President Donald Trump likes to talk about the trade deficit as if it were the score of a football game — with the home team, of course, losing. Department Chair Steve Fazzari expresses his opinion towards Trump's view of trade and tariff.

This book is about the idea that transnational corporations can push these standards through their global supply chains, and in effect, pull factories, forests, and farms out of their local contexts and up to global best practices.

Missouri’s new law will go to a statewide referendum in November, while a pair of Republican lawmakers in Ohio announced last month they want to put the issue before voters in two years. Professor Jake Rosenfeld comments on this issue.

Blacks, especially women, are more likely to have been unarmed when killed by police than non-blacks, and that risk appears to increase in police departments with a greater presence of non-white officers, according to a new study of nationwide data from Washington University in St. Louis.

Among union households, Professor Jake Rosenfeld and Washington University postdoc Patrick Denice pointed out in an April blog post, fully 6 percent said they voted for neither Trump nor Clinton, which in most cases likely means they voted for Johnson or Stein.

Professor Adia Harvey Wingfield argues that for some men, gendered ideas about work can make entering a field like nursing very difficult. These beliefs persist even when labor market conditions shift so that male-dominated jobs become more scarce. Racism is stopping black men from solving our nursing shortage.

Timothy Bartley's specializations include global political economy and governance, environment and sustainability standards, and work and labor standards. He joined the sociology department this fall as a professor. As part of our ongoing series highlighting new faculty, we asked Bartley about his forthcoming book, his transition to St. Louis, and what's next.

With jobless rates at a two decade low, the United States is nearing full employment — but women are not reaping the full benefit, due to a lack of childcare options. Professor Caitlyn Collins says that the US has the most inhospitable family policy of any country in the developed world.

As President Donald Trump prepares to offer his first State of the Union address, a new analysis by a Washington University in St. Louis sociologist may explain why the pronounced, decades-long expansion of U.S.-based hate groups has slowed to a crawl during the first year of his administration.

Using survey data, sociologist Ariela Schachter has investigated how Americans think about race, immigration status, assimilation, and what it means to be ‘similar.’ She discusses her process and findings.

Professor Caitlyn Collins now investigates how public policies affect family life in both Europe and the US. She shares some of her findings on the laws and cultural attitudes that shape women's careers and lives.

While local minimum wage ordinances have become a popular issue among Democratic politicians in many of the country’s big cities, St. Louis’ situation is somewhat unique. Professor Jake Rosenfeld points to the successful 2014 statewide measure raising Arkansas’ minimum wage as an example of the issue’s resonance beyond a liberal base. Professor Steve Fazzari says research is mixed on minimum wage effects. Some papers show big job losses, others show minimal job losses.