CCF Briefing
- How to Maintain Friendships
- The #MeToo Moment: Parsing the Generational Divide
- Can Democrats Follow #MeToo to Victory?
- Profiting from Addiction
- Should You Give the Engagement Ring Back?
- Sex After Cancer
- There’s Been A Massive Shift To The Right In The Immigration Debate
- When States Make It Harder to Enroll, Even Eligible People Drop Medicaid
- The U.S. Fertility Rate Is Down, Yet More Women Are Mothers
- The Power of Human Touch
- Will the #MeToo Moment Shape the Cosby Case?
- #MeToo and the Marketing of Female Narrative
- Young Women Are Using A.D.H.D. Drugs in Greater Numbers, C.D.C. Reports
- More College Students Seem to Be Majoring in Perfectionism
- Health Workers Who Oppose Abortion Get New Protections
- Title IX Failures
- This Way Up: New Thinking About Poverty and Economic Mobility
- A Medicaid work requirement isn’t cruel
- One Day Your Mind May Fade. At Least You’ll Have a Plan.
- Can Software Predict Crime? Maybe So, but No Better Than a Human
- How the Pro-Life Movement Has Promoted Liberal Values
- The Shadow Safety Net
- Why Asking About Citizenship Could Make the Census Less Accurate
- Don’t Mind the Day Care Downstairs
- Why New York Hires 200 People to Pretend They’re Homeless
- Online Courses Are Harming the Students Who Need the Most Help
- Why Has the Golden State Beome the Poverty Capital of the U.S.?
- This Is Not a Sex Panic
- Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost
- The Students Who Don’t Believe College Is an Option
- Getting Tough on Sex Traffickers
- Why Is Pennsylvania Still Suspending Driver’s Licenses for Drug Offenses?
- How to Save Football Players’ Brains
- The Women’s March Became a Movement. What’s Next?
- Donald Trump and His Work Wives
- There’s Community and Consensus. But It’s No Commune.
- Here’s How to Deal With Men (Thwack!)
- We Need Bodice-Ripper Sex Ed
- How to Maintain Friendships
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/smarter-living/how-to-maintain-friends.html
Keeping cherished friendships afloat doesn’t need to be a huge time commitment.
- The #MeToo Moment: Parsing the Generational Divide
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/us/the-metoo-moment-parsing-the-generational-divide.html
The debate surrounding accusations against Aziz Ansari highlights generational differences in the way women say #metoo.
- Can Democrats Follow #MeToo to Victory?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/opinion/democrats-metoo-sexual-harassment.html
Examines a growing divergence on gender issues between male and female voters under the age of 30.
- Profiting from Addiction
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/podcasts/the-daily/drug-addiction-treatment.html
Getting clean has become a lucrative business. But the death of a patient in California has raised questions about what it means to profit from the health crisis.
- Should You Give the Engagement Ring Back?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/fashion/weddings/should-you-give-the-engagement-ring-back.html
Most courts say the ring is part of a contract and if you said yes to the proposal, give it back when the wedding is off.
- Sex After Cancer
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/well/live/sex-after-cancer.html
It can be difficult to experience desire if you fear your body or if you cannot recognize it as your own.
- There’s Been A Massive Shift To The Right In The Immigration Debate
With Republicans in control of the White House and Congress, and some of the party pushing a hard anti-immigrant stance, Democrats and immigration advocates have had to greatly temper their hopes for reform.
- When States Make It Harder to Enroll, Even Eligible People Drop Medicaid
Kentucky’s new Medicaid waiver will ask low-income people to jump over hurdles to keep their coverage. Evidence suggests that many will fail.
- The U.S. Fertility Rate Is Down, Yet More Women Are Mothers
The biggest increases have come from some groups who in the past were far less likely to have babies: highly educated women, those over 40, and women who have never been married.
- The Power of Human Touch
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/opinion/human-touch-aziz-ansari.html
Touch comes with risks, as expressed about the well-publicized Aziz Ansari date.
- Will the #MeToo Moment Shape the Cosby Case?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/arts/television/will-the-metoo-moment-shape-the-cosby-case.html
Bill Cosby’s retrial on sexual assault charges will unfold in a different America, where judge and jury have seen the power of multiple accounts by women.
- #MeToo and the Marketing of Female Narrative
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/nyregion/metoo-and-the-marketing-of-female-narrative.html
We are living in a high moment for feminism, but we all reveal our implicit biases through the internet everyday.
- Young Women Are Using A.D.H.D. Drugs in Greater Numbers, C.D.C. Reports
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/health/adhd-drugs-women.html
Since 2003, the percentage of women filling prescriptions for drugs like Ritalin has increased nearly fivefold in some age groups.
- More College Students Seem to Be Majoring in Perfectionism
New data indicates that perfectionism, especially when influenced by social media, has increased by 33 percent since 1989.
- Health Workers Who Oppose Abortion Get New Protections
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/us/health-care-office-abortion-contraception.html
The Trump administration announced a new “conscience and religious freedom” office to protect health workers who oppose abortion, sex-changes and some contraception.
- Title IX Failures
Buffalo State failed to investigate an alleged sexual assault or respond to a female athlete’s requests, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights found. The findings of investigators reconfirm college’s obligations to investigate off-campus incidents, the department’s former civil rights chief says.
- This Way Up: New Thinking About Poverty and Economic Mobility
http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/This-Way-Up.pdf
Proposals for welfare reform, wage subsidies, workforce training, school choice, and restoring the norms of marriage and responsible parenting
- A Medicaid work requirement isn’t cruel
The decision “is completely reasonable,” targeting only “able-bodied adults of working age.” It doesn’t apply to “the elderly, to pregnant women or to the disabled.” Moreover, work “is construed broadly to include community service, education, job training, volunteer service and treatment for substance abuse,” among other things. Nor is it being imposed on states, which can “be flexible on how far to go.”
- One Day Your Mind May Fade. At Least You’ll Have a Plan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/health/dementia-advance-directive.html
A doctor has developed an advance directive specifically to plan for medical care in the event of dementia.
- Can Software Predict Crime? Maybe So, but No Better Than a Human
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/us/computer-software-human-decisions.html
A study published in Science Advances suggests that amateurs are about as accurate as the COMPAS software that many judges use to inform their decisions.
- How the Pro-Life Movement Has Promoted Liberal Values
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/opinion/abortion-roe-wade-liberals.html
Right-to-life advocacy supported the advance of free speech.
- The Shadow Safety Net
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/opinion/the-shadow-safety-net.html
Federal and local governments are not doing their jobs, so nonprofit organizations are working to fill the void.
- Why Asking About Citizenship Could Make the Census Less Accurate
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/upshot/census-citizenship-hispanics-immigrants-mistrust.html
Distrust of the government’s intentions toward noncitizens may be hard to overcome, research suggests, and political developments have increased levels of distrust.
- Don’t Mind the Day Care Downstairs
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/realestate/the-day-care-downstairs.html
More than half of the day care centers in New York City are home-based, which means toddlers often get dropped off in residential buildings.
- Why New York Hires 200 People to Pretend They’re Homeless
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/nyregion/new-york-city-hope-homeless-count-decoys.html
During an annual count of homeless people on the streets of New York, decoys, many of whom were once homeless, help gauge the accuracy of the count.
- Online Courses Are Harming the Students Who Need the Most Help
Online education helps school districts that need to save money make do with fewer teachers. But there is mounting evidence that struggling students suffer.
- Why Has the Golden State Beome the Poverty Capital of the U.S.?
http://www.iwf.org/blog/2805599/Why-Has-the-Golden-State-Beome-the-Poverty-Capital-of-the-U.S.-
California has surpassed Mississippi and West Virginia to claim the dubious honor of being the state with the highest poverty rate.
Also see: https://www.city-journal.org/html/california-poverty-capital-15659.html
- This Is Not a Sex Panic
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/this-is-not-a-sex-panic/550547/
Stories of gray areas are exactly what more men need to hear.
- Science Is Giving the Pro-Life Movement a Boost
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/pro-life-pro-science/549308/
Advocates are tracking new developments in neonatal research and technology—and transforming one of America’s most contentious debates.
- The Students Who Don’t Believe College Is an Option
The proportion of graduates from predominantly nonwhite rural schools who pursue higher education is declining.
- Getting Tough on Sex Traffickers
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/19/opinion/getting-tough-on-sex-traffickers.html
Gangs increasingly rely on sex trafficking to support themselves.
- Why Is Pennsylvania Still Suspending Driver’s Licenses for Drug Offenses?
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/taking-the-high-road-on-drivers-license-suspensions/550688/
Close to 150,000 people have lost driving privileges in Pennsylvania between 2011 and 2016 because of a policy dating back to a 1991 federal law.
- How to Save Football Players’ Brains
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-save-football-players-brains-1516403567?mod=djemMER
One simple rule change would solve much of the problem: Require the linemen to stand up.
- The Women’s March Became a Movement. What’s Next?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/us/womens-march-metoo.html
Women’s marches drew more than a million people a year ago. This time around, they come amid a broader cultural challenge to men’s power and privilege.
- Donald Trump and His Work Wives
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/opinion/donald-trump-and-his-work-wives.html
What does Hope Hicks do, exactly? Vast amounts of emotional labor.
- There’s Community and Consensus. But It’s No Commune.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/business/cohousing-communities.html
A small movement with an ungainly name, cohousing, is appealing to more people of retirement age — and younger — who no longer want to be isolated.
- Here’s How to Deal With Men (Thwack!)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/style/confronting-sexual-harassment-dominatrix-training.html
This former dominatrix is teaching women tools to confront harassment and sexist behavior.
- We Need Bodice-Ripper Sex Ed
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/20/opinion/sunday/romance-novels-sex-ed.html
Romance novels taught me that sexual pleasure was something women could not just hope for but insist upon.