When Farah Tanis began to meet with a group of low-income women to discuss their economic challenges, she found that nine out of 10 were survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault. “Most of us had grown up in poverty and we started looking...
Everyone’s talking about the minimum wage today. I’m in favor of raising it, and I always have been, but a picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s a picture for you. Courtesy of the OECD, it shows the minimum wage in various...
Here’s news that won’t surprise any parents: Raising children is really expensive. According to recent Department of Agriculture projections, middle income U.S. parents who had a child in 2013 should expect to spend about $245,340 before...
After decades of rising obesity rates among adults, the pace of increase is beginning to slow, but rates remain high. This report reveals that adult obesity rates increased in six states in the past year and remained high overall. [For more of this story go to http://www.rwjf.org/en/researc...tate-of-obesity.html ]
Paula Meltzer was only 38 when out of nowhere everything she looked at was blurry. For the single mother, who had a lucrative career as a gemologist and spent hours examining valuable pieces of jewelry, it seemed as if – in a split second...
What could we possibly learn from massaging rat pups? The answer is, a lot. Just ask the millions of families whose prematurely born infants have survived and thrived on account of that research. That's why the researchers behind this work –...
Glenn Peters knew he would be in the minority when he started training to teach preschool as part of New York City's rollout of universal pre-K, the largest such initiative in the country. But he didn't realize just how rare men are in the profession...
Suggest that the way to end recidivism is to reform the prison system, and you might be accused of caring more about criminals than the crimes they commit. It's happened to me. Often when I write or give a talk about my work with minors in adult...
Too many children are not being cared for adequately after being found mentally disturbed in a public place, the Howard League for Penal Reform reports. Instead of being taken to “a place of safety” as required by law, except in...
Meqdad Toiaman’s father was killed in a drone strike in Marib governorate in 2011. His death was a big blow to the family, both emotionally and economically. Toiaman, 18, found himself in a peculiar situation, suddenly having to bear the burden...
The silent sniper fire of overdoses from pills and heroin that has been picking people off one at a time in increasing numbers all over the country for almost twenty years has hit Staten Island harder than anyplace else in the city. For a number of...
Focusing on relationships and taking a mixed approach to care are crucial to improving the mental health treatment of looked-after children, a report from the NSPCC has found. Tackling the question, ‘What works in preventing and treating poor...
A June 2014 report from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families finds that adolescent girls involved with child welfare services are at especially high risk of harmful sexual behaviors and...
Brains, which generate all behaviours as well as thoughts and emotions, don’t exist in isolation. Rather, they’re in a dynamic bidirectional interplay with our bodies. This has major implications for the health of both our brains and...
Using Philadelphia as an example, you can see it's a lot cheaper to educate than it is to incarcerate. So, ummm ... why are we cutting education spending? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? For more go to ...