Bullying starts as early as elementary and middle school, and occurs more frequently for students who later identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual, a new study suggests. The study found that from fifth through 10th grade, children who later...
Emeryville, a small city in the San Francisco Bay Area, has given initial approval to the nation's highest minimum wage by setting baseline pay at $16 an hour in 2019, with gradual increases leading up to that level. The 5-0 vote on Tuesday by...
For adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder, employment prospects are often disappointingly few and far between. According to a 2013 report published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry , the underemployment starts early. Just over 50 percent of young adults with ASD worked for pay outside the home within eight years after they finished high school. And when they did, the work was part-time and low-paying more often than not. Only about 20...
The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Restorative Justice program has set up an installation at Drexel University to begin a dialogue about issues among the prison population in the United States. The installation is a series of mural panels that are...
Paper Tigers will premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) at 7 PM Thursday, May 28, 2015, at the SIFF Cinema Uptown in Seattle, WA. SIFF is the largest and most highly attended festival in the U.S. Paper Tigers...
There is a lot of information available on healthy aging; and much of that writing includes strategies for a healthy brain, like this article by Michele Rosenthal titled 7 Ways to Exercise Your Brain - and Why You Really Need To! When I spoke...
Recognizing that patients' experiences of childhood and adult trauma are common and have a direct impact on their health, UCSF clinical researchers and Positive Women's Network-USA have developed and are reporting a new primary care model. "In...
The sounds emitted by cellphones carried by pregnant women may rattle the sleep-and-wake cycles of their fetuses, new research suggests. The finding is based on a small study that tracked fetal reactions to repetitive cellphone and beeper use among...
The crisis of homelessness that ballooned under Mayor Michael Bloomberg shows no signs of deflating anytime soon under his successor, Bill de Blasio. Nearly 57,000 people were sleeping in city shelters at last count, 24,000 of them children. It...
At William and Mary, there have been four. At the University of Pennsylvania, there have been four. And there have been four at Tulane University. And there has been one at Yale. And there have been three at George Washington University. But...
While schools across Texas wrap up another round of STAAR testing, parents are growing increasingly concerned about the emotional impact high-stakes testing has on our children. They know that their kids can’t perform at their best when...
The juvenile justice system in America is so harsh, so expensive, and so altogether ineffective, that it is “almost Third World in punitive measures,” said New York Chief Judge Judith Kaye at a conference at John Jay College of...
Like many people in the criminal-justice system, John Chisholm, the District Attorney in Milwaukee County, has been concerned for a long time about the racial imbalance in American prisons. The issue is especially salient in Wisconsin, where...
How could there be a test that indicates early mortality, 19 years early, and I’ve never heard of it? I’m into health, have avoided red meat for 30 years, drink lots of water, floss, do yoga and take vitamins. I’m a reader and writer...
The speaker stood behind the lectern, a cadre of aides and commissioners in tow, shifting gamely to Spanish toward the end of her prepared remarks. Hosts at the Empire State Building muttered into walkie-talkies, plotting how to best shuttle...