CCF Briefing
- The Life and Death of a Wildly Popular Baby Sleeper
- Can London’s Knife-Crime Crisis Be Stopped?
- Want to succeed in college? Spend more time playing video games with friends.
- As Wages Rise, Black Workers See the Smallest Gains
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned.
- The digital babysitter generation
- Who does the choosing under school choice?
- Stress Tied to Heart Disease, Especially in People Under 50
- Even Brain Function Tests Can’t Tell Us How Old Is Too Old To Be President
- Flying While Trans
- The Abortion Wars, Part 1: The Last Clinic in Missouri
- Dr. Richard Green, 82, Dies; Challenged Psychiatry’s View of Homosexuality
- The Truth About Dentistry
- The Student-Debt Crisis Hits Hardest at Historically Black Colleges
- 21 more studies showing racial disparities in the criminal justice system
- Oliver Sacks: The Healing Power of Gardens
- The Abortion Wars, Part 2: The Illinois Option
- How Banning Abortion in the Early Weeks of Pregnancy Suddenly Became Mainstream
- ‘I Want What My Male Colleague Has, and That Will Cost a Few Million Dollars’
- How Much Slower Would the U.S. Grow Without Immigration? In Many Places, a Lot
- The Complexities of the Black Vote
- At Colorado, a Breach in Football’s Wall
- Preventing Hip Fractures
- Poll: Church membership in US plummets over past 20 years
- The Geography of Online Dating
- A New Civil-Rights Movement
- The Rock ‘n Play Recall: Why We Pulled Our Pick Before Fisher-Price Did
- Where Are Adults Living With Their Parents?
- Justice Dept. Declines to Defend Law Against Female Circumcision, Citing Flaws
- The Life and Death of a Wildly Popular Baby Sleeper
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-life-and-death-of-a-wildly-popular-baby-sleeper
The story of how and why the Rock ’n Play was marketed as a safe sleeper is a depressingly straightforward tale of industry muscle and bureaucratic complicity.
- Can London’s Knife-Crime Crisis Be Stopped?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/can-londons-knife-crime-crisis-be-stopped
Violence among young people in London is at its highest level in a decade. Around half of males injured by knife crimes, and half of the male perpetrators, are black and under the age of twenty-four. They also are more likely to be poor, excluded from school, and vulnerable to mental-health problems.
- Want to succeed in college? Spend more time playing video games with friends.
Social support buffers stress and helps people maintain physical and mental health.
- As Wages Rise, Black Workers See the Smallest Gains
Despite record-low unemployment, black workers’ weekly pay growth lags behind other groups
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-11555457566
About 12% of the U.S. population will rank in the top 1% for at least one year; 39% in the top 5% for at least a year; 56% in the top 10%; and 73% in the top 20%. At the same time only about 0.6% of people will stay in the top 1% for 10 consecutive years.
- D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned.
he goal was to give tenants who had previously clustered in impoverished, high-crime areas east of the Anacostia River a shot at living in more desirable neighborhoods. Many of the new tenants are previously homeless men and women who came directly from shelters or the streets, some still struggling with severe behavioral problems.
- The digital babysitter generation
https://www.axios.com/digital-babysitter-generation-f3e59625-1f6c-4398-98e1-351f728ebe59.html
Parents are relying more than ever on digital babysitters and device-led playtime to entertain their children — and the wide range of content is making it increasingly difficult to monitor what their kids are seeing.
- Who does the choosing under school choice?
In a recent, randomized controlled trial study, we assessed a common critique of school choice—that when given the option, schools discriminate against students who are perceived as harder to educate, therefore restricting certain students to lower-quality schools and consequently exacerbating educational disparities.
- Stress Tied to Heart Disease, Especially in People Under 50
Someone with a stress disorder was 37 percent more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than those in the general population.
- Even Brain Function Tests Can’t Tell Us How Old Is Too Old To Be President
- Flying While Trans
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/opinion/tsa-transgender.html
The T.S.A. subjects transgender passengers like me to humiliating and dehumanizing treatment.
- The Abortion Wars, Part 1: The Last Clinic in Missouri
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/podcasts/the-daily/abortion-missouri.html
As Missouri cracks down on abortion access, we visited the only clinic in the state that still performs the procedure.
- Dr. Richard Green, 82, Dies; Challenged Psychiatry’s View of Homosexuality
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/obituaries/dr-richard-green-dead.html
At a time when being gay was classified as a mental disorder, Dr. Green defied the advice of his colleagues and took a professional risk by arguing otherwise.
- The Truth About Dentistry
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-trouble-with-dentistry/586039
It’s much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think.
- The Student-Debt Crisis Hits Hardest at Historically Black Colleges
Long a path to financial security, traditionally African-American schools are now producing graduates who struggle with disproportionately high debt. “
- 21 more studies showing racial disparities in the criminal justice system
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- Oliver Sacks: The Healing Power of Gardens
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/sunday/oliver-sacks-gardens.html
Even for people who are deeply disabled neurologically, nature can be more powerful than any medication.
- The Abortion Wars, Part 2: The Illinois Option
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/podcasts/the-daily/abortion-illinois-missouri.html
As neighboring states move to limit abortion access, Illinois is trying to protect it. We spent a day with three women at an abortion clinic there.
- How Banning Abortion in the Early Weeks of Pregnancy Suddenly Became Mainstream
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/ohio-abortion-heartbeat-bill.html
Bans on abortion early in pregnancy used to be rare. But in the past three months, so-called heartbeat bills have passed in four states and more are in moving in 11 others.
- ‘I Want What My Male Colleague Has, and That Will Cost a Few Million Dollars’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/magazine/salk-institute-discrimination-science.html
Women at the Salk Institute say they faced a culture of marginalization and hostility. The numbers from other elite scientific institutions suggest they’re not alone.
- How Much Slower Would the U.S. Grow Without Immigration? In Many Places, a Lot
New census data shows that big cities and rural counties depend on international migration the most.
- The Complexities of the Black Vote
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/17/opinion/pete-buttigieg-black-vote.html
Alas, Pete Buttigieg isn’t Obama. No one is.
- At Colorado, a Breach in Football’s Wall
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/sports/colorado-football.html
The University of Colorado has come closer than most institutions to wrestling with an urgent question: Is running a college football program unconscionable?
- Preventing Hip Fractures
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/letters/hip-fracture.html
A doctor says these fractures can be deadly and disabling.
- Poll: Church membership in US plummets over past 20 years
https://apnews.com/f15241378057486ea437cad490a2ed67
The percentage of U.S. adults who belong to a church or other religious institution has plunged by 20 percentage points over the past two decades, hitting a low of 50% last year, according to a new Gallup poll. Among major demographic groups, the biggest drops were recorded among Democrats and Hispanics.
- The Geography of Online Dating
When looking for love, most people don’t look far from home. That’s what a big-data analysis of interactions on a dating site revealed.
- A New Civil-Rights Movement
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/opinion/voting-rights-activists.html
It’s about voting, and it is winning more than it is losing.
- The Rock ‘n Play Recall: Why We Pulled Our Pick Before Fisher-Price Did
- Where Are Adults Living With Their Parents?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/realestate/where-are-adults-living-with-their-parents.html
More adults are living with their parents, but home prices may not be the only thing driving that trend.
- Justice Dept. Declines to Defend Law Against Female Circumcision, Citing Flaws
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/us/politics/justice-department-declines-defending-laws.html
The move came soon after the department broadened its attack on the Affordable Care Act, prompting concern among critics that the Trump administration was usurping congressional power.
