At 7:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, you'll find Mark Gaither standing on Gough Street in southeast Baltimore. He's outside Wolfe Street Academy , the neighborhood elementary school where he's the principal. Gaither has a huge umbrella in case...
Introduction Why is there so much difference in the health of residents in one county compared to other counties in the same state? In these reports, theCounty Health Rankings & Roadmapsprogram explores how wide gaps are throughout each state and what is driving those differences. This information can help state leaders as they identify ways for everyone to have a fair chance to lead the healthiest life possible. Specifically, these reports can help state leaders understand:...
Inequality: What Can Be Done? Anthony B. Atkinson Harvard University Press Inequality will be everywhere and nowhere in the 2016 presidential debates. Given the way the rhetoric has evolved among the leading candidates, the economy will likely...
Every Thursday night you can find Nathan Fields making the rounds of Baltimore's red light district, known to locals as The Block. An outreach worker with the Baltimore City Health Department, Fields, 55, is a welcome sight outside strip clubs...
This past summer, The Atlantic’s Sarah Yager wrote about the rising popularity of prison nurseries as a means of saving costs, enhancing morale, and reducing recidivism among the ever-growing female inmate population. Such...
Phoenix Children’s Hospital defines Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) as the childhood traumas that can cause toxic stress and damage a child’s brain and overall health. These ACEs include but are not limited to, emotional and...
If love is the answer, Amarie is acing the test. Mom, aunties, uncles, grandparents, great-grandparents, cousins — her sprawling Eastern Shoshone family — brims with it. Her ready wide-eyed smile reflects the abundance, and she...
Princeton political scientist John Dilulio dubbed them superpredators—murderous teenagers who could commit heinous acts of violence without feeling a trace of guilt. “They fear neither the stigma of arrest nor the pain of...
Parental death from suicide is known to be linked with mental health problems and increased risk of suicide in the bereaved child, but little is known about the long-term risks of suicide after parental death from other causes. In...
Veterans Day is a day to remember and reflect on the sacrifices of our military veterans and also to thank them for their service. It’s a celebration that honors America's veterans for their patriotism and willingness to offer their lives...
Shared Hope International, which tracks how many states have passed laws against trafficking, finds many states are doing better at stopping the practice than when the first report was issued in 2011. [To listen to this story go to http://www.npr.org/2015/11/11/...fficking-report-says ]
Youth who are arrested for sex trafficking have significantly more childhood adversity than kids who are arrested for other crimes, according to recent research. Four Florida researchers analyzed the records of more than 64,000 juveniles to...
A new study has found that age-related differences in brain health — specifically the strength of connections between different regions of the brain — vary with fitness level in older adults. The findings, reported in the...
A week after it was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a paper by the Princeton economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton showing that middle-aged white Americans are dying in much larger numbers than they used...
Restorative justice is a wonderful concept; a way to make student discipline less punitive and more productive. But in Los Angeles Unified , it's little more than a slogan, generally misunderstood and rarely applied. The district did a...