When Americans talk about the failings of the country’s economy, the focus is usually on inequality—the uneven distribution of prosperity among the population. Poverty, on its own terms, receives less attention. That’s not the...
It's your mom, who started using painkillers after knee surgery and now can't do a day without them. It's your friend's boyfriend, the one who lost his license after the third DUI. It's your little cousin, who used to spend the night when his...
It seems that people will continue riding the “black-on-black crime” train, and the wheels may never fall off of it. But if we can’t get rid of the tortured phrase , the least we can do is bring some clarity to why...
In a room filled with architects, acting Surgeon General Rear Admiral Boris D. Lushniak shook up the common definition of our profession by saying that “ if you are an architect, you are a public health worker. ” And many architects...
The Context of “Big Data” You may be tired of hearing about it, but the big data revolution is upon us. Forecasts of big data’s impact range from enthusiastic praise about its capacity for global transformation to...
“One-Way Ticket” I pick up my life And take it with me And I put it down in Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Scranton, Any place that is North and East — And not Dixie. I pick up my life And take it on the train To Los Angeles,...
Around the U.S., a worsening heroin epidemic has more and more cities turning to the anti-overdose drug naloxone to reduce deaths from abuse. Also known as Narcan, the medication blocks the effects of opioids and reverses the respiratory...
Math can be as scary as spiders and snakes, at least in the brain of an 8-year-old child. And that early anxiety about dealing with numbers can put a child at a significant disadvantage , not only in school but in negotiating life and a...
Wisconsin is experiencing a push to adopt trauma-centered programs, and University of Wisconsin is filling in the blanks with its own research. After the Adverse Childhood Experiences study was conducted in 1995-97,...
A $30 million, city-sponsored experiment in training non-professionals to provide mental health help will focus on people who work with parents of small children, the unemployed poor and young people who aren't in work or school,...
Abstract: In this article, we address three questions concerning the long-term effects of parenting-focused preventive interventions: (a) Do prevention programs promote effective parenting in families facing normative stressors as well as those facing...
The United Kingdom is currently fighting a war in which thousands of British people die needlessly each year. Deaths that the government, the media and the general population are guilty of turning a blind eye to. This isn’t a small war...
Black women in New York City died 12 times as often as white women during pregnancy, labor or from complications of labor during the years 2006 to 2010, finds a newly available report by city health authorities. That disparity is much wider...
Sitting in the back of the classroom, right cheek pressed to a desk and tears drying on her chin, Mya squeezes a stress ball and smells a stick of lavender while I talk about units of measurement. "Mr. Cipriani," Jose whispers as I pass his...
Many commentators have pointed to disturbances in Ferguson and elsewhere over the past year as proof that economic inequality leads to tensions and even violence. But new research out from Yale University suggests that...