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Report: Significantly more women than men left workforce during pandemic school closures
Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor/May 15th, 2021 (The Center Square) – A “tidal wave of women” left the workforce in 2020, according to a new academic study published in the journal, Gender & Society. Researchers found that women primarily…
EMPLOYERS: IF YOU WANT WORKERS, PAY A LIVING WAGE
It’s not that people don’t want to work — it’s that they don’t want to work for so little. By Rebekah Entralgo | May 12, 2021/OtherWords.org Assorted Ideas, Large & Small The sudden shift from “we love our essential workers” to “they’re…
Mary Ball Washington, George’s single mother, often gets overlooked – but she’s well worth saluting
Martha Saxton, Amherst College On Mother’s Day, it is important and poignant to recall the hard life of Mary Ball Washington, who struggled – mostly alone – to raise our Founding Father. Historians have left us with inaccurate and mostly…
Why I deserve to be left alone for Mother’s Day, and you do too
If you also want to skip brunch and togetherness, you’re right. Research backs it up. Terri Rupar Originally published by The 19th We’re the only newsroom dedicated to writing about gender, politics and policy. Subscribe to our newsletter today. I’m not…
How to Prevent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Your Home
by Suzy Khimm, NBC News, and Perla Trevizo, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. This story was originally…
Op-Ed: Critical race theory is about to face its day(s) in court
John Murawski | RealClearInvestigations/April 27th, 2021 As recently as last summer, few people outside academia had heard of critical race theory, whose central claim is that racism, not liberty, is the founding value and guiding vision of American society. Then,…
Combined local-state tax rate in New York highest in U.S.
The Center Square/April 10th, 2021 The effective state and local tax rate for New York residents in 2019 was 14.1 percent, the highest percentage among the 50 states, according to a new ranking published by the Tax Foundation. Across the United…
Faith in numbers: Trump held steady among believers at the ballot – it was the nonreligious vote he lost in 2020
Ryan Burge, Eastern Illinois University For all the predictions and talk of a slump in support among evangelicals, it appears Donald Trump’s election loss was not at the hands of religious voters. As an analyst of religious data, I’ve been…
The puzzle of play
The purpose of play — for children, monkeys, rats or meerkats — has proved surprisingly hard to pin down. Scientists continue to toss around ideas. By Chris Woolston 3.30.2021 Anyone who has ever chucked a tennis ball in the…
Did racism kill Jackie Robinson?
Tamra Burns Loeb, University of California, Los Angeles; Alicia Morehead-Gee, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, and Derek Novacek, UCLA School of Medicine Baseball great Jackie Robinson was a living, breathing example of athleticism and apparent good health,…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor