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Working Poor USA
Millions of people in the U.S. work and are still poor. Here are eight points that show why the U.S. needs to dedicate itself to making work pay.
The problem with leaving a gun in your car
Cars are a bad place to keep valuables—especially if those valuables are weapons. But every day, U.S. gun owners store their Glocks, their Smith & Wesson 9mm pistols, their .22 rifles, and plenty more firearms in their cars as they go to work or the grocery store. A jimmied door, a broken window, and someone […]
Mapping tools show Boston’s disparity
Daniel Hartman analyzed different measures of wealth and poverty in Boston for a graduate-level class in visualization technologies at Northeastern University. Using data from the 2009-2013 American Community Survey, he mapped each of the 166 primary Census tracts in Boston, using a number of metrics, including unemployment, rent burden, household income, commute times, home ownership, […]
WGBH
Huckabee, the Holocaust, and the politics of fear
When Mike Huckabee uttered his inflammatory remark that with the Iran nuclear deal, President Obama is “marching the Israelis to the door of the oven,” national director of the Anti-Defamation League Jonathan A. Greenblatt responded “Whatever one’s views of the nuclear agreement with Iran – and we have been critical of it… comments such as […]
Scientific American
NIH proceeds with caution on sex balance in biomedical studies
The policy change is meant, in part, to improve how drugs function in girls and women. Yet it may benefit men as well. For instance, another problem the NIH identified arises when researchers average results from pools of lab animals including both females and males. That commonplace practice may obscure sex differences that could help […]
Will a U.S.-India working group do the bidding of the pharma industry?
“The US has created IP working groups and other trade working groups in the past,” Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a senior policy analyst for Health GAP, an advocacy group, writes us. “And in each instance, the working groups, which include advisors who strongly favor stronger US-style patent… protections […]
A virtual outbreak offers hints of Ebola’s future
Some computer simulations focus on the risk of Ebola spreading to other countries. Alessandro Vespignani, at Northeastern University, creates those models, using information about air travel and other kinds of transportation. His work suggests that Ebola could find its way to African nations like Ghana, Gambia, and Senegal. “There is a tangible risk of spreading […]
Twitter and blogs are not add-ons to research
“The best (and most successful) academics are the ones who are so caught up in the importance of their work, so caught up with their simple passion for a subject, that they publicise it with every breath,” Professor Hitchcock says. He praises the early career scholars who have dismissed concerns that exposing their research too […]
A threat to civil rights?
This July marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act. The landmark law, spearheaded by President John F. Kennedy and signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, opened the doors of liberty and equality for millions of Americans since then. But paying tribute to this momentous occasion also requires us to think […]
American engineers share ingenuity to boost world’s poor
WITH HIS column reporting on the work of engineers from UMass Lowell in Haiti (“Truly civil engineering,” Metro, May 19), Adrian Walker has touched on a significant transformation within American society. Quietly but surely, through the confluence of social responsibility, ingenuity, and youthful energy, the profession of engineering is becoming a prime instrument of fundamental change for […]
There is progress in emerging lands
Ruchir Sharma’s “The Emerging-Market Comedown” (op-ed, Jan. 22) is a useful antidote to all the hype about emerging economies, but he is wrong to assert that incomes in poor countries aren’t gradually converging with those of rich countries. Economist Angus Maddison’s work has shown that since emerging economies gained independence, and especially after they embraced […]
Asia Pacific Forum
Generic Drug War: Global South vs. Big Pharma
Can you put a price tag on your health? Around the world, people are being denied life-saving medicines simply because they can’t afford the cost of medicine. But there is a growing movement to resist the power of the big pharmaceutical companies that currently control the global medicine market through monopolies and patents.You might have […]