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The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) will award the 2022 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize to children’s rights activist Marian Wright Edelman. The Moynihan Prize is awarded [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (September 21, 2021) – The American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS) will award the 2022 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize to children’s rights [...]

The Academy recently partnered with Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, for a pair of webinars focusing on on supporting family income and [...]

By Kenneth Prewitt, AAPSS President Calls for the implementation of research echo across higher education, sometimes labeled research impact or “knowledge-to-action” (the term used in this [...]

When President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan (ARP) into law in March 2021, observers described it as “the second war on poverty,” almost matching in scope and ambition the […]

The AAPSS Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize event and panel discussion that took place on May 13, 2021, focused on the future of cooperative solutions to climate change and how leaders […]

To me, some of the most hopeful statistics reported since President Biden’s inauguration have to do with cable news primetime viewership. That CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News have all seen […]

Watch the event here Every year, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 increases, and the world experiences more of the effects of climate change. International approaches to lowering emissions [...]

Marta Tienda will be the next president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, succeeding Ken Prewitt,  who has led the organization since 2015. Her term begins on July […]

From birth to age 18, over one-third of U.S. children are investigated by child welfare systems due to allegations of child abuse and neglect, one-eighth are determined to be victims […]