Why are certain neighborhoods healthier than others? It's a question that's received no small share of academic attention in recent years (CityLab has variously touched upon the topic here , here , and here .) With no definitive...
....The fast-food giants have seemed clumsy, and wrong-footed by the surge of protest. Their traditional defense of miserable pay—that most of their employees are young, part time, just working for gas money, really—has grown...
[Getty Images] The widening gap between America's wealthiest and its middle and lower classes is "unsustainable", but is unlikely to improve any time soon, according to a Harvard Business School study released on Monday. The study, titled " An Economy Doing Half its Job ", said American companies - particularly big ones - were showing some signs of recovering their competitive edge on the world stage since the financial crisis, but that workers would likely keep struggling to demand...
WCCO radio host Jordana Green asked good questions and received strong answers about the conditions surrounding the death of four year old Eric Dean who was tortured to death by his adoptive mother (8 minutes) ...
If there is one group of students with the most to gain from staying in school, it is those minors transitioning out of the juvenile justice system. Yet of the roughly 42,000 youth who attend California’s juvenile court...
A group of activists in Washington, D.C., have proposed a novel solution to a problem that has affected the United States for decades: the practice of locking people up in private prisons that critics say are more concerned with making money...
New research on adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, reveals that 57 percent of children in California have had such experiences, with economic hardship as the most common, followed by divorce, alcohol abuse by caregivers and...
. ...It was possible for some fans to line up and cheer for their favorite teams, and have a “show’s over, let’s move on” attitude when they knew just a little about what happened that night in Atlantic City and ignored...
This is the first time in my memory that a key reporter (Brandon Stahl) from a major newspaper (Star Tribune) has taken the time and energy to thoroughly investigate child abuse. The greatest sadness in all this may be...
Meet Santiago Hernandez, 23. He lives in the Bronx. On a Monday evening last month, he was standing in front of an apartment building at around 6 p.m. when two NYPD police officers appeared and demanded permission to frisk him. He...
Sometimes it’s the doctors, not the families, who can’t let a patient go. My elderly patient had lived much longer than seemed possible at the time of his cancer diagnosis. Ten years later, though, his relapsed lymphoma had become...
Discussions of the relationship between blacks and the criminal justice system in this country too often grind to a halt as people slink down into their silos and arm themselves with their best rhetorical weapons — racial bias on one side and...
On March 20 in the St. Louis County town of Florissant, someone made an illegal U-turn in front of Nicole Bolden. The 32-year-old black single mother hit her brakes but couldn’t avoid a collision. Bolden wasn’t at fault for the accident...
[Image: Rob Donnelly] There's no question that alcohol is a factor in the majority of sexual assaults on campus. And alcohol is abundant and very present at most colleges today. In fact, federal health officials say more than 80 percent of college students drink. And about half say they binge drink. This means more than four drinks for women and more than five drinks for men, within a two-hour time frame. "Everybody's drinking to get drunk," says Dr. Sharon Levy , a...
....So while Jackie hoped for the best, she knew the call she was making had the potential to not end well. "You can't hate me after I say this," she pleaded when, alarmed to be receiving a call in the middle of the night, her mom picked up the...