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An unusual ‘village’ aims to help people leave long-term homelessness for good

Dennis Culhane of the School of Social Policy & Practice discusses the difficulty of recovering from substance abuse while being homeless.

Is housework holding back wage equality?

New research from Wharton associate professor of business economics and public policy Corinne Low links unequal domestic workloads to stalled progress on closing the wage gap—and even declining marriage rates.

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Nafisa Bangura (left) and Angelica Dadda (right) doing hands-on experimental work in the Composto Lab.

Students test one way to combat extreme heat in Philadelphia

Third-year students Nafisa Bangura and Angelica Dadda expanded upon a multidisciplinary research endeavor to evaluate a reflective pavement coating as a tool to mitigate extreme heat. Their work may inform policy efforts to improve urban heat resilience.

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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.

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