Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Valerie Schloredt, YES! Magazine
Author George Lakey explains why Scandinavia tops world lists for equality, health, and happiness.
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- Written by: Leonard Steinhorn, BillMoyers.com
As Donald J. Trump assumes the presidency and lays out his agenda for our country, he will likely proclaim himself, as he did in the campaign, the voice of "the forgotten Americans."
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- Written by: Deirdre Fulton, Common Dreams
'Our job is to encourage every person in this country to get all of the education they can, not to punish them for getting that education,' Sanders says in New York
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- Written by: Melissa Hellmann, YES! Magazine
After four years without an independent grocery store, the residents of Iola, Kansas, found a way to bring one back.
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- Written by: Jim Logan, University of California, Santa Barbara
Imagine you received a Facebook message from a friend, for example, with news that your favorite football team is moving to another state.
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- Written by: David Korten, YES! Magazine
In rolling back decades of social and environmental progress, will Trump also expose the Great Growth Con? The con promises that economic growth—measured by gross domestic product—will benefit everyone, rich and poor alike.
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- Written by: Mark Gruenberg, Peoples World
Employer associations are predicting a raise in the federal minimum wage will cause employers to lay off workers.
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- Written by: Stanford University
Young people entering the workforce today are far less likely to earn more than their parents when compared to children born two generations earlier, new research shows.
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- Written by: Lance Wallace, Georgia Institute of Technology
Since social scientists and economists began measuring poverty, its definition has never strayed far from a discussion of income.
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- Written by: Kristin Ohlson, Ensia
When federal crop insurance rules stymied Gail Fuller’s attempts to innovate, he knew something had to change.
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- Written by: Stephanie Desmon, Johns Hopkins University
A cancer diagnosis can be a serious financial hardship for many elderly and disabled patients on Medicare, with annual out-of-pocket costs ranging from $2,116 to $8,115, on top of what they pay for health insurance, a new survey shows.
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- Written by: Rachel Harrison, New York University
New research links income inequality with greater civic engagement among young people—particularly among young people of color and those of lower socioeconomic status.
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- Written by: Rachel Harrison, New York University
Teachers communicate with parents based on their racial and immigrant backgrounds—not just their child’s academic performance—research finds.
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- Written by: Nick Buffie, CEPR
A common argument for the decline in employment in recent years is that more workers are dropping out of the labor force to live off public benefits, particularly Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
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- Written by: Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams
Trump's transition site says administration will 'modernize Medicare'—code for Ryan-style death by privatization
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- Written by: Gillian Kiley, Brown University
In all parts of the United States, the number of neighborhoods that are home to a mix of black, white, Asian, and Hispanic residents is growing.
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- Written by: Lisa Chedekel, Boston University
The two largest soda makers in the US use their sponsorships of health organizations to bolster their image, which helps them lobby against public health bills, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Boston University
New research finds racial disparities in emergency treatment for certain types of pain, specifically backaches and stomachaches.
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- Written by: Hongyi Li and Anton Kolotilin, UNSW Australia
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science has just been awarded to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström for building the foundations of contract theory.
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- Written by: Bill Hathaway, Yale University
Sophisticated eye-tracking technology shows that preschool teachers “show a tendency to more closely observe black students, and especially boys, when challenging behaviors are expected.”
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- Written by: Gerald K. LeTendre, Pennsylvania State University
Most of us know the difference a good teacher makes in the life of a child. Many global institutions working to improve access to education, such as the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Education International agree that “teacher quality” is the critical element in whether or not an educational system succeeds.
