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Hello Fediverse! We have to acknowledge that SSR hasn't been too active on here in recent months.
But we do want to note that we're starting a new account today on BlueSky, which you can find at SocServReview.BSky.Social. We're hopeful that it will be a site for greater engagement. Please find us there!
How does social work scholarship construct criminalized mothers and their children?
In our current issue, Sandra M. Leotti, Jenifer S. Muthanna, and Ben Anderson-Nathe examine the punitive and paternalistic responses deployed through discourses of failed mothers and at-risk children.
Read more at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722776
If there were universal basic income, how would people in the US use it?
Using data from experiments embedded in 2 nationally representative surveys, authors in our current issue report that most would use their payments for regular expenses, paying debts, & building savings.
Read more at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/723522
An open-access article in our current issue estimates the reduction in Child Protective Service (CPS) involvement from 3 policy packages to reduce child poverty.
The authors' microsimulations find reductions in annual CPS investigations AND in racial disproportionality.
You can read the article for free at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/723219
Our new issue features an *open-access* article from Carolyn Barnes, Jamila Michener, and Emily Rains comparing bureaucratic encounters in 3 programs: WIC, SNAP, and Medicaid.
The authors draw on qualitative interviews with both clients and caseworkers. Read it at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/723365
In our current issue, Warren Lowell and Maria Hanratty look at how different government definitions of homelessness impact children's educations.
They find that kids in doubled-up families, whom HUD does not define as homeless, still face notable educational risks.
You can read the open-access article at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/722003
Abstract The Department of Education’s (ED) definition of homelessness includes any child who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) uses a narrower definition that excludes doubled-up families. These definitions determine how resources are prioritized for families, yet we know very little about the differences in risks faced by children identified by these departments. We leverage a data linkage between public schools and homeless management information systems in Minnesota to provide novel evidence on the educational risks faced by children identified as homeless by ED and HUD. We find that ED-identified-homeless and HUD-identified-homeless children experience comparable increases in chronic absenteeism and school instability in the year they experience homelessness, challenging the popular conception that doubled-up families face lower educational risks. Using these findings, we discuss strategies to integrate homelessness data better, assess needs, and prioritize resources for children experiencing homelessness.
We are pleased to announce that the 2023 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize has been awarded to Yoosun Park and Michael Reisch for their article “To ‘Elevate, Humanize, Christianize, Americanize’: Social Work, White Supremacy, and the Americanization Movement, 1880–1930,” which appears in the December 2022 issue.
The Breul Prize goes to the article judged by the editor, after seeking input from the editorial board, to be the best published in SSR in the preceding year.
In our current issue, Meg Duffy and H. Luke Shaefer
examine how administrative burden, high rejection rates, and, slow aid depressed application rates for disaster aid after two hurricanes in Marion County, South Carolina.
Check out the article at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/721087
Abstract As climate change intensifies, analyzing the barriers to disaster recovery faced by marginalized communities is increasingly important. Using in-depth interviews from the Understanding Communities of Deep Disadvantage project, a community-level investigation of disadvantage in the United States, this study examines participant experiences with the federal disaster recovery system in the wake of Hurricanes Matthew and Florence. Our analysis reveals how administrative burden, high rejection rates for key disaster recovery programs, and the slow pace of aid ignited a feedback loop that depressed application rates for disaster aid in a community with extreme need.