CCF Briefing
- The $100 trillion question: What to do about wealth?
- Weeding Out Dubious Marijuana Science
- Standing Against Psychiatry’s Crazes
- Netflix and Suicide: The Disturbing Example of “13 Reasons Why”
- Dementia-Friendly Cities Prepare for an Aging Populace
- The big business of loneliness
- The End of the Line
- The future of housing looks nothing like today’s
- Why It Matters Where College Students Binge-Drink
- Is Conference Room Air Making You Dumber?
- How to Buy Baby Gear Like an Economist: A Q&A With Author Emily Oster
- Chloroform in Childbirth? Yes, Please, the Queen Said
- Doctors, Is It O.K. if We Talk About Why Finger-Wagging Isn’t Working?
- The Economy That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen: Booming Jobs, Low Inflation By NEIL IRWIN
- Where the Good Jobs Are By EDUARDO PORTER
- The Job Advice You Wish You Knew How to Give
- A medical condition or just a difference? The question roils autism community.
- For Nurses, Trauma Can Come With the Job
- What Can Be Done to Prevent Suicide?
- Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy
- Jean Vanier, Savior of People on the Margins, Dies at 90
- Most of America’s Rural Areas Are Doomed to Decline
- Nuclear No More: How the Political Family Is Changing
- Why We Won’t Use the Term ‘Natural Birth’ in NYT Parenting
- Congratulations, Meghan and Harry! (Now Here’s What to Read)
- An Extraordinary New Book Dismantles the Myths That Surround Domestic Violence
- An inconvenient truth: The road to retirement means working longer
- Blue and White Collars Don’t Fit Every Job
- Don’t Be Grateful That Dad Does His Share
- Trump Administration Seeks to Redefine Formula for Calculating Poverty
- Bye-Bye, Bathroom Attendants?
- What to Say (and Not to Say) to Someone Grieving a Suicide
- Track and Field Tries to Understand New Rules for Intersex Athletes
- Long School Commutes Are Terrible for Kids
- The Woman Who Invented the Modern Kitchen
- Baby Steps Toward Guaranteed Incomes and Racial Justice
- Handcuffed and Arrested for Not Paying a Traffic Ticket
- The $100 trillion question: What to do about wealth?
Analyzes Federal Reserve study of the distribution of wealth.
- Weeding Out Dubious Marijuana Science
https://www.wsj.com/articles/weeding-out-dubious-marijuana-science-11557090088
Researchers find ways to minimize increases in crime and traffic deaths that followed legalization.
- Standing Against Psychiatry’s Crazes
https://www.wsj.com/articles/standing-against-psychiatrys-crazes-11556920766
In 1979 Dr. Paul McHugh closed the sex-change clinic at Johns Hopkins. In the ’80s he testified against phony ‘recovered memories.’ He hasn’t given up the fight.
- Netflix and Suicide: The Disturbing Example of “13 Reasons Why”
Many studies have linked portrayals of suicide in the media to increases in the suicide rate. Why did Netflix choose to ignore this?
- Dementia-Friendly Cities Prepare for an Aging Populace
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/05/aging-dementia-friendly-baby-boomer-denver/588406
Soon, baby boomers, the country’s largest generation, will be the oldest. A new movement is helping communities prepare by learning to be dementia-friendly
- The big business of loneliness
Coworking spaces, friendship apps, and adult dorms are selling human connection.
- The End of the Line
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/01/magazine/lordstown-general-motors-plant.html
What happens to a factory town when the factory shuts down.
- The future of housing looks nothing like today’s
https://www.fastcompany.com/90342219/the-future-of-housing-looks-nothing-like-todays
After a century, Americans are choosing to live together–transforming not just the buildings we live in, but the way we live in them.
- Why It Matters Where College Students Binge-Drink
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/05/drinking-and-sexual-assault-study/588469
In preventing campus sexual assault, where students drink could be just as important as how much.
- Is Conference Room Air Making You Dumber?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/health/conference-room-air.html
A small body of evidence suggests that when it comes to decision making, indoor air may matter more than we have realized.
- How to Buy Baby Gear Like an Economist: A Q&A With Author Emily Oster
https://thewirecutter.com/blog/qa-emily-oster/
- Chloroform in Childbirth? Yes, Please, the Queen Said
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/world/europe/uk-royal-births-labor.html
Over centuries of British royal births, witnesses were in the room and a monarch helped pioneer pain relief.
- Doctors, Is It O.K. if We Talk About Why Finger-Wagging Isn’t Working?
Nobody likes to be lectured. An alternative approach, motivational interviewing, emphasizes respect for the patient’s autonomy, and works better with overweight kids.
- The Economy That Wasn’t Supposed to Happen: Booming Jobs, Low Inflation By NEIL IRWIN
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/03/upshot/unemployment-inflation-changing-economic-fundamentals.html
Maybe using data from a few decades in the middle of the 20th century to set policy in the 21st isn’t such a good idea.
- Where the Good Jobs Are By EDUARDO PORTER
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/business/economy/good-jobs-no-college-degrees.html
For people without a college degree, finding work that offers decent pay can be a challenge. The solution may require a change in scenery.
- The Job Advice You Wish You Knew How to Give
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-job-advice-you-wish-you-knew-how-to-give-11557135000
Times have changed so much that parents puzzle over how to guide their sons and daughters toward a career
- A medical condition or just a difference? The question roils autism community.
The fight causes a major divide that experts say may end up hurting research and funding.
- For Nurses, Trauma Can Come With the Job
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/well/live/for-nurses-trauma-can-come-with-the-job.html
As many as one in four nurses experience PTSD at some point in their careers.
- What Can Be Done to Prevent Suicide?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/opinion/letters/suicide-prevention.html
Readers react to an article about how suicide prevention efforts are falling short.
- Huge Racial Disparities Found in Deaths Linked to Pregnancy
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/health/pregnancy-deaths-.html
African-American, Native American and Alaska Native women are about three times more likely to die from causes related to pregnancy, compared to white women in the United States.
- Jean Vanier, Savior of People on the Margins, Dies at 90
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/obituaries/jean-vanier-dead.html
His organization, L’Arche, which ministers to people with developmental disabilities, has evolved into a worldwide movement.
- Most of America’s Rural Areas Are Doomed to Decline
Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people.
- Nuclear No More: How the Political Family Is Changing
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/us/politics/changing-family.html
Pete Buttigieg, Jacinda Ardern and others are redefining the image of a traditional politician, freeing the image of a political family in turn.
- Why We Won’t Use the Term ‘Natural Birth’ in NYT Parenting
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/parenting/natural-birth.html
It’s imprecise and can make families whose births are deemed not ‘natural’ feel shame.
- Congratulations, Meghan and Harry! (Now Here’s What to Read)
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/books/meghan-harry-baby-books.html
Sorting through the plethora of books aimed at new parents can be overwhelming. The editors of the Book Review are here to help.
- An Extraordinary New Book Dismantles the Myths That Surround Domestic Violence
In “No Visible Bruises,” Rachel Louise Snyder reports on “a global health problem of epidemic proportions,” and writes about actionable changes that can help.
- An inconvenient truth: The road to retirement means working longer
Potential retirees at the lower and middle end of the economic spectrum simply can’t afford to stop working, given the high costs of health care and housing, especially when you consider that only 1 in 3 Americans have access to retirement benefits through their employer.
- Blue and White Collars Don’t Fit Every Job
https://www.wsj.com/articles/blue-and-white-collars-dont-fit-every-job-11557090321
From retail to coding and gigs, today’s work is varied in ways politicians overlook.
- Don’t Be Grateful That Dad Does His Share
When mothers feel lucky to have any help at all, it’s an impediment to the elusive goal of equity in the home.
- Trump Administration Seeks to Redefine Formula for Calculating Poverty
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/us/politics/trump-poverty-level-proposal.html
The proposal could result in cuts in federal aid to millions of low-income Americans.
- Bye-Bye, Bathroom Attendants?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/style/bathroom-attendants.html
A profession affected by gender neutrality, changing mores and the cashless economy.
- What to Say (and Not to Say) to Someone Grieving a Suicide
Suicide can leave the survivors with anger, confusion and guilt, and even well-intentioned words can cause pain.
- Track and Field Tries to Understand New Rules for Intersex Athletes
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/sports/semenya-xy-chromosomes.html
The new regulations go into effect Wednesday and focus on a narrow subset of the female population with male-patterned chromosomes.
- Long School Commutes Are Terrible for Kids
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/05/high-school-commute-drive-sleep-exercise-children-teens/588850/
Children who live farther away from their schools get significantly less sleep and exercise, new research shows.
- The Woman Who Invented the Modern Kitchen
There are “dream kitchens,” and then there’s the Frankfurt Kitchen, designed by architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in 1926.
- Baby Steps Toward Guaranteed Incomes and Racial Justice
In Mississippi, a pilot project to distribute incomes to poverty-stricken single African-American mothers shows the plausibility of a more equal America.
- Handcuffed and Arrested for Not Paying a Traffic Ticket
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/nyregion/suspending-licenses-minor-offense-money.html
How a moving violation becomes a suspended license becomes a criminal record, which becomes a moneymaker. And how lawmakers want to change that.
