The Verge The American Fix The ideal approach would involve integrating addiction treatment with basic medical and mental health access. “Is this the optimal model for providing Suboxone treatment? No,” says Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University. “I believe maintenance therapy is done best, and the research bears this out, when it’s done […]
Forbes Trump should fix, not scrap, job-training program for older adults The need and desire for the kind of training SCSEP offers, however, far outstrips the available opportunities. The Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University has estimated that nine million people age 55 to 74 were eligible for SCSEP. But remember, only about 65,000 low-income older Americans participate in it annually — that’s because […]
We used to count black Americans as ⅗ of a person. For reparations, give them 5/3 of a vote If you want to shut down a conversation about race, just say the word “reparations.” Even black Americans are divided over the idea that money can compensate for the vestiges of an evil institution that ended 150 years ago; only 60 percent think the government should make cash payments to descendants of slaves. White Americans, on the […]
Long-Term Jobless Fix The jobless rate has been edging downward, but the long-term unemployed have been left out. Do we need a targeted program to get these 4.8M Americans back to work?
Why Dodd-Frank Won’t Fix CEO Pay Back when the financial crisis hit, there were few things more irritating to Americans than seeing huge bonuses go to the top dogs at big corporations. Two years later, and apparently nobody cares.
U.S. News & World Report Doing the gun lobby’s bidding In their effort to give the gun lobby its number one priority these lawmakers plan to hold the Fix NICS Act of 2017 hostage, binding the passage of a law that is designed to save lives with one that most scholars and law enforcement experts believe will have just the opposite effect. While the Fix […]
What the Clean Air Act can teach us about reducing gun violence In his passionate response to the Oregon shooting last week, President Obama called on the American people to support stricter gun laws, contrasting the way we treat guns and the way we treat cars — both of which kill about 32,000 Americans every year. “When roads are unsafe, we fix them to reduce auto fatalities. […]