This cluster emphasizes investigations of differences in wealth, prestige, and power as determined by various dimensions of class, race, ethnicity, and gender. Research in this area encompasses such contemporary issues as poverty, single-parent households, the wellbeing of children, health and education reform, the changing nature of the welfare state, the changing composition of national elites, and the urban environment. The Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy, the African-American Studies Program, and the Industrial Relations Section of the Economics Department are nationally renowned programs that add resources to this cluster. An informal biweekly seminar brings together faculty and graduate students working in this area. The Global Network on Inequality (GNI) facilitates and supports short-term residencies in European and Japanese centers of scholarship for Princeton graduate students who are interested in these topics.