What happens to a community when a rural school closes?
…6% higher in large rural villages with schools. Municipal water and sewer systems were more common in rural communities with schools, Lyson found. He also found the income inequality gap…
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53% of journalists surveyed weren’t sure they could spot flawed research
…journalists like me.” “Develops tip sheets, etc. about how to report on different beats, e.g. police, courts, affordable housing, city infrastructure, e.g. sewage, drainage, water, city financing alternatives for capital…
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Tax cuts for bottom 90% of earners spur job growth, research finds
…intuitively evokes an image of water moving from high to low ground, unable to fight the irresistible force of gravity, saturating one and all. Recent research from Princeton University economist…
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Covering China for the New York Times: 11 questions with Jane Perlez
…the Beijing bureau? JP: The South China Sea is probably a total unknown to most people in the U.S., but it’s an important body of water because it’s basically the…
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Hoarding and panic buying: 4 studies to know
…earth-tremor, or rush of water is a catastrophe,” he writes. “A catastrophe is known by its works; that is to say, by the occurrence of disaster. So long as the…
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Working from home: What the research says about setting boundaries, staying productive and reshaping cities
…Delaney-Klinger is an associate professor of management at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. About 37% of the sample had a telework arrangement, with 80% of teleworkers working from home. The researchers…
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Rural health care and COVID-19: A research roundup
…from the federal government have left tribal nations without basic infrastructure like running water and sewage systems, along with sparse internet access and an underfunded Indian Health Service.” —- Policy…
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Reparations for slavery and racial segregation in America: 7 papers to know
…Coates broadened the reparations debate beyond debt. Allan Cooper, a political science professor at North Carolina Central University, offers that the debt framing has failed to hold water legally, with…
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Older people more likely to die during heat waves in colder parts of the U.S. — plus, the global inequality of climate change
…across the world stand to be inundated with water. Analyses on life and death say something about whether people live or die, but they don’t say anything about quality of…
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Exploring links between credit card debt and mental health as COVID recession wears on
…fallen behind stand to either lose basic necessities, like housing and running water, or else rack up interest and fees on their credit cards to make rent. There’s a host…
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