I have thought seriously about the issues and circumstances faced by low-income people in our society and how we think of them in the social welfare field. Salisbury's research was used during the Welfare Reform debate that peaked in early 1995. Russell Baker of The New York Times wrote an interpretive article about the poor and the U.S. economic system based upon Salisbury's work. Subsequently, the Congressional Budget Office used the research to inform two areas of debate about the resulting legislation. This September, Salisbury presented his findings about the factors affecting birth rates among young black women in Social Indicators Research .
Conceptions vary on a seasonal basis, and no one has been able to explain why.
I've come the closest of anyone. Salisbury stressed that understanding the factors behind such complex issues is a matter of important policy concern, with consequences for the quality of life of many Americans. Salisbury's interest in human welfare extends from his work in the Peace Corps, graduate school at Syracuse University's Maxwell School, where he earned an M.P.A., and his broad experience at Colgate. He vividly remembers experiencing with Clement Henshaw the physicist's way of thinking. Henshaw would go through experimental events from the history of physics and talk about the lives and times of the people who had done them, and what was important to the history of their thought.