Research shows Black women with children have been historically shut out from federal aid cash programs
A new research paper reviewed how each state implemented a federal program that has provided cash assistance to low income families over the last 25 years, and found that Black women with children repeatedly were excluded. Policy experts at the Center on Budget and...
The pandemic’s other medical casualties: Milwaukee doctors urge the public to resume cancer screenings
By Matt Martinez • Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service Doctors throughout Milwaukee are urging people to resume getting cancer screenings after seeing a sharp drop-off in patients throughout the pandemic. Dr. Joan Neuner, an internal medicine physician and leader of...
Barriers to treatment: How stigma and prohibition fueled the opioid crisis that OxyContin created
By Emily B. Campbell, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross The highly contentious Purdue Pharma settlement announced September 1, 2021, comes at a pivotal time for the United States overdose crisis: 2020 was the worst year on record,...
World Wide Outage: Facebook goes offline while facing blistering accusations from whistleblower
“Hello literally everyone,” the official account of Twitter tweeted on October 4, after Facebook and its affiliated platforms Instagram and WhatsApp went dark at about 11:40 in the morning. The Facebook outage lasted for more than six hours and appeared to have been...
Objectification: Facebook’s own research shows that Instagram is harmful for the well-being of teen girls
By Christia Spears Brown, Professor of Psychology, University of Kentucky Facebook officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that Instagram, the social media platform most used by adolescents, is harmful to teen girls’ body image and well-being but swept...
Zoom Dysmorphia: People have became fixated on their perceived facial flaws during remote video meetings
As the pandemic corralled the masses into video conferences throughout 2020, researchers noticed a phenomenon they dubbed “Zoom dysmorphia.” After months of remote meetings and social gatherings, and seeing their own faces on screen, more and more people became...
Pridetoberfest 2021: Milwaukee Pride shares details of fall event to celebrate local LGBTQ+ community
PrideFest, Wisconsin’s largest LGBTQ+ event, announced the official line up for their fall event, “PridetoberFest” slated for October 8 and 9 at the Henry Maier Festival Park. Originally scheduled for its traditional early June dates, PrideFest had to be canceled for...
Exploited by Conservatorships: The sad history of how “friendly White lawyers” swindled Native Americans
By Andrea Seielstad, Professor of Law, University of Dayton The quest by pop singer Britney Spears to end the conservatorship that handed control over her finances and health care to her father demonstrates the double-edged sword of putting people under the legal care...
Pregnancy-related Deaths: Study shows an abortion ban could result in 21% more fatalities nationwide
By Amanda Jean Stevenson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder A new Texas law bans nearly all abortions, and other states have indicated that they likely will follow suit. But the research is clear that people who want abortions but are...
Exvangelicals: The growing movement that is rejecting the conservative faith’s rigid political ideology
By Terry Shoemaker, Lecturer Religious Studies, Arizona State University A precipitous decline in the number of Americans identifying as white evangelical was revealed in Public Religion Research Institute’s 2020 Census on American Religion. In 2006, almost a quarter...
Vigilante lawsuits against the unvaccinated could follow in the wake of Abortion Rights dismissal
Is what’s good for the goose is good for the gander? In letting stand Texas’s draconian new anti-abortion law, The Supreme Court allowed states to deputize almost anyone in the world as bounty hunters to go after and punish anyone in Texas taking part in a...
From fringe to mainstream: Survey finds 21 million Americans say violence is justified to reverse election
By Robert A. Pape, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago A recent Washington demonstration supporting those charged with crimes for the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol fizzled, with no more than 200 demonstrators showing up. The organizers...
