Population spikes of more than 135 metropolitan areas between 2010 and 2012 were due more to people coming from other countries than to domestic growth. And a recent Census report revealed that more than 11 percent of the...
You told us that the blog post The Answer: A Scaffolding of Support was useful in your work—so we created a new resource for you to easily share. Here we outline eight guiding principles for effective investments in early childhood...
A pair of brain-imaging studies suggest researchers may be able to predict how likely young adults are to develop problem drinking or engage in risky sexual behavior in response to stress. The new research is part of the ongoing Duke...
Earlier this year, a generous donor gave $100,000 to the Girl Scouts of Western Washington. According to the Seattle Met , that was almost a quarter of the council's fundraising goal for the entire year . This was a big deal....
New research suggests the stress hormone cortisol strengthens memories of traumatic or scary experiences. The hormone appears to influence initial memory formation and also affects subsequent memory reconsolidation that occurs when people look...
When the video above was filmed, the girl on the bed was 17 years old. For the purposes of this story, I’ll call her Jamie. There was a time when she liked acting in goofy comedy skits at her Detroit church or crawling into bed with...
Until now, if you wanted to know how a school district’s high school graduation rate fared against other states or regions, you’d have to rely on state averages from the federal government. We decided that’s not good enough....
A group of tech entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley has taken on a huge task — trying to transform an entire community’s health status in five places across the country, in just five years. One of those targets is in rural Lake...
More than 150,000 U.S. families are homeless each year. The number has been going down, in part because of a program known as rapid rehousing , which quickly moves families out of shelters and into homes. But new research by the Obama...
The Los Angeles Police Department’s mental evaluation unit is the largest mental health policing program of its kind in the nation, with 61 sworn officers and 28 mental health workers from the county. The unit has become a...
When Kate Klein began working as a nurse in the Cleveland Clinic's Neurointensive Care Unit, one of the first things she noticed was that her patients spent a lot of time in bed. She knew patients with other injuries benefitted from getting up...
This story was originally published by The Marshall Project and Vice News . The Marshall Project is a nonprofit news organization focused on the U.S. criminal justice system. You can sign up for their ...
Son, Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the Far West Side of Manhattan. A satellite closed the miles...
The Los Angeles Police Department's mental evaluation unit is the largest mental health policing program of its kind in the nation, with 61 sworn officers and 28 mental health workers from the county. The unit has become a vital...
The paintings of boys brushed with the colors of childhood, blue jeans and red cheeks, decorate the living room at Wild Rose Farm . Two portraits, one of J.T. Lewis and one of his little brother, Jesse, hang above the piano. Another...