News

September 2011

September 2nd 2011
Medical sociologist Donald Light, editor of SSRC/Columbia U book The Risks of Prescription Drugs, quoted in AARP Bulletin

September 2009

September 23rd 2009
Museum of American Finance and SSRC co-host panel on privatization of risk, to take place Sept 29.
September 9th 2009
In advance of President Obama’s address to Congress on health care reform, Jacob Hacker talks to Salon about why a public option is crucial. Hacker edited Health at Risk, part of the SSRC’s Privatization of Risk book series.

August 2009

August 25th 2009
NY Times “Prescriptions” blog interviews 1996 Abe Fellow John Creighton Campbell about lessons from the Japanese health care system.
August 20th 2009
NY Times columnist Paul Krugman credits Jacob Hacker, editor of SSRC book Health at Risk, for originating the proposal that would allow individuals to buy insurance from a government-run plan.

June 2009

June 25th 2009
Jacob Hacker, editor of SSRC health care book, testifies before House Education and Labor Committee on health care reform legislation.
June 17th 2009
Jacob Hacker, editor of SSRC health care book, blogs in The New Republic on fast-moving health care debate.

May 2009

May 14th 2009
Michael Lind of New America Foundation interviews SSRC President Craig Calhoun about real-time social science. Go to YouTube video.
May 7th 2009
CUP interviews pensions book editor Michael Orenstein.

April 2009

April 17th 2009
Craig Calhoun relates C.W. Mills’ teachings to economic crisis.

February 2009

February 2nd 2009
Stimulating U.S. economy will also help remake America, observes Craig Calhoun.

January 2009

January 30th 2009
Craig Calhoun comments on the social agenda within Obama’s stimulus package in interview with NPR’s Liz Halloran