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Speaking about employers colluding to suppress employees’ wages, Ioana Marinescu says, “I suspect those things are all over the place. The benefits of collusion may not be super large, but if the costs are quite low, why not do it if you can extract profit?”

“You can’t budget your way out of poverty,” says SP2 assistant professor Amy Castro. “If you could, all this money that’s been poured into financial literacy would have resulted in upward mobility. And it hasn’t. Because poverty by definition is lack of cash.”

The Forecast Direct podcast at UCLA Anderson features a conversation with Leo Feler and SP2 associate professor Ioana Marinescu regarding research on how enhanced unemployment insurance affected job search and employment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

SP2 associate professor Yoosun Park was a recent guest on the New Books Network to discuss her book, Facilitating Injustice: The Complicity of Social Workers in the Forced Removal and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946. Dr. Park’s book describes the role of social workers in Japanese internment.

The child tax credit can be seen as a type of scale model of universal basic income. On The New Yorker Radio Hour, Sheelah Kolhatkar moderates a conversation about this issue between SP2 assistant professor Amy Castro and Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute.

SP2 associate professor Ioana Marinescu is a featured expert in WalletHub’s analysis of the productivity and current conditions of workers across the United States.

In an opinion piece for USA Today, SP2 professor Susan B. Sorenson, PhD, writes about how parents can discuss campus sexual assault with their college-bound daughters

SP2 associate professor Yoosun Park, PhD, is highlighted in the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)’s Center for Diversity’s Educator|Resource of the Month feature for her research, including the book Facilitating Injustice: The Complicity of Social Workers in the Forced Removal & Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1946.

SP2 associate professor Ioana Marinescu, PhD, was a recent guest on KALW Local Public Radio to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has altered America’s work force and labor market.