enough

2Apr

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EDUCATION

Pay College Students To Go To Bed – One Way To Help Students Get Enough Sleep

Small financial incentives can get college students to go to bed earlier and sleep significantly longer. That’s what my colleagues and I found through an experiment that involved 508 students at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Oxford. When the students were offered US$7.50 per night Monday through Thursday – a total of $30 per week – to sleep longer, they were 13% more likely than those who were not offered the incentive to sleep seven to nine hours. They were also 16% less likely to sleep fewer than six hours. We collected data from wearable activity trackers, surveys and time-use diaries. The people to whom the incentives were offered were chosen randomly from the group of people who agreed to be part of the study. The incentives were offered for three weeks, but th...

LGBTQ Advocates Are Split On Whether Biden Is Doing Enough To Protect The Community As Pride Month Closes

27Jun

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LGBTQ, POLITICS, TOP FOUR

LGBTQ Advocates Are Split On Whether Biden Is Doing Enough To Protect The Community As Pride Month Closes

For more than a year, as more than 300 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have been introduced into state legislatures and eight states have signed anti-LGBTQ bills into law, LGBTQ+ advocates have been waiting on President Joe Biden. “In the LGBTQ community, it is clear that our house is on fire,” said Mayra Hidalgo Salazar, deputy executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force. Advocates have been asking Biden — often hailed as a champion of LGBTQ+ equality— to put that fire out. But the response to the president’s Pride month executive order has been mixed: Many groups praised it. Others said nothing. A few publicly criticized it, saying it lacked teeth. During a reception with advocates on June 15, Biden signed the order aimed at curbing LGBTQ+ discrimination. The 13-point plan tasks the Depar...

In Preventing Older Americans From Lacking Enough Quality Food, Social Security Benefits Play Key Role

27Jun

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Journalism

In Preventing Older Americans From Lacking Enough Quality Food, Social Security Benefits Play Key Role

Social Security benefits make it easier for older Americans to afford the food they need to live a healthy, active life, according to our recently published research. Although this finding may seem obvious, to our knowledge this is the first study to directly examine the link between income from Social Security in old age and food insecurity, whereby a household can’t get adequate food because it has insufficient money and other resources. We used data from a unique national household survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, to examine changes in the ability of a household to purchase food from year to year. We focused on how just under 1,000 households receiving Social Security benefits for the first time or experiencing an increase in Social Security benefits affected their food ins...

Will There Be Enough School Mental Health Resources For Students Returning To School With Anxiety, Grief And Gaps In Social Skills?

23Aug

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EDUCATION

Will There Be Enough School Mental Health Resources For Students Returning To School With Anxiety, Grief And Gaps In Social Skills?

Education Sandra M. Chafouleas, University of Connecticut and Amy Briesch, Northeastern University Even before COVID-19, as many as 1 in 6 young children had a diagnosed mental, behavioral or developmental disorder. New findings suggest a doubling of rates of disorders such as anxiety and depression among children and adolescents during the pandemic. One reason is that children’s well-being is tightly connected to family and community conditions such as stress and financial worries. Particularly for children living in poverty, there are practical obstacles, like transportation and scheduling, to accessing mental health services. That’s one reason school mental health professionals – who include psychologists, counselors and social workers – are so essential. As many kids resume instruc...

2.4 Million US Seniors Get Enough To Eat While Meals On Wheels Volunteers Help Staving Off Loneliness

21May

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HEALTH & WELLNESS

2.4 Million US Seniors Get Enough To Eat While Meals On Wheels Volunteers Help Staving Off Loneliness

More than 2.4 million older adults are supported each year by Meals on Wheels, a program through which seniors and people with disabilities receive healthy and tasty meals for free from a network of volunteers. These efforts are usually organized through local senior centers and other community organizations across the U.S. that encourage the people who receive meals to make voluntary donations to cover at least part of the cost if that’s within their means. CC BY-NC-ND Services like this nonprofit meal delivery program, for which eligibility begins at age 60, are becoming more important than ever before. About 5.3 million people 60 and up, 7.3% of all Americans in that age group, experienced food insecurity in 2018 – meaning that their households couldn’t acquire adequate food bec...

Here’s What’s Happening In Los Angeles County – Americans Aren’t Getting Enough To Eat During The Pandemic

5Apr

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Journalism

Here’s What’s Happening In Los Angeles County – Americans Aren’t Getting Enough To Eat During The Pandemic

The number of Americans who can’t get enough food is rising from already troubling levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. About 1 in 10 Americans said in November 2020 that their household sometimes or often did not have enough to eat in the previous week, the U.S. Census Bureau found. Food insecurity – what happens when someone doesn’t have enough money for food – is just as bad in Los Angeles County, home to one-quarter of California residents. These roughly 10 million people live primarily in urban areas like the cities of Los Angeles, Malibu, Hollywood and Compton. The Los Angeles crisis surged the most in April, when 26% of all households – and 39% of low-income households – experienced food insecurity that month. By October, the situation had improved somewhat, with 11% of the county...

Big pharma’s safety pledge isn’t enough to build public confidence in COVID-19 vaccine – here’s what will

3Apr

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BUSINESS, HEALTH & WELLNESS

Big pharma’s safety pledge isn’t enough to build public confidence in COVID-19 vaccine – here’s what will

Americans are increasingly concerned that regulators and manufacturers will rush a vaccine to market without an adequate review. That prompted nine vaccine front-runners, including Pfizer and Merck, to promise to abide by clinical and ethical standards in an effort to increase the public’s confidence in any vaccine that ultimately comes to market. As a scholar of law, public health and bioethics, I have extensively studied vaccine policy, as well as the laws and regulations governing human subject research and FDA-regulated medical products. In my view, the pledge is little more than a public relations strategy, with companies simply reaffirming that they’ll follow FDA guidelines and standard scientific practices. While I doubt the biotech pledge will do much to increase public confiden...

Federal Pell Grants help pay for college – but are they enough to help students finish?

4Apr

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IN OTHER NEWS

Federal Pell Grants help pay for college – but are they enough to help students finish?

Pell Grants are one way the federal government helps people pay for college. During the 2020 to 2021 school year, eligible students can receive up to US$6,345 through the program, depending on where they go to school, how many classes they take and how much money their family makes. Despite this assistance, students who receive Pell Grants are less likely than other students to graduate from a four-year institution within six years: 51% versus 59% for students who first enrolled in 2010. Six years is the timespan the federal government uses to measure graduation rates. One reason for this disparity is that Pell Grant recipients tend to go to less selective colleges and universities. Graduation rates are lower for these institutions than for more selective institutions. For instance, at...

How Much Longer Will It Take, For You To Say, ENOUGH?

9Sep

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Journalism

How Much Longer Will It Take, For You To Say, ENOUGH?

Although, it seems, Americans may have an incredible degree of patience, and tolerance, at some point, one would think, they would, eventually, have, ENOUGH, of what we've been witnessing, for the last few years! Since, it is the voters, who created the present situation, by electing the present occupant of the White House, as well as some, seemingly, self - serving, other public officials, only they, will be able to change this situation! The apparent, combination of apathy, laziness, and, far, less - than, stellar attention, as well as some amount of focusing on individual, self - interest, rather than the common good, appears to have created, this monster, which, if we don't handle, soon, will create, many undesirable ramifications, into the future! With that in mind, this article wi...

No Sentence Long Enough for Pedophile Who Gave HIV to Two Kids

4Apr

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No Sentence Long Enough for Pedophile Who Gave HIV to Two Kids

A convicted child molester from Houston has been handed a life prison sentence, after a string of sickening child sex attacks that left one minor and one toddler with HIV. The court was told how 33-year-old David Wilson had spent more than two years rapinga 14-year-old girl, along with his own 23-month-old niece – all the time knowing he was HIV-positive.The predatory pedophile had already been sentenced to four years in prison back in 2005, when he was found guilty of sexually assaulting a child. Despite being fully aware of his HIV-positive status, he would go on to carry out more sickening attacks on two more children – one of which being one of his own family members.Wilson was brought in on charges of super aggravated assault of his own niece – the toddler having been sent to ...