Ferguson City Council plans changes this week that will reduce the importance of traffic fines and fees to the city’s budget, a communications firm representing the St. Louis suburb’s government announced on Monday. The role of...
The French have already criminalised “psychological violence”. British ministers – who are considering making “coercive control” within intimate relationships a crime should do the same. Coercive control is sometimes...
Today, the Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) announces the launch of its Social Impact Calculator , a first-of-its-kind tool that allows us to monetize—or put a dollar amount on—the social impact of our investments in low-income...
The show Fox and Friends had an unusual takeaway from the video of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his wife, Janay, in the face and knocking her unconscious in a casino elevator: "Take the stairs." The...
While a burly kid on the playground may be the stereotype of a childhood bully, a new study suggests some of the most damaging bullies are as close to home as you can get: They're siblings who tease, make fun of and physically hurt their...
A lbany, NY ( August 25, 2014) Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc.(ATN) an organization that helps families and children affected by attachment trauma and reactive attachment disorder is hosting a FREE online summit: Educating Traumatized Children , from September 30 to October 10, 2014. The summit will feature over 20 interviews from trauma experts across the United States. The interviews will also be available for purchase and download after their initial...
People can become addicted to eating for its own sake but not to consuming specific foods such as those high in sugar or fat, research suggests. An international team of scientists, including researchers from Aberdeen, has found no strong...
Why are certain neighborhoods healthier than others? It's a question that's received no small share of academic attention in recent years (CityLab has variously touched upon the topic here , here , and here .) With no definitive...
....The fast-food giants have seemed clumsy, and wrong-footed by the surge of protest. Their traditional defense of miserable pay—that most of their employees are young, part time, just working for gas money, really—has grown...
[Getty Images] The widening gap between America's wealthiest and its middle and lower classes is "unsustainable", but is unlikely to improve any time soon, according to a Harvard Business School study released on Monday. The study, titled " An Economy Doing Half its Job ", said American companies - particularly big ones - were showing some signs of recovering their competitive edge on the world stage since the financial crisis, but that workers would likely keep struggling to demand...
WCCO radio host Jordana Green asked good questions and received strong answers about the conditions surrounding the death of four year old Eric Dean who was tortured to death by his adoptive mother (8 minutes) ...
If there is one group of students with the most to gain from staying in school, it is those minors transitioning out of the juvenile justice system. Yet of the roughly 42,000 youth who attend California’s juvenile court...
A group of activists in Washington, D.C., have proposed a novel solution to a problem that has affected the United States for decades: the practice of locking people up in private prisons that critics say are more concerned with making money...
New research on adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, reveals that 57 percent of children in California have had such experiences, with economic hardship as the most common, followed by divorce, alcohol abuse by caregivers and...
. ...It was possible for some fans to line up and cheer for their favorite teams, and have a “show’s over, let’s move on” attitude when they knew just a little about what happened that night in Atlantic City and ignored...