Tag: quick reads
Why having fewer OSHA inspectors matters
David Weil, Brandeis University
CC BY-NDIn many industries, such as construction, transportation, warehousing and health care, the workplace is dangerous. In 2018 alone, 5,250 workers...
Coronavirus unemployment at nearly 15% is still shy of the record...
Jay L. Zagorsky, Boston University
CC BY-NDThe U.S. unemployment rate jumped from 4.4% in March to a roughly 90-year high of 14.7% in April.
But could...
Why apparel brands’ efforts to police their supply chains aren’t working
Jason Judd, Cornell University and Sarosh Kuruvilla, Cornell University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
For years, apparel brands...
3 innovations helping the homeless in Eugene, Oregon
Mohamed Hassan Awad, California State University, Los Angeles
Even when the economy is booming, the United States has trouble figuring out how to deal with...
Income inequality is getting worse in US urban areas
Brian Thiede, Pennsylvania State University; David L. Brown, Cornell University; Jaclyn Butler, Pennsylvania State University, and Leif Jensen, Pennsylvania State University
Income inequality has increased...
With schools everywhere suspended, an education expert answers 4 questions about...
Jon Pedersen, University of South Carolina
Most of the school systems that shut their doors due to the COVID-19 outbreak initially said these closures would...
3 smart ways to use screen time while coronavirus keeps kids...
Rebecca Dore, The Ohio State University
As families everywhere adjust to social distancing measures like closed schools and child care centers, workplaces and more, parents...
America’s poorest children won’t get nutritious meals with school cafeterias closed...
Thurston Domina, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Schools aren’t only places where kids learn. They are also places where kids eat.
Thanks to the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
