CCF Briefing
- Pregnancy was overlooked by scientists for years. Now it’s finally getting the attention it deserves.
- The 11-year-old Argentine girl is not alone. Latin America’s abortion laws are a form of torture.
- The ‘heartbreaking’ decrease in black homeownership
- It turns out Americans weren’t ready to become a nation of renters. Homeownership is back in.
- New Insights Into the Poverty and Affluence Gap Among Major Racial and Ethnic Groups
- The rise of black-majority cities
- Children May Be Grown, but Parenting Doesn’t Seem to Stop
- Has job growth reached America’s struggling places?
- Medieval Diseases Are Infecting California’s Homeless
- Hundreds of Migrant Children Are Taken From Families Despite Rollback of Separation Policy
- U.K. Jails Mother for Female Genital Cutting
- ‘For Us, by Us’: Inside the New Social Spaces for People of Color
- It turns out Americans weren’t ready to become a nation of renters. Homeownership is back in.
- Moving Kids From Foster Care to Adoption
- The Industrial Revolution of Shame
- The Real Horror of the Anti-Vaxxers
- Is Anti-Semitism Exceptional?
- Where Have All the Men Without College Degrees Gone?
- Why Women Need To Network Differently Than Men To Get Ahead
- The CDC’s Gun Injury Data Is Becoming Even Less Reliable
- Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
- Uplifting Diverse Genders: Beyond “Women and Non-Binary”
- The Fight to Be a Middle-Aged Female News Anchor
- Why Mortality Makes Us Free
- Blocking Sex Ed Puts Our Children in Danger
- If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will
- Latin America Claims to Love Its Mothers. Why Does It Abuse Them?
- Rap Sheets Haunt Former Convicts. California May Change That.
- Millennials Are Putting Off Having Kids. We Already Have Two.
- The Right’s Lena Dunham Fallacy
- Why An ER Visit Can Cost So Much — Even For Those With Health Insurance
- The Tragedy of Baltimore
- Why You Want to Eat This Baby Up: It’s Science
- How to Fight Suicide
- Secular Democrats Are the New Normal
- Where Have All the Men Without College Degrees Gone?
- Welcome, Refugees. Now Pay Back Your Travel Loans
- Income Before: $18,000. After: $85,000. Does Tiny Nonprofit Hold a Key to the Middle Class?
- What’s Your Story?
- How Big Tobacco Hooked Children on Sugary Drinks
- Don’t Blame Robots for Low Wages
- Unpopular Speech in a Cold Climate
- Older Americans Are Awash in Antibiotics
- Methadone Helped Her Quit Heroin. Now She’s Suing U.S. Prisons to Allow the Treatment.
- Pregnancy was overlooked by scientists for years. Now it’s finally getting the attention it deserves.
Far less research is done into pregnancy than into much less common conditions, and basic understanding of pregnancy itself is full of gaping scientific holes.
- The 11-year-old Argentine girl is not alone. Latin America’s abortion laws are a form of torture.
- The ‘heartbreaking’ decrease in black homeownership
Racism and rollbacks in government policies are taking their toll.
- It turns out Americans weren’t ready to become a nation of renters. Homeownership is back in.
New data suggest American renters are making the leap to homeownership. What’s behind the change of heart
- New Insights Into the Poverty and Affluence Gap Among Major Racial and Ethnic Groups
immigrant status IS the characteristic that best correlates with poverty, and education the trait most associated with affluence. female-headed households can now explain about one-third of the black-white poverty difference, age comes in second at 16%, and education at 15%; all-in-all, the three characteristics can explain two-thirds of the poverty gap between blacks and whites.
- The rise of black-majority cities
https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-rise-of-black-majority-cities
The last 50 years have given rise to a large, varied class of black-majority cities—both urban and rural, both new and old. Examines the demographic trends that have shaped America’s majority-black cities and highlight the immense value they provide to the nation as a whole.
- Children May Be Grown, but Parenting Doesn’t Seem to Stop
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/13/upshot/parenting-new-norms-grown-children-extremes.html
Dad shows up at your job interview. Mom makes your medical appointments. The college bribery scandal is an extreme example of a broader pattern.
- Has job growth reached America’s struggling places?
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/03/07/has-job-growth-reached-americas-struggling-places
Despite yesterday’s weak report, the U.S. economy has now experienced more than 100 consecutive months of employment growth. However, new analysis from the Hamilton Project at Brookings highlights a stark divide in employment outcomes since the Great Recession, with struggling rural counties increasingly falling behind America’s thriving urban centers.
- Medieval Diseases Are Infecting California’s Homeless
Typhus, tuberculosis, and other illnesses are spreading quickly through camps and shelters.
- Hundreds of Migrant Children Are Taken From Families Despite Rollback of Separation Policy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/us/migrant-family-separations-border.html
President Trump officially rescinded the practice of separating migrant families at the border, yet more than 240 children have been separated since.
- U.K. Jails Mother for Female Genital Cutting
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/world/europe/uk-fgm-female-genital-mutilation-sentence.html
A Ugandan woman, the first person to be convicted of genital cutting in Britain, received an 11-year sentence, plus two more years for possession of extreme pornography.
- ‘For Us, by Us’: Inside the New Social Spaces for People of Color
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/nyregion/social-clubs-nyc-people-of-color.html
In New York City, there’s a growing movement when it comes to places to gather.
- It turns out Americans weren’t ready to become a nation of renters. Homeownership is back in.
- Moving Kids From Foster Care to Adoption
https://www.wsj.com/articles/moving-kids-from-foster-care-to-adoption-11552085962
It’s tough to find families who will take children with behavior problems, but one nonprofit has a solution.
- The Industrial Revolution of Shame
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/opinion/sunday/internet-shaming.html
Outrage is strange bait: It can feel wrong not to take it.
- The Real Horror of the Anti-Vaxxers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/opinion/sunday/the-real-horror-of-the-anti-vaxxers.html
This isn’t just a public health crisis. It’s a public sanity one.
- Is Anti-Semitism Exceptional?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/09/opinion/is-anti-semitism-exceptional.html
The inevitable decline of left-wing philo-Semitism.
- Where Have All the Men Without College Degrees Gone?
Economists are trying to understand the steady decline of non-college-educated men in the labor market.
- Why Women Need To Network Differently Than Men To Get Ahead
For women to advance professionally, they need to exploit their one true advantage—a strong female support group.
- The CDC’s Gun Injury Data Is Becoming Even Less Reliable
The CDC acknowledges its estimates are unreliable, but as it’s the nation’s premier public health agency, its figures are still widely used by researchers, journalists and the general public.
- Weekend ‘catch-up sleep’ is a lie
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/02/28/weekend-catch-up-sleep-is-lie
The negative health effects of skimping on sleep during the week can’t be reversed by marathon weekend sleep sessions, according to a sobering new study.
- Uplifting Diverse Genders: Beyond “Women and Non-Binary”
https://medium.com/@quinncrossley/uplifting-diverse-genders-beyond-women-and-non-binary-916c890f2185
- The Fight to Be a Middle-Aged Female News Anchor
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/opinion/meredith-kalodimos-age-discrimination.html
There is no fighting sexism on television without fighting age discrimination along with it.
- Why Mortality Makes Us Free
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/opinion/why-mortality-makes-us-free.html
The heart of spiritual life can not be found in nirvana or heaven, but in the mutual recognition that this life is our ultimate purpose.
- Blocking Sex Ed Puts Our Children in Danger
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/opinion/sex-ed-children-danger.html
Refusing to provide children with medically accurate information about their own sexual development isn’t ideological — it’s negligent.
- If Liberals Won’t Enforce Borders, Fascists Will
We need to make hard decisions now about what will truly benefit current and future Americans.
- Latin America Claims to Love Its Mothers. Why Does It Abuse Them?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/opinion/latin-america-obstetric-violence.html
How the region became home to an epidemic of obstetric violence.
- Rap Sheets Haunt Former Convicts. California May Change That.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/us/california-criminal-records-bill.html
A proposed law would make California the first state to automatically seal from public view the criminal records of people with misdemeanor or lower-level felony convictions.
- Millennials Are Putting Off Having Kids. We Already Have Two.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/style/the-edit-millennial-parents.html
Becoming a parent before your friends have even considered it comes with a unique set of challenges.
- The Right’s Lena Dunham Fallacy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/opinion/marriage-family-conservatives.html
Why do conservatives keep blaming liberal millennials for social decay?
- Why An ER Visit Can Cost So Much — Even For Those With Health Insurance
Costs include hidden fees, overpriced supplies and out-of-network doctors.
- The Tragedy of Baltimore
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/magazine/baltimore-tragedy-crime.html?cid=db
Since Freddie Gray’s death in 2015, violent crime has spiked to levels unseen for a quarter century. Inside the crackup of an American city.
- Why You Want to Eat This Baby Up: It’s Science
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/opinion/sunday/science-cuteness-babies.html
Researchers are beginning to ask why some people want to squeeze puppies and others want to sniff babies.
- How to Fight Suicide
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/opinion/suicide-prevention.html
Keeping folks alive is a collective task.
- Secular Democrats Are the New Normal
Instead of invoking God, O’Rourke and most other Democratic contenders identify religion as a source of division. Eight percent of white Democrats expressed no religious affiliation in 1990. By 2016, the figure was 33 percent.
- Where Have All the Men Without College Degrees Gone?
Economists are trying to understand the steady decline of non-college-educated men in the labor market.
- Welcome, Refugees. Now Pay Back Your Travel Loans
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/nyregion/refugees-travel-loans.html
Should the nonprofits involved in helping refugees resettle in the United States be acting as debt collectors?
- Income Before: $18,000. After: $85,000. Does Tiny Nonprofit Hold a Key to the Middle Class?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/business/pursuit-tech-jobs-training.html
Pursuit, a nonprofit jobs training program in Queens, is finding success at moving low-income New Yorkers into well-paying jobs.
- What’s Your Story?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/opinion/preventing-mental-illness.html
A “formulation” gathers the biological, psychological and social factors that led to a mental illness — and offers clues to the way out of suffering.
- How Big Tobacco Hooked Children on Sugary Drinks
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/health/big-tobacco-kool-aid-sugar-obesity.html
Researchers combing through archives discovered that cigarette makers had applied their marketing wizardry to sweetened beverages and turned generations of children into loyal customers.
- Don’t Blame Robots for Low Wages
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/opinion/robots-jobs.html
Progressives shouldn’t fall for facile technology fatalism.
- Unpopular Speech in a Cold Climate
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/unpopular-speech-in-a-cold-climate
What happens today if one agrees to represent an accused #MeToo villain or speaks out in defense of his due-process rights?
- Older Americans Are Awash in Antibiotics
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/health/antibiotics-elderly-risks.html
The drugs are not just overprescribed. They often pose special risks to older patients, including tendon problems, nerve damage and mental health issues.
- Methadone Helped Her Quit Heroin. Now She’s Suing U.S. Prisons to Allow the Treatment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/health/methadone-prisons-opioids.html
About to enter a federal prison, a Massachusetts woman is not permitted to continue taking the opioid as a treatment to block cravings and withdrawal from heroin addiction.
