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17th Aug 2017 | 20 notes

How Mental-Health Training for Police Can Save Lives—and Taxpayer Dollars

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17th Aug 2017

WHY IS AMERICAN INTERNET SO SLOW?

by RICK PAULAS from Pacific Standard How much Internet speed do you have? Don’t know? Here. Take the test and find out. If you’re in America and getting a download speed of more than 50 Megabits per second (Mbps), you’re in great shape. If you’re getting less — which, odds are better than not that you are, seeing as the country’s median speed is certainly way less — you have a below-average…

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11th Aug 2017 | 1 note

Geography and Life Expectancy Are Linked for Low-Income Americans

by TANVI MISRA from CityLab Place matters when it comes to how much we earn. And how much we earn is linked to how long we’re likely to live. It is clear that place and longevity are also related—at least for the nation’s poor. That’s according to a comprehensive new study by Stanford University economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues, published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical…

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10th Aug 2017

The Health Care System Is Leaving The Southern Black Belt Behind

By Anna Maria Barry-Jester from FiveThirtyEight Sitting outside of a Starbucks on the corner of a strip mall in Tuscaloosa late last year, Dr. Remona Peterson described her hometown of Thomaston, Alabama, population 400. “Everybody loves our grocery store. That’s, like, our pride,” she said with a laugh. She was in Tuscaloosa, Alabama’s fifth-largest city, finishing her medical residency…

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10th Aug 2017

WHY POVERTY IS SKYROCKETING IN THE SUBURBS

by DWYER GUNN from Pacific Standard If you were to ask a group of Americans to pinpoint poverty in this country, a good many would tell you you to turn a watchful eye to the inner-city blocks. Perhaps others would suggest you look at the isolated valleys of rural Appalachian coal mining towns. But few would point you to the suburbs, our country’s neatly manicured, leafy green mazes of driveways…

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27th Jul 2017

By Christopher IngrahamFrom Washington Post Gun deaths are up over 12 percent year-over-year. Firearm injuries are up nearly 8 percent. The number of children under the age of 12 shot by a gun has increased by 16 percent, while instances of defensive gun use are up nearly 30 percent. Citing “the crime and gangs and drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized…

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1st Jul 2017

States Take the Lead on Juvenile Justice Reform

By Jake Horowitz from Pew Trust Ready for some good news? Juveniles in the U.S. are much less likely to be arrested for violent crime and committed to state custody than they were 15 years ago. From 2001 to 2014, the juvenile violent crime arrest rate fell 46 percent and, over roughly the same period, the rate at which youths were sent to state-funded facilities dropped 53 percent. These…

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28th Jun 2017

Don’t Let Trump — Or Any President — Take Credit For Strong Jobs Numbers

by Ben Casselman from FiveThirtyEight Hiring was strong and wage growth accelerated in President Trump’s first full month in office. But don’t give Trump credit, at least not yet. The U.S. economy added 235,000 jobs in February, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Friday. That topped economists’ expectations and marked the second consecutive month of strong hiring. The unemployment rate fell a…

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27th Jun 2017

MAYBE THE INTERNET ISN’T TEARING US APART AFTER ALL

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz from Wired.com VIKINGMAIDEN88 IS TWENTY-SIX years old. She enjoys reading history and writing poetry. Her signature quote is from Shakespeare. I gleaned all this from her profile and posts on Stormfront.org, America’s most popular online hate site. I also learned that Vikingmaiden88 has enjoyed the content on the site of the newspaper I work for, the New York Times.…

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26th Jun 2017

FATHERS BEHAVE VERY DIFFERENTLY WITH YOUNG BOYS, GIRLS

by TOM JACOBS from Pacific Standard Why do women tend to be more empathetic than men? Is there something unique about female physiology that produces the ability and willingness to experience another person’s feelings? Or is empathy a learned trait we encourage in girls and discourage in boys? A fascinating new study that observed fathers interacting with their toddlers lends evidence to the…

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