CCF Briefing
- $15 Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty but Cost Jobs, Congress Told in Report
- ‘If We Do This Right’ Maybe H.I.V. Will Be Forgotten
- The End of the Gay-Panic Legal Defense
- All school and no work becoming the norm for American teenagers
- Mancession revisited
- Poll: 1 in 4 don’t plan to retire despite realities of aging
- One-quarter of state prison admissions are for minor parole and probation violations, report finds
- A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases
- Americans deserve a paid vacation, should be mandatory
- ‘This doesn’t look like the best economy ever’: 40% of Americans say they still struggle to pay bills
- How employers are preparing for a gender non-binary world
- The Art of Being Single
- A Tale of Two Economies
- Acne’s Wonder Drug Is a Mental-Health Puzzle
- Why nearly 350,000 workers in mostly red states aren’t seeing wage increases, even though their local lawmakers passed them
- What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse
- Poverty: What It Is and What We’re Doing To End It
- Criminal records can be a ‘life sentence to poverty.’
- 4 tips: Covering people with disabilities
- Latest Suicide Data Show the Depth of U.S. Mental Health Crisis
- How 13 Became the Internet’s Age of Adulthood
- Suicides are at an all time high. We need hope more than ever.
- Test-Only Admissions Would Make Colleges More White, More Wealthy
- The Paternity Reveal
- The Boomers Ruined Everything
- Georgetown Study Maps Manufacturing Workforce Changes
- Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
- Has Technology Made Us Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?
- Why New York Can’t Have Nice Things It costs three times more to build a subway station here than in London or Paris. What if we could change that?
- Alone
- Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs—Why?
- Neglect of children at the border has long-term consequences
- Six facts about wealth in the United States
- Nobody Knows What to Do About L.A.’s Homelessness Crisis
- How Luxury Units Turn Into Affordable Housing
- Minimum Wage Still Can’t Pay for a Two-Bedroom Apartment Anywhere
- Does Head Start work? The debate over the Head Start Impact Study, explained
- The Sex Exercise Myth That Won’t Go Away
- Cruising in the Age of Consent
- Why mention failed Obamacare when Democrats can debate shiny new Medicare-for-all?
- Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall
- Millennials are killing alcohol. (No, really.)
- At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor
- Grow Old Like ‘The Golden Girls’
- How much should childhood crime cost? Restitution payments often linger into adulthood.
- The Persistent, Painful and Problematic Practice of Corporal Punishment in Schools
- Are McMansions Making Everyone Unhappy?
- Are traditional wedding registries a thing of the past?
- Where jobs are concentrating and why it matters to cities and regions
- Sperm donor is child’s legal father, Australian court rules
- The Evolution of Miniature ‘Safety Towns’ for Kids
- The Nonwhite Working Class
- Americans Need More Neighbors
- Why Are Zoning Laws Defining What Constitutes a Family?
- Is marriage dead?
- Euthanasia And Organ Harvesting
- Is the Religious Right Privileged?
- Mystery of the Miserable Workers, and How to Win in the Winner-Take-All Economy By NEIL IRWIN
- Can the Racial Wealth Gap Be Closed Without Speaking of Race?
- Can Dads Have It All?
- Why Housing Policy Feels Like Generational Warfare
- The Worst Patients in the World
- Marriage Facilitates Responsible Fatherhood
- Marriage equality in Taiwan is a landmark move for the rest of the world
- Fact Checker: Separating fact from fiction in abortion talking points
- How much should childhood crime cost? Restitution payments often linger into adulthood.
- $15 Minimum Wage Would Reduce Poverty but Cost Jobs, Congress Told in Report
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/us/politics/federal-minimum-wage.html
A bill that could reach a House vote next week would lift 1.3 million people out of poverty but put a similar number out of work, the Congressional Budget Office said.
- ‘If We Do This Right’ Maybe H.I.V. Will Be Forgotten
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/12/health/demetre-daskalakis-hiv-aids.html
Under Demetre Daskalakis’s tenure, New York City has lowered H.I.V. transmission rates, rolled out PrEP and removed some of the stigma associated with H.I.V. and AIDS. But his work is far from done.
- The End of the Gay-Panic Legal Defense
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-end-of-the-gay-panic-legal-defense
In June, the New York State Assembly joined six other state legislatures that have passed bills banning gay-panic and trans-panic defenses.
- All school and no work becoming the norm for American teenagers
Using data from the Current Population Survey, researchers from the Hamilton Project at Brookings explore why fewer American teenagers are holding jobs during the academic year and over the summer, and how these trends could impact the broader labor force.
- Mancession
https://twitter.com/jeannasmialek/status/1147127077541429248
Before the recession, in March 2007, the male participation rate was 18.2 percentage points higher than for women. Just 2 years later, in May 2009, that figure had plunged to 11.2 percentage points. Male employment has recovered somewhat since the recession, but to nowhere near its pre-recession highs. Meanwhile, female employment is well above its 2007 levels. The difference between the two has now narrowed to its tightest level ever — just 10.7 percentage points.
- Poll: 1 in 4 don’t plan to retire despite realities of aging
https://www.apnews.com/e38b971fb04942eab297ffc9fa7f8d01
23% of Americans in a large poll for AP said they never plan to retire, many because they feel financially unprepared.
- One-quarter of state prison admissions are for minor parole and probation violations, report finds
- A Breakthrough in the Mystery of Why Women Get So Many Autoimmune Diseases
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/06/women-autoimmune-diseases-pregnancy/591901/
Evolution might have played a trick on women’s immune systems.
- Americans deserve a paid vacation, should be mandatory
A quarter of American workers toil for employers who do not provide paid vacation or holidays.
- ‘This doesn’t look like the best economy ever’: 40% of Americans say they still struggle to pay bills
- How employers are preparing for a gender non-binary world
- The Art of Being Single
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-art-of-being-single-11553005457
Single people still face a stigma, even though their ranks have grown. Yet a new study suggests singles become happier as they age. One strategy: Focus on creating a full life now, for yourself, rather than finding a partner.
- A Tale of Two Economies
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-tale-of-two-economies-11562199595
Trump’s policies are helping workers more than Obama’s did.
- Acne’s Wonder Drug Is a Mental-Health Puzzle
Accutane is already controversial for its possible links to depression. It could also have a range of other effects.
- Why nearly 350,000 workers in mostly red states aren’t seeing wage increases, even though their local lawmakers passed them
- What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/07/case-against-marriage/591973/
The case against marriage. What if marriage is not the social good that so many believe and want it to be?
- Poverty: What It Is and What We’re Doing To End It
https://businessconnectworld.com/2019/05/13/end-of-poverty/
- Criminal records can be a ‘life sentence to poverty.’
This state is automatically sealing some.
- 4 tips: Covering people with disabilities
https://journalistsresource.org/tip-sheets/research/physical-mental-disability-journalism-tips
- Latest Suicide Data Show the Depth of U.S. Mental Health Crisis
While material well-being has improved, America’s emotional distress has climbed to crisis levels.
- How 13 Became the Internet’s Age of Adulthood
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-13-became-the-internets-age-of-adulthood-11560850201
The inside story of COPPA, a law from the early days of e-commerce that is shaping a generation and creating a parental minefield
- Suicides are at an all time high. We need hope more than ever.
- Test-Only Admissions Would Make Colleges More White, More Wealthy
A new study says that minorities would be disadvantaged if colleges only considered test scores.
- The Paternity Reveal
Fatherhood used to be a matter of faith. What changes when science makes it a matter of fact?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/01/the-paternity-reveal
- The Boomers Ruined Everything
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/boomers-are-blame-aging-america/592336/
The mistakes of the past are fast creating a crisis for younger Americans.
- Georgetown Study Maps Manufacturing Workforce Changes
https://diverseeducation.com/article/148448/
Manufacturing in the United States has declined from its heyday decades ago, but it remains a major source of good jobs in most states for people without bachelor’s degrees. Employment in agriculture, mining, and manufacturing combined fell from more than 40 percent of U.S. workers to less than 15 percent. The greatest growth in skilled-service industries was in health services, which increased from 2 percent to 14 percent. The share of workers almost tripled in educational services and in real estate, financial activities and professional and management services while nearly doubling in food, leisure, administrative and other services.
- Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/work-peak-professional-decline/590650
Here’s how to make the most of it.
- Has Technology Made Us Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid?
https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172296
- Why New York Can’t Have Nice Things It costs three times more to build a subway station here than in London or Paris. What if we could change that?
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/new-york-infrastructure-costs.html
- Alone
https://www.city-journal.org/decline-of-family-loneliness-epidemic
The decline of the family has unleashed an epidemic of loneliness.
- Teenagers Have Stopped Getting Summer Jobs—Why?
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/disappearance-of-the-summer-job/529824/
Most used to work in July and August. Now the vast majority don’t. Are they being lazy, or strategic?
- Neglect of children at the border has long-term consequences
- Six facts about wealth in the United States
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2019/06/25/six-facts-about-wealth-in-the-united-states/
There’s a lot of wealth—and a lot of debt. Only the top 20 percent has recovered from the Recession. Generational wealth inequality has intensified.
- Nobody Knows What to Do About L.A.’s Homelessness Crisis
Ahead of the first presidential debates, the nationwide squeeze on affordable housing has barely registered on the campaign trail.
- How Luxury Units Turn Into Affordable Housing
Building more high-end apartments doesn’t sound like a quick fix for the affordable housing crisis. But maybe you just have to look harder.
- Minimum Wage Still Can’t Pay for a Two-Bedroom Apartment Anywhere
The 30th anniversary edition of the National Low Income Housing Coalition report, “Out of Reach,” shows that housing affordability is getting worse, not better.
- Does Head Start work? The debate over the Head Start Impact Study, explained
- The Sex Exercise Myth That Won’t Go Away
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/06/sex-before-workouts/592294/
Many athletes are told to think about pre-workout sex all wrong.
- Cruising in the Age of Consent
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/cruising-in-the-age-of-consent/590656/
Gay men once developed codes to ensure safety in the hunt for sex. Can they help #MeToo do the same?
- Why mention failed Obamacare when Democrats can debate shiny new Medicare-for-all?
The rate of Americans without health-care insurance is now within a percentage point of where it was in the first quarter of 2008, a year before Obama took office.
- Coming Out, and Rising Up, in the Fifty Years After Stonewall
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/essay/coming-out-and-rising-up-in-the-fifty-years-after-stonewall
- Millennials are killing alcohol. (No, really.)
- At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/future-of-work-expertise-navy/590647/
These days, it seems, just about all organizations are asking their employees to do more with less. Is that actually a good idea?
- Grow Old Like ‘The Golden Girls’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/opinion/retirement-aging-golden-girls.html
We can’t all depend on adult children to stave off loneliness. College-style living — “minus the keg stands” — can help.
- How much should childhood crime cost? Restitution payments often linger into adulthood.
- The Persistent, Painful and Problematic Practice of Corporal Punishment in Schools
https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/com_corporal_punishment_final_web.pdf
One in 20 students attend a school allowing corporal punishment.
- Are McMansions Making Everyone Unhappy?
https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/06/are-mcmansions-making-everyone-unhappy/591463
Homes have gotten bigger, but Americans aren’t any more pleased with the extra space.
- Are traditional wedding registries a thing of the past?
https://www.retaildive.com/news/are-traditional-wedding-registries-a-thing-of-the-past/555967/
- Where jobs are concentrating and why it matters to cities and regions
- Sperm donor is child’s legal father, Australian court rules
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-48686216
- The Evolution of Miniature ‘Safety Towns’ for Kids
- The Nonwhite Working Class
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/black-voters-youngstown-ohio-trump-democrats.html
Talking to the people in Youngstown, Ohio, that the national media usually ignores.
- Americans Need More Neighbors
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/opinion/sunday/minneapolis-ends-single-family-zoning.html
A big idea in Minneapolis points the way for other cities desperately in need of housing.
- Why Are Zoning Laws Defining What Constitutes a Family?
It’s wrong to exclude safe uses of housing because of who belongs to a household. Like family law, zoning ordinances should prioritize functional families.
- Is marriage dead?
- Euthanasia And Organ Harvesting
https://www.wsj.com/articles/euthanasia-and-organ-harvesting-11560813360
As lawful assisted suicide spreads, some advocates call for a monstrous expansion.
- Is the Religious Right Privileged?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/opinion/religion-race-liberalism.html
The history of race and religion under liberalism is a tangle, not just a morality play.
- Mystery of the Miserable Workers, and How to Win in the Winner-Take-All Economy By NEIL IRWIN
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/upshot/how-to-win-neil-irwin.html
To adapt to a faster pace of change, it helps to learn how to crunch numbers about whole organizations — and about yourself.
- Can the Racial Wealth Gap Be Closed Without Speaking of Race?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/upshot/racial-wealth-gap-2020-candidates.html
Political momentum on the left for such an effort must face the reality of legal obstacles, particularly from the Supreme Court.
- Can Dads Have It All?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/15/opinion/sunday/fathers-day-parenting.html
Or are child-rearing norms making both parents unhappy?
- Why Housing Policy Feels Like Generational Warfare
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/why-millennials-cant-afford-buy-house/591532
In Los Angeles, it would now take 43 years to save up for a down payment. In San Francisco, 40. In Seattle and Portland, 27 and 23, respectively.
- The Worst Patients in the World
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/american-health-care-spending/590623/
Americans are hypochondriacs, yet we skip our checkups. We demand drugs we don’t need, and fail to take the ones we do.
- Marriage Facilitates Responsible Fatherhood
https://ifstudies.org/blog/marriage-facilitates-responsible-fatherhood
- Marriage equality in Taiwan is a landmark move for the rest of the world
- Fact Checker: Separating fact from fiction in abortion talking points
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/12/separating-fact-fiction-abortion-talking-points/
- How much should childhood crime cost? Restitution payments often linger into adulthood.
