CCF Briefing
- Laboratories of democracy: what Seattle learned from having the highest minimum wage in the nation
- How Illinois Became an Abortion-Rights Haven
- The cost of bail for immigrants is surging
- Domestic Violence Needs Criminal Justice Reform, Too
- Who Still Calls it a ‘Glass Ceiling?’ Not the 6 Women Running for President
- U.S. Couple Sues State Dept. Over Policy Denying Their Baby Citizenship
- Why there’s a decline in US teen employment
- What the research says about white supremacy
- An Epidemic of Disbelief
- Step Away From the Healing Crystals
- What It Means to Be a Bad Mom
- Restoring the Marriage Ecosystem
- The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs
- THE INCREDIBLE SUCCESS STORY BEHIND ONE COUNTY’S PLUMMETING DIVORCE RATE SHOULD INSPIRE US ALL
- Here’s Why We’ve Failed to Figure Out Why Infrastructure Costs So Much
- Has College Gotten Too Easy?
- Why disabled Americans remain second-class citizens
- The Al Franken Case
- A Slow-Moving Storm: Why Demographic Changes Mean Tough Challenges for College Leaders
- What’s happening in ‘Orange Is the New Black’ is happening to real women behind bars
- WHAT’S NEXT FOR WEDDINGS: PHONE-FREE MOMENTS AND FAR-FLUNG LOCALES
- An Appeal for a Grade Change, a Lifetime Later
- In Politics, Apologies Are for Losers
- At a Clinic Threatened by Trump’s Rules, She Asks, ‘Why Attack Women?’
- It’s Not Just a Chemical Imbalance
- Breaking a Mexican Tradition That Excludes Women, to Keep It Alive in Brooklyn
- This Is an Article About Women
- The ‘Glass Ceiling’ Is Tired. Women Are ‘Reinventing the Game.’
- What to Know When Choosing Cremation
- Where I Find Romance in Marriage
- Doctors in Debt: These Physicians Gladly Struck a Deal With California
- The Best (and Worst) Places to Retire
- What Americans Know About Religion — And What They Don’t
- You Are What You Watch? The Social Effects of TV
- Jeffrey Epstein, R. Kelly and a Change in How Prosecutors Look at Sexual Assault
- Need a Mental Health Day? Some States Give Students the Option
- The Fight Over Planned Parenthood’s Future
- When Grandparents Help Hold It All Together
- Saudi Guardianship Laws Could Be Set to Change. Here’s How Women Are Reacting.
- A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Abandoned in the Night Woods
- Laboratories of democracy: what Seattle learned from having the highest minimum wage in the nation
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/7/13/20690266/seattle-minimum-wage-15-dollars
The city adopted a $15 minimum wage four years ago. Here’s what happened.
- How Illinois Became an Abortion-Rights Haven
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/how-illinois-became-an-abortion-rights-haven
- The cost of bail for immigrants is surging
- Domestic Violence Needs Criminal Justice Reform, Too
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/opinion/domestic-violence-criminal-justice-reform-too.html
The criminal justice system isn’t stopping intimate partner violence. It might be making it worse.
- Who Still Calls it a ‘Glass Ceiling?’ Not the 6 Women Running for President
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/politics/glass-ceiling-female-candidates-2020.html
‘Shake the table.’ ‘Break things.’ ‘Persist.’ These are the metaphors of a new generation of political candidates.
- U.S. Couple Sues State Dept. Over Policy Denying Their Baby Citizenship
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/state-department-assisted-reproductive-citizenship.html
An American couple’s daughter, who was born abroad with the help of a surrogate, was denied citizenship. Her parents, two gay men, are suing for discrimination.
- Why there’s a decline in US teen employment
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/economics/jobs/minimum-wage-teen-employment-decline
A new study explores three factors that help explain the decades-long decline in U.S. teen employment: minimum-wage increases, higher wages resulting from finishing high school and a higher share of “low-skilled” immigrants from Spanish-speaking regions, who, according to the authors, tend to compete for similar jobs.
- What the research says about white supremacy
https://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/race-society/white-supremacy-research-cyber-racism
We’ve gathered and summarized a sampling of studies that look at white supremacy and right-wing organizations from multiple angles, including their online strategies for spreading hate and how they use genetic ancestry tests.
- An Epidemic of Disbelief
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/08/an-epidemic-of-disbelief/592807
What new research reveals about sexual predators, and why police fail to catch them.
- Step Away From the Healing Crystals
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/parenting/natural-parenting-alternative-medicine.html
Parents are turning to alternative medicine for understandable reasons, but a healthy dose of skepticism can go a long way.
- What It Means to Be a Bad Mom
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/07/sharon-lambs-not-good-enough-mother/594502/
Inside the mind of a psychologist who helps determine whether parents are “good enough” to keep their children
- Restoring the Marriage Ecosystem
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2019/08/12/restoring-the-marriage-ecosystem/
Discusses the economic, social, and cultural factors that have contributed to a weakening of the institution of marriage.
- The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/hottest-chat-app-teens-google-docs/584857
How a writing tool became the new default way to pass notes in class
- THE INCREDIBLE SUCCESS STORY BEHIND ONE COUNTY’S PLUMMETING DIVORCE RATE SHOULD INSPIRE US ALL
Divorce rates in Duval County, Florida—which includes the fourth-biggest city in the state, Jacksonville—experienced a stunning 28 percent plunge between 2015 and 2017
- Here’s Why We’ve Failed to Figure Out Why Infrastructure Costs So Much
Why are U.S. infrastructure projects so expensive and what could be done to make them cheaper?
- Has College Gotten Too Easy?
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/07/has-college-gotten-easier/594550/
Time spent studying is down, but GPAs are up.
- Why disabled Americans remain second-class citizens
The big hole in our civil rights laws.
- The Al Franken Case
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/opinion/al-franken-sexual-harassment-mayer.html
It’s a difficult one. But Democrats got it wrong.
- A Slow-Moving Storm: Why Demographic Changes Mean Tough Challenges for College Leaders
- What’s happening in ‘Orange Is the New Black’ is happening to real women behind bars
We must end the failed policies and bad laws that made the show possible.
- WHAT’S NEXT FOR WEDDINGS: PHONE-FREE MOMENTS AND FAR-FLUNG LOCALES
Shan-Lyn Ma, the co-founder and chief executive of the online wedding business Zola Inc., discusses the future of proposals, gift-giving and ceremonies
- An Appeal for a Grade Change, a Lifetime Later
https://humanparts.medium.com/an-appeal-for-a-grade-change-a-lifetime-later-3ab618eb8edb
After 2 children and 45 years of marriage, I would like to appeal my C grade in ‘Marriage and the Family’
- In Politics, Apologies Are for Losers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/opinion/sunday/when-should-a-politician-apologize.html
At least that’s what the numbers say.
- At a Clinic Threatened by Trump’s Rules, She Asks, ‘Why Attack Women?’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/opinion/sunday/women-health-trump.html
A septuagenarian male president imposed regulations that cut health services for women.
- It’s Not Just a Chemical Imbalance
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/opinion/sunday/its-not-just-a-chemical-imbalance.html
Thinking of my mental illness as preordained missed many of the causes of — and solutions to — my emotional suffering.
- Breaking a Mexican Tradition That Excludes Women, to Keep It Alive in Brooklyn
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/27/nyregion/mexican-dance-tecuanes.html
Women and girls are performing “la danza de los tecuanes” — the dance of the jaguars — to honor their Mexican ancestry.
- This Is an Article About Women
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/opinion/women-feminist-tshirts.html
In 2019, simple proclamations of womanhood are more popular than ever. But what, exactly, do they achieve?
- The ‘Glass Ceiling’ Is Tired. Women Are ‘Reinventing the Game.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/us/women-glass-ceiling-persist.html
Let’s talk about the linguistics of gender and racial bias.
- What to Know When Choosing Cremation
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/your-money/funeral-cremation-burial.html
A funeral industry report says demand for cremation is increasing, in part because it’s less expensive than burial. It has also become more socially acceptable.
- Where I Find Romance in Marriage
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/style/modern-love-romance-marriage-amnesia.html
It took my mother’s short-term amnesia to make me realize what long-term love is all about.
- Doctors in Debt: These Physicians Gladly Struck a Deal With California
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/health/california-medical-student-loans.html
The state is providing up to $300,000 in debt relief for doctors who agree to accept Medicaid. The grant has lifted “an emotional burden,” one recipient said, adding, “I can focus on my patients.”
- The Best (and Worst) Places to Retire
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/realestate/the-best-and-worst-places-to-retire.html
A recent study ranked the 50 states based on the what’s important to older adults.
- What Americans Know About Religion — And What They Don’t
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-americans-know-about-religion-and-what-they-dont/
The Pew Research Center asked Americans 32 multiple-choice questions about religion and spirituality earlier this year. The quiz — which you can still take — included questions such as, “What is commemorated on Easter Sunday?”
- You Are What You Watch? The Social Effects of TV
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/upshot/social-effects-television.html
There’s new evidence that viewing habits can affect your thinking, political preferences, even cognitive ability.
- Jeffrey Epstein, R. Kelly and a Change in How Prosecutors Look at Sexual Assault
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/nyregion/epstein-kelly-metoo-sex-charges.html
The #MeToo Movement is starting to shift attitudes within courts, prosecutors’ offices and, crucially, among victims.
- Need a Mental Health Day? Some States Give Students the Option
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/health/oregon-mental-health-days.html
An expert called the laws in both Utah and Oregon a “win” and said students who are “quietly suffering” from mental illness will benefit most.
- The Fight Over Planned Parenthood’s Future
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/podcasts/the-daily/abortion-planned-parenthood-leana-wen.html
The ousted president of the organization says it should focus on health care, not politics. But others say it doesn’t yet have that luxury.
- When Grandparents Help Hold It All Together
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/well/family/when-grandparents-help-hold-it-all-together.html
Sociologists use the term “intensive grandparenting” to refer to a commitment to providing regular child care, often accompanied by housekeeping or other tasks.
- Saudi Guardianship Laws Could Be Set to Change. Here’s How Women Are Reacting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/world/middleeast/saudi-guardianship-women-react.html
The government is said to be considering a revision to laws that require women to get the permission of a male guardian to marry, apply for a passport or travel out of the country.
- A Peculiarly Dutch Summer Rite: Children Abandoned in the Night Woods
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/world/europe/netherlands-dropping-children.html
It may sound extreme, but it’s normal in the Netherlands.