CCF Briefing
- What’s Life Like as a Student at U.S.C.? Depends on the Size of the Bank Account.
- Short of Workers, U.S. Builders and Farmers Crave More Immigrants
- America’s Biggest Economic Challenge May Be Demographic Decline
- What Is Hard About Being a Boy?
- The Joe Biden Media Frenzy
- ‘Why Aren’t Democrats Winning the Hispanic Vote 80-20 or 90-10?’
- How to cut child poverty in half
- Why Videogames Trigger the Nightly Meltdown—and How to Help Your Child Cope
- Why Can’t We Close the Racial Wealth Gap?
- Brunei Introduces Death Penalty for Gay Sex, Adultery and Blasphemy
- Parenting in the Time of Measles
- Scientists Thought They Had Measles Cornered. They Were Wrong.
- Is Being Trans Like Being an Immigrant?
- We Fled the Gangs in Honduras. Then the U.S. Government Detained My Baby.
- Our Organ Donation System Is Unfair. The Solution Might Be Too.
- It’s time to ‘unsex’ pregnancy
- I Followed My Father Into the Marines. But It Was Different for a Woman.
- Manufacturing Surge, a Boon for Trump, May Be Fading
- The Neighborhoods Where Housing Costs Devour Budgets
- The Troubling Limits of the ‘Great Crime Decline’
- What Happens to Community Bonds When a Neighborhood Gentrifies
- They Had It Coming
- Pay Gap for Men and Women Grew at Many British Employers, Report Shows
- Critics to Biden: You’re Missing the Point
- A Brief History of the 25-Year Debate Over the Violence Against Women Act
- Why Don’t Americans Hold the Military Accountable for its Many Failures?
- The Happiness Recession
- Millennials Are Sick of Drinking
- Is the continued rise of older Americans in the workforce necessary for future growth?
- How Domestic Workers Enable Well-Off Women to Prosper
- Mormon Church Changes L.G.B.T. Policy, but Those Who Left Say This Isn’t Enough
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fortnite
- When parents are so desperate to get their kids into college that they sabotage other students
- The Wedding-Industry Bonanza, on Full Display
- The Mystery of Marriage
- What’s Life Like as a Student at U.S.C.? Depends on the Size of the Bank Account.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/usc-admissions-scandal-students.html
As U.S.C. has fought to attract low-income students, the campus has become a vivid microcosm of the economic disparities in Los Angeles.
- Short of Workers, U.S. Builders and Farmers Crave More Immigrants
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/business/economy/immigration-labor-economy.html
As a tight labor market raises costs, employers say the need for low-wage help can’t be met by the declining ranks of the native-born.
- America’s Biggest Economic Challenge May Be Demographic Decline
Slower growth in the working-age population is a problem in much of the country. Could targeted immigration policy help solve it?
- What Is Hard About Being a Boy?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/learning/what-is-hard-about-being-a-boy.html
How are expectations for boys and girls different?
- The Joe Biden Media Frenzy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/opinion/joe-biden-media.html
Once again, journalists are giving in to their own worst instincts.
- ‘Why Aren’t Democrats Winning the Hispanic Vote 80-20 or 90-10?’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/opinion/latino-voters.html
It’s the question that may decide the 2020 elections — and the future of the Democratic Party.
- How to cut child poverty in half
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/how-to-cut-child-poverty-in-half/
Ron Haskins and Timothy Smeeding, who both served on a committee tasked by Congress to reduce child poverty in the United States, share an overview of different policy packages that would alleviate child poverty and the associated costs to society.
- Why Videogames Trigger the Nightly Meltdown—and How to Help Your Child Cope
Just because it’s hard for your kids to put down the game controllers doesn’t mean they’re addicts. Here’s what happens in their brains the second after the game shuts off
- Why Can’t We Close the Racial Wealth Gap?
A new study says that income inequality, not historic factors, feeds the present-day gulf in wealth between white and black households.
- Brunei Introduces Death Penalty for Gay Sex, Adultery and Blasphemy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/world/asia/brunei-law-gay-death-penalty.html
Harsh punishments based on a version of Shariah, or Islamic law, which also include amputations and whippings, have prompted an international outcry.
- Parenting in the Time of Measles
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/opinion/parenting-vaccines-measles.html
As many as half of the home-schooled kids I encounter are not vaccinated.
- Scientists Thought They Had Measles Cornered. They Were Wrong.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/health/measles-outbreaks-ukraine-israel.html
Following intensive vaccination efforts, measles cases plunged across the world. Now clusters of new infections — some linked, some not — have confounded health officials.
- Is Being Trans Like Being an Immigrant?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/opinion/is-being-trans-like-being-an-immigrant.html
Both involve a journey. And both are under assault by this administration.
- We Fled the Gangs in Honduras. Then the U.S. Government Detained My Baby.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/opinion/border-honduras-separation-gangs.html
I still don’t know where or in whose care my daughter was when we were apart. She’s still traumatized.
- Our Organ Donation System Is Unfair. The Solution Might Be Too.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-organ-donation-system-is-unfair-the-solution-might-be-too/
At any given time, there are about 13,000 people waiting for a liver transplant in the United States. Each year, about 8,000 people will get a donated liver.
- It’s time to ‘unsex’ pregnancy
Social expectations and roles are set not just after a family has been formed, but before — during pregnancy.
- I Followed My Father Into the Marines. But It Was Different for a Woman.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/magazine/marine-corps-sexual-harassment.html
I faced constant sexual harassment in the corps. It was a side of the military neither of us wanted to see.
- Manufacturing Surge, a Boon for Trump, May Be Fading
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/business/economy-manufacturing-jobs-trump.html
American manufacturers have added jobs for 19 straight months, a streak that could extend to 20 on Friday. But there are signs the growth is slowing.
- The Neighborhoods Where Housing Costs Devour Budgets
A significant chunk of Americans spend more than half their incomes on rent or home mortgage payments. Here’s data on the severely housing-burdened.
- The Troubling Limits of the ‘Great Crime Decline’
The fall of urban violence since the 1990s was a public health breakthrough, as NYU sociologist Patrick Sharkey says in his book Uneasy Peace. But we must go further.
- What Happens to Community Bonds When a Neighborhood Gentrifies
A study of demographic changes in Philadelphia neighborhoods finds that an influx of more-affluent newcomers can erode community ties—or strengthen them.
- They Had It Coming
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals/586468/
The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs.
- Pay Gap for Men and Women Grew at Many British Employers, Report Shows
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/business/uk-gender-pay-gap.html
Some thought that forcing disclosure would shame companies into action. But the divide has widened at about 40 percent of them since last year’s data.
- Critics to Biden: You’re Missing the Point
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/us/joe-biden-women-video.html
Joe Biden says he will be “more mindful” of personal space because of changing “social norms.” But some of his accusers say it’s not norms that have changed, it’s the conversation.
- A Brief History of the 25-Year Debate Over the Violence Against Women Act
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/04/us/violence-against-women-act-reauthorization.html
For a quarter-century, supporters and detractors have argued over the law, which is aimed at protecting victims of domestic abuse.
- Why Don’t Americans Hold the Military Accountable for its Many Failures?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/magazine/military-public-support-confidence.html
- The Happiness Recession
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/happiness-recession-causing-sex-depression/586405
Today’s young adults are replacing church and marriage with friendships. But there’s one thing for which they have no substitute.
- Millennials Are Sick of Drinking
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/04/millennials-sober-sick-of-drinking/586186
But they’re not giving up booze just yet.
- Is the continued rise of older Americans in the workforce necessary for future growth?
Though the overall U.S. labor force participation rate has declined over the last decade, the aging of the American population is not entirely to blame. Lauren Bauer, Patrick Liu, and Jay Shambaugh find that workers over the age of 55 are actually working at higher rates than earlier generations, while young people—particularly young men—are driving the rate down.
- How Domestic Workers Enable Well-Off Women to Prosper
In her new book, Women’s Work, the journalist Megan Stack grapples with how she’s been able to advance in her career at the expense of other women’s labor.
- Mormon Church Changes L.G.B.T. Policy, but Those Who Left Say This Isn’t Enough
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/reader-center/mormon-church-lgbt.html
Times readers who described themselves as Mormon or were raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reflected on the news that it would allow children of same-sex couples to be baptized.
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Fortnite
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/opinion/sunday/fortnite-social-play-children.html
Don’t think of it as an evil video game. Think of it as a rowdy block party.
- When parents are so desperate to get their kids into college that they sabotage other students
- The Wedding-Industry Bonanza, on Full Display
Young couples attend wedding expos to plan their big day—and quickly learn the steep price of a perfect wedding.
- The Mystery of Marriage
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/the-mystery-of-marriage/395234
A new book is a cultural scrapbook on the resilience of a fraught institution.
