CCF Briefing
- You Are Not as Good at Kissing as You Think. But You Are Better at Dancing.
- Why Do We All Have to Be Beautiful?
- How Old Is 37? Depends on Your Gender
- The Con of the Side Hustle
- Judge rules New York county can’t ban unvaccinated children from schools, parks
- You’re out of prison. Now you have to get your driver’s license back.
- Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem.
- Bills in California and Washington Address Homeless College Students
- How Families With Kids Drive Suburban Segregation
- Who Belongs in Prison?
- Disparities at state flagships
- Research says septuagenarians struggle with new tasks. That’s bad news for several 2020 candidates.
- 21 more studies showing racial disparities in the criminal justice system
- ‘Equal Death Day’: May 3, 2030
- Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem.
- Bills in California and Washington Address Homeless College Students
- How Families With Kids Drive Suburban Segregation
- The Supreme Court didn’t ban corporal punishment. Local democracy did.
- Which Is Riskier, Prostitution or Investing?
- She Was Forced to Marry in Bangladesh. In Brooklyn, She Made Her Escape.
- Do You Push Your Parents’ Buttons?
- Living Near a Major Highway Tied to Developmental Delays in Children
- What Every Woman Knows About the Internet
- Making Babies in the Year 2045
- You Are Not as Good at Kissing as You Think. But You Are Better at Dancing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/overconfidence-men-women.html
We overestimate and underestimate our abilities in weird ways.
- Why Do We All Have to Be Beautiful?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/women-beauty.html
The message of inclusivity is meant to be helpful, but it can actually do harm.
- How Old Is 37? Depends on Your Gender
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/age-women-men-2020.html
Kirsten Gillibrand, Pete Buttigieg and the fresh-face fallacy.
- The Con of the Side Hustle
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/06/opinion/sunday/tax-day-side-hustle.html
The language portraying second jobs as liberating or glamorous masks the reality of the insecure working lives of many Americans.
- Judge rules New York county can’t ban unvaccinated children from schools, parks
- You’re out of prison. Now you have to get your driver’s license back.
Fines and fees are a high hurdle for job-seeking ex-offenders
- Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/upshot/trump-america-full-or-emptying.html
An aging population and a declining birthrate among the native-born population mean a shrinking work force in many areas.
- Bills in California and Washington Address Homeless College Students
More low-income students, some homeless, now enroll in college than middle-income ones. New legislation in California and Washington state aims to help them.
- How Families With Kids Drive Suburban Segregation
The old divide between family-friendly suburbs and childless city living is fading. The new divide is within the suburbs themselves.
- Who Belongs in Prison?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/15/who-belongs-in-prison
A truly just system must do more than protect the rights of the innocent; it must also respect the humanity of the guilty.
- Disparities at state flagships
https://hechingerreport.org/disparities-state-flagships/
An interactive look at how many African-American and Latino high schoolers make it to their state’s main college or university
- Research says septuagenarians struggle with new tasks. That’s bad news for several 2020 candidates.
When it comes to reasoning, memory, cognitive speed, multitasking and ability to learn, older people often fare worse.
- 21 more studies showing racial disparities in the criminal justice system
- ‘Equal Death Day’: May 3, 2030
https://www.wsj.com/articles/equal-death-day-may-30-2030-11554763002
Another unequal fact of life: Men are more likely to be killed on the job.
- Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/upshot/trump-america-full-or-emptying.html
An aging population and a declining birthrate among the native-born population mean a shrinking work force in many areas.
- Bills in California and Washington Address Homeless College Students
More low-income students, some homeless, now enroll in college than middle-income ones. New legislation in California and Washington state aims to help them.
- How Families With Kids Drive Suburban Segregation
The old divide between family-friendly suburbs and childless city living is fading. The new divide is within the suburbs themselves.
- The Supreme Court didn’t ban corporal punishment. Local democracy did.
Corporal punishment in public schools remains formally legal in 19 states; in at least three of them — Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas — a majority of schools still report using it. But in most of the United States, evolving social mores have led to its de facto abolition.
- Which Is Riskier, Prostitution or Investing?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/business/prostitution-or-investing-risk.html
An intriguing new book by an economist who writes a column for Quartz discusses ways of reducing risk in many walks of life, our reviewer says.
- She Was Forced to Marry in Bangladesh. In Brooklyn, She Made Her Escape.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/nyregion/muslim-abuse-womens-shelter.html
For Muslim immigrants desperate to flee their abusers, there are almost no safe options. A community in Brooklyn organized to change that.
- Do You Push Your Parents’ Buttons?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/learning/do-you-push-your-parents-buttons.html
What are the things you do that drive your parents crazy? How can parents and teenagers work to better handle these situations?
- Living Near a Major Highway Tied to Developmental Delays in Children
Exposure to air pollution could be a factor, experts suggest.
- What Every Woman Knows About the Internet
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/privacy-feminism.html
The digital world is not designed to keep women safe. New regulations should be.
- Making Babies in the Year 2045
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/opinion/genetic-testing-privacy.html
Huge pools of health data collected over the past generation allow you to pick many of your child’s genetic traits. Are you comfortable with that?
