Social Policy

USC experts weigh in on the major homelessness case before the justices.

Owens, an expert in social inequality, explains how California’s affordable housing crisis unfolded and the ways the state could fix the problem.

EARTH MONTH: The increase in climate-related disasters and pollution disproportionately affecting marginalized communities makes climate change a core social justice issue.

USC Price’s Homelessness Policy Research Institute examined the encampment outreach effort in Venice Beach.

USC researchers say increased transparency and more robust benefits for low-income families are needed — particularly when it comes to housing — even after their wages go up to help avoid “plateaus” and “cliffs.”

With racial and socioeconomic inequality come inequities in well-being.

A sociology professor says the services of grocery store workers, agricultural laborers, caretakers and others need to be prioritized in America.

From the gig economy to remote offices, USC business and policy experts imagine the future of work.

A USC scholar of religion and a colleague say many people fail to acknowledge the spiritual and religious pluralism of the social justice movement.

Why is the Golden State’s population growth flattening?