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Get to know what America's low-wage workforce looks like in this excellent piece from WorkRise. There are so many helpful nuggets to identify areas of intervention to support these workers and create more equitable career pathways to higher-wage #goodjobs. workrisenetwork.org/features/who-l…

What would people do if their student debt was forgiven? Stephen Roll, @DespardMat, Leah Hamilton and I found that debt forgiveness can increase behaviors that promote economic stability and social mobility...and that the amount of debt forgiveness matters journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

Join us on Friday for our first Spooky Edition of Data and Donuts at Delmar Divine! Donuts will be provided! (Coffee too.) Click the link to sign up for free! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Data & Donuts at Delmar DivINe this morning was a great success! So good to join with data professionals all around the St. Louis region to discuss how we can make data more accessible for everyone.

Don't forget to register for our free Data for Social Impact event next week!

There's still time to join us this afternoon for this free virtual event from Data for Social Impact. Hope to see you on Zoom at 1 p.m. CT!

The SPI team is at the APPAM Fall Research Conference this week, sharing their insights on public policy and how to make public services work for all!

SPI Associate Director Dan Ferris and faculty affiliate Sarah Moreland-Russell are co-editing a special issue of Nutrients MDPI: "Nutrition Policy and Programs in Educational Settings: Equitable Approaches to Food Security." Submissions are due May 15 mdpi.com/journal/nutrie…

SPI Associate Director Jason Jabbari will join a panel of child well-being experts for "Bright Futures Ahead: Essential Techniques and Policies for Supporting and Uplifting Today’s Youth" on Dec. 5. RSVP today! happenings.wustl.edu/event/bright_f…

In this piece with Jason Jabbari & Social Policy Institute's Haotian Zheng, Stephen Roll & Oren Heller, we find that reskilling increases entrepreneurship & optimism. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Remember to register for this panel featuring SPI's @JabarriJason on Tuesday!

More: Daniel Auguste, Stephen Roll & Faculty Assoc. @DespardMat write that the #GigEconomy, far from democratizing entrepreneurship, may instead worsen labor mkt inequality. Findings & implications here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… Sage Journals Social Policy Institute UNCGSWK Florida Atlantic College of Arts and Letters

SPI's Katie Ragsdale on our participatory research approach: Fostering Inclusive Policy Research: Embracing a Participatory Approach socialpolicyinstitute.wustl.edu/fostering-incl…

“...the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.” – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Read more about SPI's participatory research approach for our guaranteed basic income work: bit.ly/47BqJsm

New journal article featuring SPI's Yung Chun, PhD and Jason Jabbari: Can training and apprentice programs in STEM increase worker life satisfaction and optimism? sites.wustl.edu/spi1/can-train…

Just published: my analysis of families' views on the child tax credit with Dr. Dylan @ljbrugger & Social Policy Institute, as Congress edges closer to a deal on expanding it. Families described the #CTC as a lifeline and "peace of mind." Full text: rdcu.be/dxt7O

New article on SPI's Yung Chun, PhD and Jason Jabbari's work with LaunchCode: STEM training, apprenticeships increase work satisfaction socialpolicyinstitute.wustl.edu/stem-training-…

Which Student Advocacy Day session most intrigues you? Don't miss “Connecting Policy Analysis with Storytelling for Policy Impact,” by #BrownSchool’s Jewel Stafford & Dan Ferris. Save your spot: tinyurl.com/yck5y7jp #MacroSocialWork #SocialWorkTwitter #CSWE #SocialWorkEd

Revealing Barriers to Cyber-Protection Among Small and Medium Businesses socialpolicyinstitute.wustl.edu/revealing-barr…

We are pleased to share that the Social Policy Institute & the Center for Social Development (CSD) have integrated. Learn more about the new CSD emerging from the strategic combination of these two accomplished centers: csd.wustl.edu/the-new-csd/