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25 Ways Psychologists Can Work to End Poverty
By Alycia Johnson, MA (Graduate Intern, APA Office of Socioeconomic Status) Today marks the 25th anniversary of the declaration of the...
donjacques
Oct 17, 20186 min read
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The Cost of Being Poor in a Warming World
By Ashley Charest, MSPH (Health Policy Analyst Associate, Maryland Department of Health) If you don’t feel the impacts of climate change...
donjacques
Jun 5, 20185 min read
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After Fifty Years, Why the Poor People’s Campaign is More Relevant Than Ever
By Lauren Walker (Graduate Intern, APA Office on Socioeconomic Status) The Poor People’s Campaign (May 12, 1968 – June 24, 1968) was a...
donjacques
Jun 4, 20184 min read
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For Richer or Poorer: What Works to Reduce Poverty in America?
By Annie Davis (Public Interest Policy Scholar, APA) How can we improve the economic wellbeing of American families? This was one of the...
donjacques
Dec 8, 20164 min read
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5 Ways to Teach Your Students about World Poverty
Jamie L. Franco-Zamudio, PhD (Associate Professor, Spring Hill College) with assistance from students, Paige E. Guillory and Claire M....
donjacques
Oct 17, 20166 min read
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Health and Healthcare Injustice: Why We Really Should Care About HIV Disparities
By Alyssa Arentoft, PhD (California State University, Northridge) & Monica Rivera Mindt, PhD (Fordham University & Icahn School of...
donjacques
Apr 26, 20163 min read
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Penalizing the Poor and Homeless: Psychology’s Contribution
Image source: Flickr user ccozzaglia [Astrid Idlewild] on Flickr, under Creative Commons By Maha Khalid (Program Coordinator, Office on...
donjacques
Jan 22, 20162 min read
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Poverty’s Impact on Short-Term Decision-Making, Street Harassment, Mass Incarceration and the
Welcome back to In Case You Missed It (our weekly roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health and social justice...
donjacques
Sep 29, 20153 min read
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What Makes People Gay (An Update), Ending Solitary Confinement in California Prisons – In Case
Welcome back to In Case You Missed It (our weekly roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health and social justice...
donjacques
Sep 1, 20154 min read
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Adjunct Faculty: Highly Educated, Working Hard for Society, and Struggling To Survive
By Gretchen M. Reevy, PhD (Lecturer, Psychology Department, California State University, East Bay) When we think of people who live below...
donjacques
Aug 24, 20155 min read
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We Need to Talk about Money: How Ignoring Socioeconomic Status Hurts Research
By Meagan Sweeney, MA (Graduate Intern, APA Office of Socioeconomic Status) There is a social convention to not talk about money. We...
donjacques
Aug 12, 20154 min read
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Stereotypes Affecting Women of Color, “Contagious” Gun Violence, Fighting Poverty –
Welcome back to In Case You Missed It (our weekly roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health and social justice...
donjacques
Jul 7, 20153 min read
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Rachel Dolezal, Poverty and the Young Brain, Flawed Humans and Flawed Justice – In Case You Mi
In this week’s In Case You Missed It (a roundup of articles touching on psychology, health, mental health and social justice issues that...
donjacques
Jun 15, 20156 min read
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In Case You Missed It – May 29, 2015 – Mental illness’ impact on the poor, psychol
In this week’s In Case You Missed It (a roundup of articles related to psychology, health, mental health and social justice collated from...
donjacques
May 29, 20155 min read
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The Need for Meaningful Policy Change: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
Last year, APA celebrated its Congressional Fellowship Program’s 40 years of success on Capitol Hill. The article below by a former APA...
donjacques
May 23, 20153 min read
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In Case You Missed It – May 15, 2015 – Black girls matter, abuse of mentally ill prisoners, 40 years
In this week’s In Case You Missed It (a roundup of articles related to psychology, health, mental health and social justice collated from...
donjacques
May 15, 20154 min read
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In Case You Missed It – April 24, 2015
Welcome to In Case You Missed It, a weekly roundup of news articles related to issues of psychology, health and mental health, social...
donjacques
Apr 24, 20154 min read
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In Case You Missed It – April 17, 2015
Welcome to In Case You Missed It, a weekly roundup of news articles related to issues of psychology, health and mental health, social...
donjacques
Apr 17, 20154 min read
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In Case You Missed It – April 3, 2015
Welcome to In Case You Missed It, a weekly roundup of news articles related to issues of psychology, health and mental health, social...
donjacques
Apr 3, 20156 min read
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In Case You Missed It – March 20, 2015
Welcome to In Case You Missed It, a weekly roundup of news articles related to issues of psychology, health and mental health, social...
donjacques
Mar 20, 20155 min read
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