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Fighting Poverty With Cash
Several decades since the last big income experiment was conducted in the US, School of Social Policy & Practice assistant professor Amy Castro Baker has helped deliver promising data out of Stockton, California, about the effects of giving people no-strings-attached money every month. Now boosted by a new research center at Penn that she’ll colead, more cities are jumping on board to see if guaranteed income can lift their residents out of poverty. Will it work? And will policymakers listen?
The Vaccine Trenches
Key breakthroughs leading to the powerful mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 were forged at Penn. That triumph was almost 50 years in the making, longer on obstacles than celebration, and the COVID-19 vaccines may only be the beginning of its impact on 21st-century medicine.
Webside Manner
Virtual healthcare by smartphone or computer helps physicians consult with and diagnose patients much more quickly, while offering them convenience and flexibility. The potential to save lives and improve efficiencies is tremendous. But can uncertain regulations and reimbursements, equity and access disparities, and shaky internet connections be surmounted?
Writing Lives
Middle school memories. Meditations on motherhood. A prismatic accounting of the self. A long life well and furiously lived: on new memoirs by Jordan Sonnenblick C’91, Courtney Zoffness C’00, Beth Kephart C’82, and Nick Lyons W’53.
Old Story, New Lens
Gabrielle Glore W’91’s passion made Sylvie’s Love happen.
Finding Refuge in the Newsroom
Amna Nawaz C’01 is a correspondent and anchor at PBS NewsHour.
Outside Track
Henry “Hank” Gutman C’72 has less than a year to help fix NYC’s DOT.
A Sense of Purpose, A Sense of Place, A Sense of Penn
From College Hall | A new generation’s “rendezvous with destiny.”
Letters
May|Jun: Historical arguments, and more.
Impermanent Residence
Home is where?
Rice Pudding
Pandemic connections that will last.
Bringing up the Dead
“We’d entered without a map.”
Shot of Confidence
The roots of vaccine hesitancy among Blacks.