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"For the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States"

— From the Letter of Gift by Margaret Olivia Sage establishing
the Russell Sage Foundation, April 19, 1907

The Russell Sage Foundation is the principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences. Located in New York City, it is a research center, a funding source for studies by scholars at other academic and research institutions, and an active member of the nation's social science community. The foundation also publishes, under its own imprint, the books that derive from the work of its grantees and visiting scholars.

Sheldon H. Danziger, the Henry J. Meyer Distinguished University Professor of Public Policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, will be the tenth president of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A report funded by the Foundation offers an unparalleled account of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York.

Political scientist Martin Gilens has released the data for his groundbreaking research on economic inequality and political representation.

The Foundation will release seven new titles this spring, including books on the financial crisis, the incorporation of young immigrants in America, and public opinion on counterterrorism policies.

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Feb 13 The Impact of Raising the Minimum Wage
Feb 12 Are "Boy-Friendly" Schools The Answer for Underachieving Male Students?
Feb 11 Praise for RSF's book Who Gets Represented?

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Featured Publications

Coping with Crisis

Government Reactions to the Great Recession

Nancy Bermeo
Jonas Pontusson

Coping with Crisis offers a rigorous analysis of the choices societies made as the global economic crisis unfolded in 2008.
Whose Rights?

Counterterrorism and the Dark Side of American Public Opinion

Clem Brooks
Jeff Manza

Whose Rights? explores the underlying sources of public attitudes toward the war on terror in a more detailed and comprehensive manner than has ever been attempted.
The American Non-Dilemma

Racial Inequality Without Racism

Nancy DiTomaso

A comprehensive examination of the persistence of racial inequality in the post-Civil Rights era and how it plays out in today's economic and political context.

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Research Update

Racial Bias in Policing

The Russell Sage Foundation's Working Group on Racial Bias in Policing integrates experimental and survey research with unprecedented access to police personnel data to shed light on how, why, and when race influences police decisions.

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Featured Research

U.S. 2010

For sixty years, the Russell Sage Foundation has produced authoritative research on trends and changes in U.S. society using information from the decennial census. U.S. 2010: America After the First Decade of the New Century continues this tradition by reporting on key social and economic trends during the previous decade.

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In the News

Feb 11

NPR cites research from RSF's volume Security v. Liberty

Feb 11

RSF author Claudia Buchmann publishes Letter to the Editor in the New York Times

Feb 11

The Huffington Post talks to RSF author Michael Stoll about residential mobility

Feb 8

NYTimes.com quotes RSF author David Sears' research on racial attitudes toward President Obama

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