June 2022

By Aman Azhar, Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images, Inside Climate News, June 8, 2022 As a professor and climate scientist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Benjamin Zaitchik has found the perfect workshop: the rest of the city. A Boston native, Zaitchik intended to work on desert plants and agriculture after his doctoral studies at Yale University, and started out in the Middle East, studying ecology and chasing after...

By Lucy Tompkins, Illustration: Lennard Kok, The New York Times, June 14, 2022 Living on the streets, Hanif Hightower learned which Philadelphia shelters were likely to have an open bed during the cold months or where he could get a meal or a hot shower. But his resourcefulness had limits. Addicted to crack cocaine and struggling with clinical depression, he cycled in and out of jail and temporary rehab programs, returning to the streets each time he was released. Years passed this way. Then...

By Rachel Nuwer, Photo: Rod Lamkey/CNP/Sipa USA/Alamy Stock Photo, Scientific American, June 13, 2022 Americans spend more on health care than people in any other nation. Yet in any given year, the piecemeal nature of the American medical insurance system causes many preventable deaths and unnecessary costs. Not surprisingly, COVID-19 only exacerbated this already dire public health issue, as evidenced by the U.S.’s elevated mortality, compared with that of other high-income countries. A new...

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The basic cycle of abuse and the cycle of human sex trafficking are interchangeable except for the financial gain part. Force, fraud, and coercion can be present in any abusive relationship, just like love, hope and fear can. It becomes human trafficking when there's financial gain or something of value involved.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT! The CRI Annual Conference is almost here! Don't miss your chance to hear some of the most innovative resilience practitioners in the country. With mental health concerns increasing at staggering rates, the need for more effective resilience strategies is on the rise as well. Unfortunately, the use of antiquated science and a lack of insight into trauma-impacted individuals have led to flawed strategies. CRI's Director of Training, Rick Griffin will host a session titled...

By Michael Kimmelman and Lucy Tompkins, Photo: Christopher Lee, The New York Times, June 14, 2022 One steamy morning last July, Ana Rausch commandeered a shady corner of a parking lot on the northwest side of Houston. Downing a jumbo iced coffee, she issued brisk orders to a dozen outreach workers toting iPads. Her attention was fixed on a highway underpass nearby, where a handful of people were living in tents and cardboard lean-tos. As a vice president of Houston’s Coalition for the...

By Dave Davies, Photo: Octavio Jones/Getty Images, National Public Radio, June 14, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the racial inequities that plague American health care, with Black people dying of the disease at a rate more than double that of white people. Author Linda Villarosa has been writing about the racial disparities in health outcomes for decades and recently covered the topic for the New York Times' 1619 Project . She says that while she used to think poverty was to blame for...

By Rae Ellen Bichell and Cara Anthony, Photo: Joe Martinez/KHN, Kaiser Health News, June 13, 2022 Several months ago, a lab technologist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital mixed the blood components of two people: Alphonso Harried, who needed a kidney, and Pat Holterman-Hommes, who hoped to give him one. The goal was to see whether Harried’s body would instantly see Holterman-Hommes’ organ as a major threat and attack it before surgeons could finish a transplant. To do that, the technologist mixed in...

By Sydney Trent, Photo: Julia Rendleman/The Washington Post, The Washington Post, June 13, 2022 T he cell was smaller than a parking space, bound by three dirty beige concrete walls and a steel door with a narrow slot to push in meals and shackle hands. There was a narrow cot, a toilet, a sink. The filmy glass on the barred window allowed little sun; the always-on fluorescent ceiling light allowed no darkness. Each day brought the clanging of chains, the shuffling and shouting of guards and...

By Blake Hounshell, Photo: Joseph Prezioso/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images, The New York Times, June 10, 2022 The banner headline on Friday’s print edition of The New York Times was pretty direct: But for journalists, not every story is as black and white as a mob storming the United States Capitol to try to overturn a free election. Often, there are areas of gray. Gerrymandering is a classic example. It’s not always easy to identify heroes and villains when writing about the redrawing of...