Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Inside the Russell Sage Foundation
Russell Sage made his wealth in America's first Gilded Age—as a financier and railroad executive. Lately, that fortune has bankrolled a remarkably deep dig into the inequities of the second Gilded Age, with research grants going to scholars across the country who've looked at today's inequality and its consequences from every angle.
The Russell Sage Foundation is a nonpartisan outfit overseen by academics, and it doesn't support advocacy. But its research has played a crucial, if subtle role in moving inequality to the center of politics and policy in recent years....