[1] He is known for his statistical and analytic work on the economic effects of income and wealth distribution.
[3] He advocates incremental reforms to the U.S. welfare state in the direction of the social-democratic Nordic model, thereby increasing economic security and equal opportunity.
[5] Kenworthy's dissertation was supervised by Joel Rogers, Erik Olin Wright, and Wolfgang Streeck.
[6] Kenworthy worked as assistant professor of sociology at Rochester Institute of Technology 1994–1995 and held the same position at East Carolina University 1995–2000.
[7] Kenworthy played forward for the United States national youth soccer team.