…Irvine, and Christopher Wildeman, a professor of policy analysis and management at Cornell University, sought to fill a gap in research about the life experiences of foster care children. They…
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…marketed in over 7,000 flavors. The Food and Drug Administration tried and failed to ban the flavors in 2016, arguing that they appeal to children and that the long-term effect…
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…he launched a project on Experiment to raise the $5,000 he needed to prepare a sample of an anti-kidney cancer drug his lab had developed for testing. “I was in…
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…voters would support a sales tax increase to help fund school construction. Researchers frequently conduct national polls to better understand how Americans feel about public policy topics such as gun…
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…research – to come up with quantitative estimates for the prevalence of stalking in the general population, with an eye toward potential public policy, prevention and response mechanisms. To that…
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…of warning — pictorial warning labels — on cigarettes have successfully deterred people with established smoking habits. Usable info for policymakers and journalists Hall notes that policymakers and journalists alike…
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…Gibbs, director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy: A tale of two pandemics: A nonfiction comic about historical racial health disparities Of all the damage done…
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…director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center and co-founder of SciCheck, a project that monitors and exposes politicians’ false and misleading claims about science. “In contrast,” she…
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…eliminate these disparities, there must be concerted efforts by stakeholders. Policy and societal actions are needed, Celedón says. The American Thoracic Society, for instance, created the Health Equality Subcommittee in…
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…low sale price of properties and failure to pay property taxes. Together, these factors may isolate residents in their homes, exacerbate crime and drug abuse and sales, which have a…
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