Hidden Pain
Penn professor coauthored a report on the grieving children of the pandemic.
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?
School of Social Policy and Practice Names New Dean
New SP2 dean: Sara “Sally” Bachman.
Oh, Kolkata! Sex Workers and the City
Far-afield trip: SP2 students visit sex-workers’ collective in India.
Shifting Gears
Ed McDonough’s slow road to fast cars.
New Dean to Emphasize “Wholesale Social Work”
Gelles named School of Social Work’s dean.