Mr. Cherry is a professor of economics at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. His main areas of interest include race and gender earnings' disparities in America, issues of poverty, low-income housing, tax reform to benefit working families, domestic relations, and immigration. These and other similar subjects are featured in his latest social policy book, published by NYU&nbsp;Press under the title, <em>Moving Working Families Forward: Third Way Policies That Work</em>.

Robert Cherry has written extensively on the subject of discrimination and race, as well as the Holocaust in Poland.