Giving Every Child a Monthly Check for an Even Start (Published 2016)
Halie Ariza, 6, waiting to receive school supplies in Los Angeles. America has one of the highest child poverty rates among advanced nations.Credit...Lucy Nicholson/Reuters How can it be that the United States spends so much money fighting poverty and still suffers one of the highest child poverty rates among advanced nations? One in five American children is poor by the count of LIS, a data archi
Donald Trump Is Seen as Helping Push Asian-Americans Into Democratic Arms (Published 2016)
A diner reading a newspaper with coverage of Monday’s presidential debate at a restaurant in the Chinatown neighborhood of Las Vegas.Credit...Isaac Brekken for The New York Times LAS VEGAS — On paper at least, Asian-Americans seem like perfect Republicans. Many are small-business owners. Their communities tend to be more culturally conservative. And a lot of them, having fled oppressive Communist
In San Francisco and Rooting for a Tech Comeuppance (Published 2016)
A building across from Duboce Park in San Francisco. Some residents say soaring real estate prices have made evictions a big problem.Credit...Jason Henry for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — These are anxious days in the land of start-ups. Another few months of tight money and the entrepreneurs and venture capitalists will be feeling real pain. The sooner the better, some people here say. Cities
Migrant Crisis Worsens as 1,700 Storm Channel Tunnel
Thousands of migrants and refugees living in makeshift camps in the French port city of Calais are making nightly attempts to enter the Channel Tunnel freight terminal in a bid to reach Britain. The French government has deployed riot police and extra security around the tunnel, but that didn't deter 1,700 people from making the attempt on Sunday night, according to a French police union. The unio
Japan: Elderly overtake teenagers in crime figures
Over-65s now make up 26% of Japan's population, and the figure is expected to rise Police in Japan have dealt with more elderly crime than juvenile crime in the past six months, it's reported. It's the first time that people over the age of 65 have surpassed teenagers in crime statistics since 1989, when Japan's National Police Agency started publishing age-related crime data, the Kyodo News Agenc
Unemployment causes 45,000 suicides a year worldwide, finds study
The authors say their findings suggest that suicide prevention strategies need to target those who lose their jobs even in countries unaffected by recession. They found the suicide risk among the unemployed was stronger where more people were in work and the situation of the jobless was therefore more unusual. According to lead author Dr Carlos Nordt, of Zurich University’s Psychiatric Hospital, i
Muslims in Europe fear anti-Islamic mood will intensify after Paris attacks
One day after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, far right activists and Christian fundamentalists demonstrate in Lyon against the Islamisation of France. Photograph: Serge Mouraret/Demotix/Corbis One day after the attack on Charlie Hebdo, far right activists and Christian fundamentalists demonstrate in Lyon against the Islamisation of France. Photograph: Serge Mouraret/Demotix/Corbis
Changed Life of the Poor: Better Off, but Far Behind (Published 2014)
Tammie Hagen-Noey, in her bedroom at a group home in Richmond, Va., earns $7.25 an hour at a local McDonald’s.Credit...Drew Angerer for The New York Times WASHINGTON — Is a family with a car in the driveway, a flat-screen television and a computer with an Internet connection poor? Americans — even many of the poorest — enjoy a level of material abundance unthinkable just a generation or two ago. T
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