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Teaching Empathy to the ‘Me’ Generation

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Eric Leake - Jul. 18 (Special Report) - A Midwestern university experiments in teaching empathy not merely through classroom curriculum, but by having students live the lives of the working poor. The six participating students and their community partners are introduced in turn. Diana Crandall, a first-year psychology major in a smart black jacket and tie, talks about the children she worked with through the Children’s Hunger Alliance. “I know that I can’t walk away from this and be the same person I was before.”

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Should Medicaid Be Federalized? - Miller-McCune

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Melinda Burns - Jul. 17 (Special Report) - On top of their normal caseloads, Sinclair’s four clinics are seeing 400 new patients per month, a record. No one is ever turned away, regardless of his or her ability to pay. Yet this month, state Gov. Jerry Brown signed a budget that cuts funding for Medicaid — a federally funded, state-administered program for the poor that goes by the name Medi-Cal in California — by $2 billion.

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PTSD Affecting U.S. Soldiers More Than British

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Jun. 23 (Research) - Combat stress is still a murky and sometimes taboo element of soldiering, but one of the strangest discoveries is that the strain isn’t evenly spread among vets from different countries. For example: A far higher percentage of American soldiers suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder after combat in Iraq and Afghanistan than British soldiers do.

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Bad Credit Reports Put Job Seekers in Catch-22

Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By John Greenya - Jun. 03 (Special Report) - More employers are subjecting job applicants to credit checks as a tool to determine honesty and responsibility, but is that accurate, or legal?Bad Credit Reports Put Job Seekers in Catch-22 On Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune. - Miller-McCune

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USDA Puts Food Deserts On the Map

Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - May. 06 (Special Report) - It’s ‘soda, soda everywhere and not a vitamin in sight’ across swaths of America identified in the USDA’s new online ‘food desert locator map.

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Federal Contractors May Be Told to Disclose Donations

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Apr. 29 (Special Report) - In an end run around the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision it disliked, the Obama administration is considering having all federal contractors disclose their political donations

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A Professional Military and the Privatization of Warfare

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Jeff Shear - Apr. 22 (Special Report) - The antics of private military contractors are increasingly known, and they're the ones taking over for departing uniformed American troops in Iraq.

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Teddy Bears Soften Pain of Social Exclusion | Miller-McCune

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:33:29 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Tom Jacobs - Apr. 14 - New research from Singapore suggests touching a stuffed animal can counteract the tendency of ostracized people to engage in antisocial behavior.Teddy Bears Soften Pain of Social Exclusion On Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune. - Miller-McCune

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An Anti-Science Mania Takes over GOP

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:12:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Robert Benson - Mar. 21 - The current vogue among a majority of national-level elected Republicans to reject the validity of the scientific consensus on climate change recalls the anti-evolutionary furor seen in the Scopes Monkey Trial.

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U.S. faced 14 Nuclear Near-Misses last Year | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Mar. 17 (Special Report) - In a report planned before Japan’s Fukushima disaster, the Union of Concerned Scientists suggests that U.S. nuclear regulators are way too complacent about the possibility of a catastrophe.

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How Hugo Boss Lost a Cleveland Union Battle

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Laura Putre - Mar. 09 (Special Report) - But perhaps the most effective strategy was getting a dozen or so state pension funds with investments in Hugo Boss’ parent company, the European private equity firm Permira, to apply pressure to keep the plant open. Workers United President Bruce Raynor says that when the plant closing was announced, the union’s strategic affairs department got busy with research and soon learned that the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System was a major investor in Permira, as were about a dozen other state pension funds.

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GOP Examines Ways to Block Health Care Reform

Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Joanne Kenen - Mar. 02 (Special Report) - Partisan opponents of last year's omnibus health care reform in the U.S. have a multitude of legislative tactics they can summon to keep the law from taking effect.

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Drug Testing Welfare Recipients in Vogue | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Feb. 25 (Special Report) - Proposals to test Americans on the dole for illegal drugs seem grounded more in stereotypes and less in data.

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Democracy No. 11 on Realpolitik’s Top 10 List

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Feb. 15 (Special Report) - “That’s pretty much consistent with my argument,” Tufts political scientist Daniel Drezner said of the reaction to Egypt. He’s argued that the American public favors realist foreign policy goals much more than policymakers tend to think (and considerably more than our own national narrative would indicate).

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The Social Cost of Carbon

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:21:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Judith D. Schwartz - Feb. 15 (Special Report) - The social cost of carbon, or SCC, is the value in today’s dollars of the stream of damages caused by adding one metric ton of CO2 into the atmosphere; a ton is the amount a typical family car will emit every 10 weeks. The SCC figure adopted last Februar

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Applying the Doha Debates to Egypt

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Nivien Saleh - Feb. 14 (Special Report) - In an open letter to the organizers of Egypt’s uprising, international studies professor (and ethnic Egyptian) Nivien Saleh suggests a tool for crafting real democracy.

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Improving Tax Systems May Involve Adding More Credits

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Katherine Pratt - Feb. 08 (Opinion) - Our tax code also provides tax subsidies in the form of “exclusions,” meaning that the excluded item is not treated as income and is not taxed. An example is the income tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance (ESI), which drives up the cost of healthcare and disproportionately benefits taxpayers whose employers provide “Cadillac” health insurance plans.

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U.S. Ponies Up For Rail | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Todd - Feb. 08 (Opinion) - The Obama administration has come through with some serious money for high-speed rail, but arguments that this might be money ill spent don’t spring solely from political nay-saying.

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Texas Children: Canaries in the Coal Mine

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Pamela Oldham - Jan. 25 (Special Report) - A report by the nonpartisan Texans Care for Children finds that glaring social problems borne by Texas' children have resulted from its state government's policies.

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Spiderman on Broadway? ‘Been There, Done That,’ Say Ants

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Todd - Jan. 24 (Interview) - Insect biologist Rob Dunn has uncovered a hot spot of insect biodiversity.

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Rx for Catastrophe

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:55:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Melinda Burns - Jan. 23 (Review) - A book on disaster law and policy urges stronger federal intervention to shore up natural barriers and protect the most vulnerable members of the community. A photograph of a bayou in Louisiana. One law professor looks at disaster law and policy in the

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Nature’s Cooling Albedo Disappearing faster Than Thought

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Todd - Jan. 22 (Special Report) - The loss of sea ice is a concern for more than polar bears, as the loss of reflectivity it represents means the planet may warm even faster.

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Following the Money a Year After Citizens United

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Jan. 20 (Special Report) - Observers thought heaps of anonymous cash would flood U.S. campaign coffers after the controversial Supreme Court decision. They were right.

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Charter Schools: What Would Dr. King Say?

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By James Horn - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - The segregative effects of charter schools, when compared to public schools, remain an empirical fact, notwithstanding Mr. Smith’s rhetorical squirming and recycled arguments against one of two research studies from 2010 that echo other studies like the ones linked above that document the same tendency toward apartheid.

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America Not as Politically Conservative as You Think| Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. Miller-McCune.

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Lee Drutman - Jan. 14 (Special Report) - But new research suggests that pundits ought to be cautious of overinterpreting the conservative label: It doesn’t always mean what they think it means: Only a quarter of self-identified “conservatives” may actually be true conservatives on the issues — less than the 30 percent of whom are not conservative at all, but simply like the label.

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