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Thriving while surviving: Understanding the social needs of cancer survivors

Penn researchers and their colleagues have investigated how unmet social needs impact the health and well-being of U.S. cancer survivors. Their findings are relevant for other serious chronic illnesses.

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Project Unloaded empowers Chicago teens to change the narrative on guns and violence through social media

PIK Professor Desmond Patton says that Project Unloaded in Chicago is unique in its campaign-driven efforts to combat gun violence.

Four years after Providence launches guaranteed income program, where are things now?

Research by the School of Social Policy & Practice indicates that a guaranteed-income program can help people improve the quality of their housing.

What happens when you give students $50 a week?

A study by Stacia West of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research at the School of Social Policy & Practice found that children given financial access and means grew in understanding of financial concepts without any educational intervention.

These community college grads are headed to universities. A basic income program helped make it happen

Stacia West of the Center for Guaranteed Income Research at the School of Social Policy & Practice says that purchases like beds, shoes, and housing, which many middle- and upper-income people take for granted, speak to the dignity of participants in a basic income program.

These LA community college students are getting paid to go to school. Here’s how

Researchers at the School of Social Policy & Practice found that giving Santa Fe community college students $400 a month for one year led to positive outcomes, with remarks from Amy Castro.

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.

Penn Global awards two Penn Wharton China Center Residency Grants

Penn Global has awarded its first two Residency Grants to Chao Guo, professor of nonprofit management in the School of Social Policy and Practice, and Emily Hannum, Stanley I. Sheerr Term Professor in the Social Sciences, professor of sociology, and associate dean of social sciences in the School of Arts and Sciences.

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.

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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