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Rising housing costs are pushing more seniors into homelessness

Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice discusses homelessness among senior citizens.

How to enable public policy climate solutions

When it comes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enhancing carbon sinks, and promoting adaptation to a changing climate, solutions abound. Implementing these solutions through policy, however, is anything but simple.

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Survey finds some confusion over mammogram guidelines

A recent survey question by the Annenberg Public Policy Center shows that some Americans appear to be confused about when women with an average risk of breast cancer should begin a regimen of regular mammograms. The survey finds that nearly half of those surveyed know that age 40 is when women at an average risk of breast cancer should begin to have mammograms every other year, and 11% are not sure.

Here’s what happened in a N.J. city when some got $12,000, no strings attached

A guaranteed income program by the School of Social Policy & Practice’s Center for Guaranteed Income Research improved financial stability, stress levels, and food security for New Jersey participants, with remarks from Amy Castro.

Why is the homeless population getting so much older?

Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice outlines the factors that have caused homelessness to increase among the elderly.

A bold idea to raise the birthrate: Make parenting less torturous

Corinne Low of the Wharton School questions how to solve the conditions making it hard for American women to have children.

Want juvenile incarceration rates to drop? Hire more social workers for defenders

Cheryl Bettigol of the Perelman School of Medicine and Tamara J. Cadet of the School of Social Policy & Practice argue that funding an increase in the number of social workers in the Defender Association of Philadelphia could reduce the economic and human toll of incarceration on the city’s communities.

Alice Wu, a Yellow Ribbon award recipient graduating from SP2's Master of Social Work program

Graduating student veteran makes use of a Yellow Ribbon award

Alice Wu, a Navy veteran graduating from the School of Social Policy & Practice in May, used support from the Yellow Ribbon Program to make a principled, impact-driven career change.

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DOGE says it has saved $160 billion. Those cuts have cost taxpayers $135 billion, one analysis says

The Annenberg School for Communication’s SCIMaP shows the impact of federal health-research cuts.

What is UBI? Universal Basic Income has buy-in from Columbus, Franklin County leaders

Amy Castro of the School of Social Policy & Practice says the number of universal-basic-income programs in the U.S. has grown from three in 2018 to more than 150 today.

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