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Visits to Capitol Hill for World Poverty Day
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Participating in the visit to Capitol Hill were (left to right): Marybeth Shinn, PhD (Past President-SPSSI), Keyona King-Tsikata, MPH (Director, APA Office on Socioeconomic Status), Heather Bullock, PhD (Chair, Committee on Socioeconomic Status), and Carrie Langner, PhD (APA SPSSI Fellow)
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APA’s Public Interest Directorate Government Relations Office, APA’s Office on SES, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) participate.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Washington, D.C. — In observance of World Poverty Day, October 17, 2007, APA’s Public Interest Directorate Government Relations Office, APA’s Office on Socioeconomic Status, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) coordinated several congressional visits for APA and SPSSI members to discuss psychological research on poverty and related legislation. Heather Bullock, PhD, current chair of the Committee on Socioeconomic Status (CSES) and Marybeth Shinn, Ph.D. also participated in these visits. The visits were with key congressional offices with strong track records in poverty-related legislation. In addition to raising awareness of the work that APA and SPSSI are doing on the topic of poverty, the visits laid the groundwork for the infusion of psychological science in poverty-related legislation.
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