with the aim to support more “young people to exercise their agency, often building relationships, community and a deep sense of purpose in the process.”

The brief wave of racial progress in the early 2020s has been countered by successive waves of counter-messaging starting in 2021 that has escalated into a tsunami of policy backlash in 2025. Erika Franklin Fowler and Neil Lewis Jr. have been tracking this shift in public discourse toward racial equity as it has unfolded over time.

The Child Tax Credit is a tax benefit that helps offset the cost of raising children. Even within a trajectory of growing partisan conflict, the CTC has maintained bipartisan support for more than two decades, becoming an important part of the US social safety net and lifting millions of families out of poverty each year. Jamila Michener and Sarah D. Rozenblum show why the Child Tax Credit is so important for equity.

A hostile environment that threatens Latino noncitizens with deportation is associated with psychological distress among not only Latino noncitizens but also Latino U.S. citizens who aren’t vulnerable to deportation, a Cornell-led research group found.

The center will connect and amplify the university’s research and scholarship around issues of racial injustice and inequality, and its work to develop more just and equitable public policy.