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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.

Christina Bartzokis is earning dual degrees from Penn Carey Law and the School of Social Policy & Practice, and is headed to Louisiana to start her practice as a public defender.

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Aiming for a ‘holistic representation’ career as dual-degree Law and SP2 grad

Christina Bartzokis worked as a Child Protective Services case worker for three years in rural Oregon. Now she’s set her sights on Louisiana, where she’ll serve as a public defender.

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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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How economic stressors and vaccination shaped mental health during the pandemic

The research, conducted by SP2’s Chenyi Ma, emphasizes the need to integrate mental health support into disaster risk management.

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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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