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Making the News: Pandemic Pods, Mask On/Mask Off, and More on The School Reopening Debate
As the coronavirus pandemic...
Making the News: Parenting and Racism, Helping Families Talk about the Present Moment
The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in late May has sparked protests and global outcry. His death came on the heels of a series of police and civilian murders of unarmed Black citizens, amid a global pandemic disproportionately killing Black...
Making the News: Child Care is the “X” Factor in Reopening the Economy Contd.
Making the News: Child Care is the “X” Factor in Reopening the Economy
As the country heads into its third month of sheltering in place and states gradually reopen, a key question is looming large in the minds of parents, economists and elected officials alike: Who will care for the children when parents are called back to work? Unlike...
Making the News: Parenting in a Pandemic, Keeping it Together in an Upended World
Since March, schools and child care centers throughout the nation have closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, thrusting many parents and caregivers into new and unfamiliar roles as full-time educators. When added to the sudden shift to remote work, the closure of...
Making the News: New Normal: How COVID-19 has impacted children, families and communities
The world is currently grappling with an unprecedented upending due to the spread of the novel coronavirus. In the tumult, children and families are finding themselves in new and unforeseen environments and configurations. While this column, Making the News, typically...
Making the News: Paid Family Leave Cont.
Presidential Election 2020 Refinery 29: Where The 2020 Presidential Candidates Stand On Paid Family LeaveOn Tuesday afternoon, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Rosa DeLauro reintroduced the Family And Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act, which would create a national...
Making the News: Who Really Pays for Family Leave? Who Should? A Conversation Worth Having
Did you know 40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense? Now imagine that emergency expense comes in the form lost wages. Missing just three days of work from a $15-an-hour job to care for a family member in poor health or from caring for a newborn child...
Making the News: California Surgeon General Dr. Nadine Burke Harris and a Revolutionary Approach to Public Health
In the late 1990s, U.S. health maintenance organization Kaiser Permanente conducted a 17,000-person study linking adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with poor health outcomes later in life. The study, known as the ACE Study, looked at ten specific types of adverse...