CCF Briefing
This will be the last CCF Briefing until the week of July 8th.
- What a ‘Living Wage’ Actually Means
- Savings Accounts for Disabled Americans Catch On, but Slowly
- Death of Teenager Who Sought Euthanasia Sets Off Media Flurry, and Corrections
- Police Are Trained to Confront Suspects. But What if They Are Afraid?
- For These Women, a FIRE That Burns Too Male and Too White
- ‘Although My Indian Identity Isn’t Simple, It’s Mine’: Readers on Adoption That Crosses Cultural Lines
- Trading the Noisy Gay Bar Scene for the Knitting Circle
- What Is the Hyde Amendment? A Look at Its Impact and History
- Few Talked About Race at This School. Then a Student Posted a Racist Slur.
- Report Highlights Racial Disparities in Student Debt
- An Officer Murdered a Woman in an On-Duty Shooting. But What Price Will He Pay?
- A High-School Porn Star’s Cry for Help
- Parents Gone Wild: High Drama Inside D.C.’s Most Elite Private School
- When Grown-Ups Get Caught in Teens’ AirDrop Crossfire
- A Little Life: The Great Gay Novel Might Be Here
- Queering the Work of Jane Austen Is Nothing New
- A Generation of Stars Working Out Queerness in Their Songs
- The Queer Coming-of-Age Movie Arrives
- Parenthood Is Still Uneven, but an Hour a Day Could Help
- Spying on Children Won’t Keep Them Safe
- California’s Vaccination Rate Slips as Medical Exemptions Rise
- The Elderly Are Getting Complex Surgeries. Often It Doesn’t End Well.
- The Role of Men in the Debate Over Abortion
- Parenting for Whom?
- An Epidemic of Violence We Never Discuss
- A Suicide Attempt, an Order to Keep Silent: A U.S. Agency Mishandled Sex-Abuse Claims
- The Real Difference Between Cheap and Pricey Beauty Products
- The Long Road to the Student Debt Crisis
- Americans’ views flipped on gay rights. How did minds change so quickly?
- Politicians Draw Clear Lines on Abortion. Their Parties Are Not So Unified.
- New Generation of Student Activists Has a Message for Colleges: Do Better
- Profiting from prison
- We should be talking about ways to end abortion
34. What the World’s Most Sociable People Reveal About Friendliness - The Myth That Babies Look More Like Their Dads
- Men are in trouble. ‘Incels’ are proof.
- San Francisco plans to force mentally ill addicts into a system critics call ripe for abuses
- Nearly half of millennials turn to gig economy to earn more cash
- Segregated by Design
- Where a Census Undercount Will Hurt (or Help) Most
- HOAs Are Popular Where Prejudice Is Strong and Government Is Weak
- Life Expectancy Is Associated With Segregation in U.S. Cities
- Inside the Fight to Define Extreme Poverty in America
- Remembering George Tiller and his vital legacy in American abortion history
- How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars
- How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America
- Cocaine use is on the rise
- Inside the economics of illegal drugs, from cryptocurrencies to Major League Baseball
- Meth: What reporters should know
- Safe Space or Police State: How Far Should You Go in Monitoring Your Kids Online?
- Universities that are recruiting older students often leave them floundering
- College Degree Widens the Gender Gap
- Smash the Wellness Industry
- Two Women, Divided by Opportunity
- What a ‘Living Wage’ Actually Means
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/smarter-living/what-a-living-wage-actually-means.html
If you ask a dozen lawmakers what constitutes a “living wage,” you’ll get a dozen answers. Where does the term come from? And is it even accurate?
- Savings Accounts for Disabled Americans Catch On, but Slowly
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/your-money/able-accounts-savings-disabled.html
Advocates say the state-based accounts, which let disabled people work and save money without risking the loss of government aid, could help millions of people.
- Death of Teenager Who Sought Euthanasia Sets Off Media Flurry, and Corrections
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/06/world/europe/noa-pothoven-instagram-euthanasia.html
The Dutch case of Noa Pothoven, 17, who had written about being a rape victim and her experience with mental illness, ricocheted around the globe. But initial stories got it wrong.
- Police Are Trained to Confront Suspects. But What if They Are Afraid?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/parkland-police-bravery-coward.html
For police officers, bravery is part of the job description. But how much risk do we expect law enforcement to take on?
- For These Women, a FIRE That Burns Too Male and Too White
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/business/fire-women-retire-early.html
Fed up with the bro-heavy archetype of the FIRE trend (“financial independence, retire early”), women are carving out their own niche in the frugal-living movement.
- ‘Although My Indian Identity Isn’t Simple, It’s Mine’: Readers on Adoption That Crosses Cultural Lines
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/reader-center/adoption-cross-cultural.html
Adoptive parents and adoptees share what they have learned based on experiences in their own families.
- Trading the Noisy Gay Bar Scene for the Knitting Circle
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/nyregion/knitting-gay-men.html
Many gay men in New York are looking for alternative ways to socialize. A look at the surprising revival of the knitting circle.
- What Is the Hyde Amendment? A Look at Its Impact and History
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/politics/hyde-amendment-abortion.html
For years, repealing the amendment was not part of the political conversation at all. But now, almost every Democratic presidential candidate is calling for it.
- Few Talked About Race at This School. Then a Student Posted a Racist Slur.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/school-racism-students.html
When white students at a Minnesota school posted a slur to Snapchat, black classmates demanded action. Their efforts led to uncomfortable conversations about race.
- Report Highlights Racial Disparities in Student Debt
The typical white male borrower, for instance, has paid off 44 percent of his student loan debt within 12 years of graduating, while the typical black female borrower has actually seen her balance grow by 13 percent.
- An Officer Murdered a Woman in an On-Duty Shooting. But What Price Will He Pay?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/minneapolis-police-sentencing-mohamed-noor.html
In rare cases when police officers are convicted in on-duty shootings, sentences have often been less severe than they might have been.
- A High-School Porn Star’s Cry for Help
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/high-school-porn-stars-cry-help/590986
When did we lose the ability to interpret the signs of a girl in bad trouble?
- Parents Gone Wild: High Drama Inside D.C.’s Most Elite Private School
At Sidwell Friends, the high school of Chelsea Clinton and the Obama children, college counselors find themselves besieged by Ivy-obsessed families.
- When Grown-Ups Get Caught in Teens’ AirDrop Crossfire
Anytime young people get together, the pics start flowing.
- A Little Life: The Great Gay Novel Might Be Here
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/05/a-little-life-definitive-gay-novel/394436/
Hanya Yanagihara’s novel is an astonishing and ambitious chronicle of queer life in America.
- Queering the Work of Jane Austen Is Nothing New
Starting in the Victorian era, stage performers and writers have been subverting the novelist’s reputation as the go-to author for conventional, heterosexual love.
- A Generation of Stars Working Out Queerness in Their Songs
Distinctive new albums from Steve Lacy and Tyler, the Creator, seem to build on the example set by Frank Ocean.
- The Queer Coming-of-Age Movie Arrives
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/12/the-queer-coming-of-age-movie-arrives/573925
Movies like Boy Erased and Love, Simon show gay teens undergoing rites of passages that upend the classic Breakfast Club script.
- Parenthood Is Still Uneven, but an Hour a Day Could Help
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/parents-fathers-role.html
Men need to spend at least 50 more minutes a day on domestic duties — and women, 50 minutes less — a new report finds.
- Spying on Children Won’t Keep Them Safe
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/opinion/lockport-facial-recognition-schools.html
This week my daughter’s school became the first in the nation to pilot facial-recognition software. The technology’s potential is chilling.
- California’s Vaccination Rate Slips as Medical Exemptions Rise
https://www.wired.com/story/californias-vaccination-rate-slips-as-medical-exemptions-rise/
Five years ago, just 0.2 percent of California students received a permanent medical exemption, while 2.5 percent claimed a personal belief exemption, or PBE. Since the PBE’s elimination, permanent medical exemption (PME) rates have begun to climb, from 0.7 percent to 0.9 percent for the past year.
- The Elderly Are Getting Complex Surgeries. Often It Doesn’t End Well.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/health/elderly-surgery-complications.html
Complication rates are high among the oldest patients. Now a surgeons’ group will propose standards for hospitals operating on the elderly.
- The Role of Men in the Debate Over Abortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/opinion/letters/abortion-men.html
“Men get off scot-free,” writes a woman. Men should be excused from supporting a child a woman chooses to have against his wishes, writes a man.
- Parenting for Whom?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/opinion/letters/parenting-children.html
A reader takes an Op-Ed writer to task for a parent-centric, not child-centric, model.
- An Epidemic of Violence We Never Discuss
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/books/review/rachel-louise-snyder-no-visible-bruises.html
Rachel Louise Snyder’s “No Visible Bruises” recounts the horror of domestic violence in all its forms and argues for a more systematic approach to this abuse.
- A Suicide Attempt, an Order to Keep Silent: A U.S. Agency Mishandled Sex-Abuse Claims
The Indian Health Service discouraged employees from alerting law enforcement when they suspected coworkers of sexual misconduct with Native American youngsters. “Do not contact anybody,” a manager ordered.
- The Real Difference Between Cheap and Pricey Beauty Products
With a new influx of skin care products at extreme price points, the psychology of why we buy what we buy has never been more complex. A peek into the mind-vanity connection.
- The Long Road to the Student Debt Crisis
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-long-road-to-the-student-debt-crisis-11559923730
A series of well-intentioned government decisions since the 1960s has left us with today’s out-of-control higher education market.
- Americans’ views flipped on gay rights. How did minds change so quickly?
- Politicians Draw Clear Lines on Abortion. Their Parties Are Not So Unified.
It’s one of the most polarizing issues in America, and a political litmus test. But surveys find many voters struggle with its ethical and moral perplexities.
- New Generation of Student Activists Has a Message for Colleges: Do Better
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/us/college-protests-dobetter.html
Protesters of sexual assault across the country have focused on their schools, using similar tactics and winning major concessions.
- Profiting from prison
https://www.axios.com/profiting-prison-c2bd43b2-4b2f-44ee-8f23-c6c9a14c1aaa.html
How companies make money: phone calls, medical care, food and transportation services, clothes and toiletries. Also see:
- By the numbers: U.S. incarceration and spending
- The states where private prisons are thriving
- Ending cash bail
- Prisons thrive on poverty
- The war on drugs anchors prison profits
- How companies profit from immigrant detention
- The prison labor you benefit from
- We should be talking about ways to end abortion
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-should-be-talking-about-ways-to-end-abortion/2019/06/07/7724bc78-896a-11e9-98c1-e945ae5db8fb_story.html
Shouldn’t we dedicate more effort to tackling unplanned pregnancy?
- What the World’s Most Sociable People Reveal About Friendliness
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/06/williams-syndrome-and-human-evolution/590797
Researchers are turning to a rare genetic condition to explore the mysterious origins of human cooperation.
- The Myth That Babies Look More Like Their Dads
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/06/do-babies-look-more-like-their-dads/590923
People love to point out that infants resemble their fathers, even when they don’t.
- Men are in trouble. ‘Incels’ are proof.
The incel phenomenon is a predictable endpoint for a culture that increasingly uses sex as a marker of success, while at the same time losing human connection and substituting the Internet in its stead.
- San Francisco plans to force mentally ill addicts into a system critics call ripe for abuses
- Nearly half of millennials turn to gig economy to earn more cash
Side hustles go well beyond Uber or Lyft: People with a few spare hours can walk dogs, give cooking classes or sell their artwork.
- Segregated by Design
https://aeon.co/videos/black-ghettos-are-no-accident-how-state-sponsored-racism-shaped-us-cities
Black ghettos are no accident – how state-sponsored racism shaped US cities
- Where a Census Undercount Will Hurt (or Help) Most
A 2020 Census that favors white and Republican-leaning districts—and undercounts younger, lower income, and black and Hispanic residents—seems ever more likely.
- HOAs Are Popular Where Prejudice Is Strong and Government Is Weak
A new study finds that higher percentages of wealthy, Asian, and white residents live in HOAs; and people pay a premium of about 4 percent for homes in HOAs.
- Life Expectancy Is Associated With Segregation in U.S. Cities
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/06/segregation-life-expectancy-study-research-racism-map/591028/
One’s neighborhood shapes your odds of seeing your grandchildren grow up
- Inside the Fight to Define Extreme Poverty in America
https://slate.com/business/2019/06/2-dollars-a-day-poverty-america-research.html
How many Americans live on $2 a day? An ongoing debate just got more complicated.
- Remembering George Tiller and his vital legacy in American abortion history
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/31/george-tiller-doctor-kansas-abortion
The Kansas doctor, murdered 10 years ago by an anti-abortion zealot, was a true pioneer who developed unique ways to care for women
- How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars
While the eugenics and abortion movements may have disquieting intersections, the notion that abortion rights are the direct heir to our history of eugenic sterilization is unfounded.
- How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America
The playful inventor of the Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz faced a challenge: write a page-turner that restrained itself to a few hundred real, mostly monosyllabic words.
- Cocaine use is on the rise
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/public-health/cocaine-research-fentanyl-overdose
Amid the United States’ heavily documented opioid crisis, the nation is dealing with another, lesser known rise in substance use. In recent years, national rates of cocaine use have steadily climbed.
- Inside the economics of illegal drugs, from cryptocurrencies to Major League Baseball
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/economics/economics-illegal-drugs
- Meth: What reporters should know
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/drug-policy/methamphetamine-crystal-meth-drugs
Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that from 2011 to 2016, the number of yearly drug overdose deaths involving methamphetamine more than tripled, jumping from 1,887 to 6,762 (yearly opioid-related overdose deaths are an order of magnitude greater).
- Safe Space or Police State: How Far Should You Go in Monitoring Your Kids Online?
No schoolwork equals more screen time; The Dos and Don’ts of surveilling your kids’ devices
- Universities that are recruiting older students often leave them floundering
Students 25 and older juggle jobs, kids and bills without support many say they need
- College Degree Widens the Gender Gap
Among the Educated, Women Earn 74 Cents for Every Dollar Men Make
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/05/college-degree-widens-gender-earnings-gap.html
More education leads to higher earnings but the gender pay gap is wider among men and women with a bachelor’s degree than among those without.
- Smash the Wellness Industry
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/08/opinion/sunday/women-dieting-wellness.html
Why are so many smart women falling for its harmful, pseudoscientific claims?
- Two Women, Divided by Opportunity
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/opinion/women-guatemala.html
Circumstances of birth may be a lottery, but we all have a responsibility to level the playing field for the underprivileged.
