Bending the Arc
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Bending the Arc
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...
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Episode 7: Moving from Poverty to ALICE: Income Insufficiency & Need in the 21st Century
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 Un...
Episode 6: It’s Time to Take the Universal Basic Income Seriously
Giving money to every American - no strings attached - sounds like a parody of liberal governance. But the policy, once proposed by Richard Nixon and...
Episode 5: From Selfies to Social Justice
Episode 5: From Selfies to Social Justice
“Technology is best when it brings people together,” Matt Mullenweg, a founder of WordPress, wrote sev...
Episode 4: Guns do More than Shoot: Coercive Control and Firearms in Intimate Relationships
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 ent...
Episode 3: That Happens Here? Sex Trafficking in the United States
We delve into a topic largely ignored - domestic sex trafficking in the United States. We talk with experts and advocates who explain the startling s...
Episode 2: Violence: Seeing the Forest From the Trees
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 h...
Bending the Arc: the Trailer
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...
Episode 1: Stranger in a Strange Land: Understanding Homelessness and Community
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...