Welcome to Bending the Arc, the new podcast from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy & Practice. We’ll talk about issues in which the moral universe just doesn’t seem to be bending toward justice quite quickly enough, and we’ll highlight the people helping it get there. You’ll hear from people that are most affected and vulnerable to societal injustices and, those working tirelessly to help them – researchers, policymakers, advocates, social workers. We’ll pair a critica ...
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Episode 7: Moving from Poverty to ALICE: Income Insufficiency & Need in the 21st Century
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Why is the poverty level dropping when the gap between how much it costs to live and how much families earn is actually growing? Workers across the United States are experiencing income insufficiency—the phenomena of working for a wage that doesn't pay enough to cover basic needs but earning too much to be eligible for social support programs. They…
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Episode 6: It’s Time to Take the Universal Basic Income Seriously
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Giving money to every American - no strings attached - sounds like a parody of liberal governance. But the policy, once proposed by Richard Nixon and suggested by colonial pamphleteer Thomas Paine, is gaining traction among a unique coalition of thought leaders, Silicon Valley executives, and politicians from across the ideological spectrum. This c…
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Episode 5: From Selfies to Social Justice
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Episode 5: From Selfies to Social Justice“Technology is best when it brings people together,” Matt Mullenweg, a founder of WordPress, wrote several years ago. As the reach of mobile devices continues to grow, non-profit organizations have recognized the utility of tech as useful tool in the pursuit of social justice. In this episode, we take a clos…
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Episode 4: Guns do More than Shoot: Coercive Control and Firearms in Intimate Relationships
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Women who experience abuse are five times more likely to be killed if their partner has access to a gun. However, a gun never needs to be fired to entrap and terrorize a victim of intimate partner violence. On this episode we look at the relationship between firearms, domestic violence, and coercive control—a form of relationship abuse in which a w…
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Episode 3: That Happens Here? Sex Trafficking in the United States
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We delve into a topic largely ignored - domestic sex trafficking in the United States. We talk with experts and advocates who explain the startling stats and life experiences of sex trafficking victims, along with what we, as a country, are doing to fix it.โดย UPenn's School of Social Policy & Practice
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Episode 2: Violence: Seeing the Forest From the Trees
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At the March for Our Lives, 17-year-old South Los Angeles native Edna Chavez shared her experience of growing up surrounded by violence. “I learned how to duck from bullets before I learned how to read!” she told the crowd of protestors. While FBI crime statistics for 2016 suggest violent crime is on the rise, a closer read reveals that the type of…
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Welcome to Bending the Arc, the new podcast from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy & Practice. We’ll talk about issues in which the moral universe just doesn’t seem to be bending toward justice quite quickly enough, and we’ll highlight the people helping it get there.You’ll hear from people that are most affected and vulnerab…
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Episode 1: Stranger in a Strange Land: Understanding Homelessness and Community
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More than 1.5 million men, women, and children are homeless every year. They move into shelter at their most vulnerable moments, but are sometimes met by new neighbors who fear that with them comes violence, drug use, worse schools, and lower property values. We dig into the research to see if this holds true (spoiler alert, it doesn’t) and we’ll h…
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