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Aug 2022
30m 35s

How job loss and economic stress affect ...

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
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For many Americans, the past two-and-a-half years have been a time of economic turmoil. Anna Gassman-Pines, PhD, of Duke University, talks about how job loss, unstable work schedules and other hardships affect workers, their families and even entire communities, and about how working families – particularly low-wage workers – fared through the pandemic. Lin ... Show More
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