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During The Pandemic Discrimination Took A Heavy Toll On Asian American Students
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During The Pandemic Discrimination Took A Heavy Toll On Asian American Students

Discrimination took a heavy toll on Asian American students during the pandemic. Experiencing discrimination significantly harmed the well-being of Asian and Asian American college students in the U.S. during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s the key finding of our study, which compared over 6,000 survey responses from Asian and Asian American students who took the National College Health Assessment – an annual survey of student health behaviors – in the fall of 2019 and the fall of 2020. Our study focused only on Asians and Asian Americans. Others have found that both Asian and Native American ethnic groups experienced the highest rates of COVID-19-related discrimination. We found that Asian and Asian American students experienced high levels of stressors during the COVI...
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SAG-AFTRA Flexing Their Labor Power
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SAG-AFTRA Flexing Their Labor Power

From Picket Lines to Plot Lines Hundreds of thousands of creative workers in the film and television industry are currently flexing their labor power. For the first time in more than 60 years, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild (which merged with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists in 2012 to become SAG-AFTRA) are striking simultaneously. Filming has halted midproduction and press junkets are on hold. Negotiations are reportedly poised to resume on August 4. At the heart of the unions’ conflict with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which represents all the major entertainment media corporations, are the issues of royalty payments—known as residuals—and the use of artificial intelligence (AI). The former is an ...
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This Scholar Just Joined The Club Fewer Than 20 Black Women Physicists In The U.S. Have Earned
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This Scholar Just Joined The Club Fewer Than 20 Black Women Physicists In The U.S. Have Earned

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein still remembers how appalled her father was when she pointed to a stream of light spanning the sky and inquired, “What is that?” “My dad just looked at me like, ‘What. . . is wrong with you?’” Prescod-Weinstein recalled with a laugh. “That's the Milky Way,” he told her. Neither one of them knew for sure during their camping trip among the giant sequoias nearly three decades ago that Prescod-Weinstein, then 14, would grow up to be a theoretical physicist specializing in early universe cosmology, though the teenager had already expressed an interest in the field. Spending her youth in light-polluted Los Angeles, however, had robbed Prescod-Weinstein of the opportunity to study the night sky, so it took driving hours out of the city to finally see the Milky Way....
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Medicaid Coverage Leaves Out Many Older Americans Who May Need Help Paying For Medical And Long-Term Care Bills Where The Government Draws The Line
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Medicaid Coverage Leaves Out Many Older Americans Who May Need Help Paying For Medical And Long-Term Care Bills Where The Government Draws The Line

Where the government draws the line for Medicaid coverage leaves out many older Americans who may need help paying for medical and long-term care bills – new research. The big idea Medicaid, which provides low-income Americans with health insurance coverage, currently excludes large numbers of adults over 65 with social, health and financial profiles similar to those of people the program does cover. Based on a study we conducted, we determined that if strict eligibility rules for Medicaid were changed to help cover such people, from 700,000 to 11.5 million people over 65 would be newly eligible for the program. We analyzed data from the 2018 Health and Retirement Study, a large national survey of older adults conducted by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan e...
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Fannie Lou Hamer’s — Her Fight For Voting Rights
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Fannie Lou Hamer’s — Her Fight For Voting Rights

Fannie Lou Hamer is widely heralded as someone whose multiple marginalized identities coalesced to make her a stronger activist. She was a poor Black woman sharecropper from rural Mississippi who became an integral part of the struggle for voting rights in America. Hamer was able to speak about issues that many Black Americans faced as someone who was close to the problem. But often buried in her history is the fact that Hamer, who died in 1977, also spoke as a person who had a disability. Keisha N. Blain — a professor of Africana studies and history at Brown University — wanted to highlight Hamer’s disability in her biography of the late activist “Until I Am Free,” which was published in 2021. “I thought it was important to emphasize that from the beginning, not only because it was im...
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Are You A Victim Of Micromanagement? Tips To Take Back Control
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Are You A Victim Of Micromanagement? Tips To Take Back Control

Could you be a victim of micromanagement? Seven tips to take back control. Have you ever wondered if you’re being micromanaged by your supervisor? You wouldn’t be alone: in 2021, a US survey by Trinity Solutions revealed 79% of employees have experienced micromanagement, with 71% reporting this interfered with their job performance and 85% complaining of its negative impacts on morale. Micro-management may be motivated by good intentions, but it’s often counter-productive. Wallpaperflare.com, CC BY-SA So, what does micromanagement look like? Let’s take the example of Marc and his manager Kelly. Marc wants to share some updates about a project the team had been working on. When he knocks on her office door, he hears a curt “Come in” and enters. Kelly appears to be busy, typing away at her k...
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Ja Morant — A ‘Good Guy With A Gun’ Can Never Be Black
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Ja Morant — A ‘Good Guy With A Gun’ Can Never Be Black

Ja Morant shows how a ‘good guy with a gun’ can never be Black. “Man enough to pull a gun, be man enough to squeeze it,” rapped NBA superstar Allen Iverson on his song “40 Bars.” This was two weeks prior to the 2000-01 NBA season, one in which Iverson would be named league MVP. Ja Morant, the 23-year-old star point guard for the Memphis Grizzlies, was barely 1 year old. Today, Morant’s game conjures that of the electrifying Iverson. With colorfully dyed dreadlocks, an infectious smile and a signature sneaker, Ja represents the next generation of NBA superstars. But his bursting athletic brilliance, so evocative of Iverson, comes with a cost: the perceived menace of the Black gangster. On March 4, 2023, Morant posted an Instagram Live video of him displaying a gun at a Denver strip club...
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Junk Food Diets Lacking In Micro-Nutrients May Contribute To Angry Rhetoric
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Junk Food Diets Lacking In Micro-Nutrients May Contribute To Angry Rhetoric

Junk food and the brain: How modern diets lacking in micronutrients may contribute to angry rhetoric. Emotional, non-rational, even explosive remarks in public discourse have escalated in recent years. Politicians endure insults during legislative discussions; scientists receive emails and tweets containing verbal abuse and threats. What’s going on? This escalation in angry rhetoric is sometimes attributed to social media. But are there other influences altering communication styles? As researchers in the field of nutrition and mental health, and authors of The Better Brain, we recognize that many in our society experience brain hunger, impairing their cognitive function and emotion regulation. Ultra-processed products Obviously, we are not deficient in macronutrients: North Americans ...
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Michigan Data Shows Work Requirements Don’t Work For Domestic Violence Survivors — They Rarely Get Waivers They Should Receive For Cash Assistance
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Michigan Data Shows Work Requirements Don’t Work For Domestic Violence Survivors — They Rarely Get Waivers They Should Receive For Cash Assistance

Work requirements don’t work for domestic violence survivors – but Michigan data shows they rarely get waivers they should receive for cash assistance. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Very few people who have survived domestic violence are getting Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) waivers from the work requirements and time limits tied to those benefits – even though they’re eligible for them, according to our new research. State governments administer the federal TANF program, commonly known as welfare or cash assistance, in accordance with their own guidelines. Federal law allows states to grant domestic violence waivers to TANF recipients when time limits, work requirements and other policies increase their risk of abuse o...
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The Stressful Health Toll Of Gun Violence Plague Black Mothers Trapped In Unsafe Neighborhoods
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The Stressful Health Toll Of Gun Violence Plague Black Mothers Trapped In Unsafe Neighborhoods

Black mothers trapped in unsafe neighborhoods signal the stressful health toll of gun violence in the U.S. Black mothers are the canaries in the coal mine when it comes to the mental and physical harms of stress from living with gun violence in America. In the U.S., Black people are likelier than white people to reside in impoverished, racially segregated communities with high levels of gun violence. Research has suggested that living in violent and unsafe environments can result in continuous traumatic stress, a constant form of PTSD. Researchers have also linked experiences of violence and poverty to an increased risk of chronic disease such as cancer and cardiovascular, respiratory and neurodegenerative diseases. We are Black women and public policy and sociology professors who study ...
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