CCF Briefing
- The State of Poverty and Disadvantage in New York City
- Japan’s Working Mothers: Record Responsibilities. Little Help from Dads
- He Committed Murder. Then He Graduated From an Elite Law School. Would You Hire Him as Your Attorney?
- Woman Killed by Fire in Menstruation Hut, as Nepal Fights a Tradition
- You Don’t Keep a Failure Résumé? Maybe It’s Time to Start.
- Why You Should Dig Up Your Family’s History — and How to Do It
- Millennials face greater risk of some cancers due to obesity
- Debunking the Myths About Male Sexuality
- Over 60, and Crushed by Student Loan Debt
- In an Unequal America, Getting to Work Can Be Hell
- The Suburbanization of American Arrests
- Demand for Long-Acting Birth Control Rose After Trump’s Election Amid Insurance Concerns, Study Shows
- Cleaner Classrooms and Rising Scores: One Program Mirrors Head Start’s Quiet Gains
- What Happens When Autism Becomes a Literary Device?
- Why No One Should Be Surprised By Democratic Calls For Ralph Northam’s Resignation
- The Challenge of Managing Other People’s Pain
- The Gift of Shared Grief
- Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two
- Giant Strides in World Health, but It Could Be So Much Better
- One Lawyer, One Day, 194 Felony Cases
- Are Smartphones and Social Media Hurting Our Kids?
- The Right Way to Spank a Child
- Sexual Abuse of Nuns: A Longstanding Church Scandal Emerges From Shadows
- Overlooked No More: Mabel Grammer, Whose Brown Baby Plan Found Homes for Hundreds
- Workplace Theft Is on the Rise
- Why Swedes Are Chiller Parents Than Americans
- Industrial Exoskeletons Give Workers a Lift
- An Online Tool to Catch Workplace Sexual Predators
- What’s a ‘Normal’ Family, Anyway?
- Drinking While Pregnant: An Inconvenient Truth
- The Real State of the Union, in Charts
- The Helicopter Parent Descends on College Football
- Racist? Fair? Biased? Asian-American Alumni Debate Elite High School Admissions
- What ‘Anna Karenina’ Taught Me About Living With Depression
- ‘A Match Into a Can of Gasoline’: Measles Outbreak Now an Emergency in Washington State
- For Car Buyers Who Got a Lemon, State Laws Vary Widely
- Navigating Bureaucracy? Try Technology
- Official Apologizes After Blaming Childless People for Japan’s Shrinking Population
- Colonists Brought Death, Disease and Climate Change to the Americas, Study Finds
- Socially Liberal, Fiscally Conservative Voters Preferred Trump In 2016
- When Religion Leads to Trauma
- Screen Use at Bedtime May Impair Children’s Quality of Life
- Cleaner Classrooms and Rising Scores: One Program Mirrors Head Start’s Quiet Gains
- What Happens When Autism Becomes a Literary Device?
- Calls For Northam’s Resignation Reflect White Democrats’ Changing Attitude On Racism
- The Challenge of Managing Other People’s Pain
- The Gift of Shared Grief
- Japan’s Working Mothers: Record Responsibilities. Little Help from Dads
- He Committed Murder. Then He Graduated From an Elite Law School. Would You Hire Him as Your Attorney?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/business/bruce-reilly-murder-conviction-lawyer.html
- Woman Killed by Fire in Menstruation Hut, as Nepal Fights a Tradition
- The State of Poverty and Disadvantage in New York City
https://robinhoodorg-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2018/12/PT_ANNUAL_12.19.pdf
42% of New Yorkers have lived in poverty at some point in the past 3 years.
- Japan’s Working Mothers: Record Responsibilities. Little Help from Dads
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/world/asia/japan-working-mothers.html
Men in Japan do fewer hours of housework and child care than in any of the world’s richest nations. That keeps women from getting better jobs and holds back the economy.
- He Committed Murder. Then He Graduated From an Elite Law School. Would You Hire Him as Your Attorney?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/business/bruce-reilly-murder-conviction-lawyer.html
A bipartisan consensus has taken hold: After prison, nonviolent offenders should get a second chance at normal lives. But what about someone whose criminal history — and ambitions — are more extreme?
- Woman Killed by Fire in Menstruation Hut, as Nepal Fights a Tradition
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/world/asia/nepal-menstruation-hut-death-chhaupadi.html
Despite a ban and efforts to educate Nepalese about a centuries-old practice of banishing menstruating women to isolated huts, the tradition stubbornly lives on.
- You Don’t Keep a Failure Résumé? Maybe It’s Time to Start.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/03/smarter-living/failure-resume.html
Failure isn’t a roadblock. It’s part of the process.
- Why You Should Dig Up Your Family’s History — and How to Do It
Learning your history is forced reckoning, asking you to consider whose stories you carry with you and which ones you want to carry forward.
- Millennials face greater risk of some cancers due to obesity
- Debunking the Myths About Male Sexuality
https://www.wsj.com/articles/debunking-the-myths-about-male-sexuality-11549117800
Long-held stereotypes contend that men are always interested in sex, happiest being the pursuer and focused solely on the physical. A new book disagrees.
- Over 60, and Crushed by Student Loan Debt
https://www.wsj.com/articles/over-60-and-crushed-by-student-loan-debt-11549083631
Older Americans are struggling under the burden of student loans—their children’s and their own.
- In an Unequal America, Getting to Work Can Be Hell
https://www.thenation.com/article/transit-deserts-extreme-commuters-inequality/
Welcome to the world of transit deserts and extreme commutes, where your income can determine if and how you reach your job.
- The Suburbanization of American Arrests
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/02/american-arrest-rates-suburban-urban-crime-policing/581587
As U.S. arrest rates fall, suburban areas are getting a growing share of policing attention, according to a new data tool from the Vera Institute of Justice.
- Demand for Long-Acting Birth Control Rose After Trump’s Election Amid Insurance Concerns, Study Shows
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/health/iud-birth-control-trump.html
The study found a nearly 22 percent increase in the demand for long-acting reversible contraceptive methods in the 30 days after the 2016 election.
- Cleaner Classrooms and Rising Scores: One Program Mirrors Head Start’s Quiet Gains
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/us/politics/head-start-preschool.html
The improvements made by the country’s biggest preschool program offer a story of bipartisan progress at odds with its polarizing time.
- What Happens When Autism Becomes a Literary Device?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/books/review/autism-marie-myung-ok-lee.html
The disorder is poorly understood. Should novelists be able to make it mean whatever they want?
- Why No One Should Be Surprised By Democratic Calls For Ralph Northam’s Resignation
How the Democratic Party has changed in regard to race.
- The Challenge of Managing Other People’s Pain
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/well/family/the-challenge-of-managing-other-peoples-pain.html
Why does one child cry inconsolably after a needle stick while another watches with curiosity as the shot is administered?
- The Gift of Shared Grief
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/opinion/death-grief-condolences.html
It’s hard to know what to say to people in mourning. Say something anyway.
- Tech Is Splitting the U.S. Work Force in Two
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/business/economy/productivity-inequality-wages.html
A small group of well-educated professionals enjoys rising wages, while most workers toil in low-wage jobs with few chances to advance.
- Giant Strides in World Health, but It Could Be So Much Better
Americans tend to overestimate the problems in poorer nations.
- One Lawyer, One Day, 194 Felony Cases
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/31/us/public-defender-case-loads.html
The Constitution guarantees poor defendants a lawyer. It doesn’t say the lawyer will have enough time to actually work their cases.
- Are Smartphones and Social Media Hurting Our Kids?
https://freebeacon.com/issues/are-smartphones-and-social-media-hurting-our-kids/
Carlson monologue hits on complicated question of adolescent health
- The Right Way to Spank a Child
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-right-way-to-spank-a-child-11549410421
A medical academy wrongly conflates discipline with abuse.
- Sexual Abuse of Nuns: A Longstanding Church Scandal Emerges From Shadows
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/world/europe/pope-francis-sexual-abuse-nuns.html
Pope Francis’ acknowledgment of the problem came after decades of allegations and seeming Vatican inaction, and arrived at a time of heightened awareness of sexual abuse in the #MeToo era.
- Overlooked No More: Mabel Grammer, Whose Brown Baby Plan Found Homes for Hundreds
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/obituaries/mabel-grammer-overlooked.html
Grammer’s self-run adoption agency made it possible for unwanted mixed-race children in Germany to find homes after World War II.
- Workplace Theft Is on the Rise
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/stealing-from-work-more-common/580429/
As the line between work and home blurs, office supplies attract sticky fingers.
- Why Swedes Are Chiller Parents Than Americans
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/02/american-parents-scandinavian-different/582103/
A new book looks at the wide variety of parenting styles around the world.
- Industrial Exoskeletons Give Workers a Lift
https://www.wsj.com/articles/industrial-exoskeletons-give-workers-a-lift-11547730001
Ford, Boeing, Toyota and others are equipping workers with wearable devices that enhance strength and endurance. “Iron Man”-style powered suits could be next
- An Online Tool to Catch Workplace Sexual Predators
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-online-tool-to-catch-workplace-sexual-predators-11547135166
The nonprofit Callisto is bringing its digital reporting platform to the office. The goal: to identify repeat #MeToo offenders and protect their accusers
- What’s a ‘Normal’ Family, Anyway?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/style/the-edit-normal-unconventional-family.html
My family isn’t exactly traditional, and I’m better for it.
- Drinking While Pregnant: An Inconvenient Truth
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/style/drinking-while-pregnant.html
Recommending that pregnant women not drink alcohol has been called old-fashioned and even patriarchal. So, as a feminist, my opinion may come as a surprise.
- The Real State of the Union, in Charts
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/opinion/trump-state-of-the-union.html
It’s not pretty. But there is one big reason for hope.
- The Helicopter Parent Descends on College Football
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/sports/college-football-signing-day.html
In the era of what some academics call “we-parenting,” is it any wonder that parents also suit up in full football uniforms for signing day?
- Racist? Fair? Biased? Asian-American Alumni Debate Elite High School Admissions
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/nyregion/nyc-specialized-high-school-test.html
When it comes to integration at New York City’s most competitive high schools, Asian-American alumni have many different reactions.
- What ‘Anna Karenina’ Taught Me About Living With Depression
A good novel can be a reminder that other people have endured tragedies, long ordeals, bad odds.
- ‘A Match Into a Can of Gasoline’: Measles Outbreak Now an Emergency in Washington State
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/us/measles-outbreak.html
Measles, believed to be largely wiped out as a public health crisis two decades ago, is affecting dozens of children.
- For Car Buyers Who Got a Lemon, State Laws Vary Widely
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/06/automobiles/car-lemon-laws-states.html
New Jersey has the best, Illinois the worst, and far too many fail consumers, according to a study from the Center for Auto Safety.
- Navigating Bureaucracy? Try Technology
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/opinion/navigating-bureaucracy-try-technology.html
From managing the government’s SNAP food-assistance program to paying parking tickets on time or using payday loans, new apps can guide low-income people through complexity.
- Official Apologizes After Blaming Childless People for Japan’s Shrinking Population
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/world/asia/japan-population-women-children.html
The country’s finance minister, Taro Aso, said he was sorry if anyone found “unpleasant” his remark that it was “problematic that people did not have enough babies.”
- Colonists Brought Death, Disease and Climate Change to the Americas, Study Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/climate/little-ice-age-colonization.html
Researchers argue that the decimation of indigenous populations set off a chain of events that contributed to a period of global cooling.
- Socially Liberal, Fiscally Conservative Voters Preferred Trump In 2016
- When Religion Leads to Trauma
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/well/mind/religion-trauma-lgbt-gay-depression-anxiety.html
Some churches “weaponize scripture and religion to do very deep damage on the psyche,” one pastor says.
- Screen Use at Bedtime May Impair Children’s Quality of Life
Using screens in a dark room was associated with worse sleep outcomes than using them with the lights on.
- Cleaner Classrooms and Rising Scores: One Program Mirrors Head Start’s Quiet Gains
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/us/politics/head-start-preschool.html
The improvements made by the country’s biggest preschool program offer a story of bipartisan progress at odds with its polarizing time.
- What Happens When Autism Becomes a Literary Device?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/books/review/autism-marie-myung-ok-lee.html
The disorder is poorly understood. Should novelists be able to make it mean whatever they want?
- Calls For Northam’s Resignation Reflect White Democrats’ Changing Attitude On Racism
- The Challenge of Managing Other People’s Pain
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/well/family/the-challenge-of-managing-other-peoples-pain.html
Why does one child cry inconsolably after a needle stick while another watches with curiosity as the shot is administered?
- The Gift of Shared Grief
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/opinion/death-grief-condolences.html
It’s hard to know what to say to people in mourning. Say something anyway.
- Japan’s Working Mothers: Record Responsibilities. Little Help from Dads
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/world/asia/japan-working-mothers.html
Men in Japan do fewer hours of housework and child care than in any of the world’s richest nations. That keeps women from getting better jobs and holds back the economy.
- He Committed Murder. Then He Graduated From an Elite Law School. Would You Hire Him as Your Attorney?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/business/bruce-reilly-murder-conviction-lawyer.html
A bipartisan consensus has taken hold: After prison, nonviolent offenders should get a second chance at normal lives. But what about someone whose criminal history — and ambitions — are more extreme?
- Woman Killed by Fire in Menstruation Hut, as Nepal Fights a Tradition
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/02/world/asia/nepal-menstruation-hut-death-chhaupadi.html
Despite a ban and efforts to educate Nepalese about a centuries-old practice of banishing menstruating women to isolated huts, the tradition stubbornly lives on.
