DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2021-12-14 Wartime Trauma Hits Close to Home for Scholar of Dementia Grace Galletti Oanh Meyer was a postdoctoral fellow studying the experiences of caregivers for those with dementia in 2012 when her research took a very personal turn. That year, her mother, a Vietnamese immigrant, began to show signs of dementia and paranoia that […]
2021-12-13 Sex Apps for Gay Men Join Forces to Fight Online Insults David Tuller Editor’s note: This article contains references to racial and ethnic slurs. Corey Baker, a gay man in Columbus, Ohio, has seen many dating app profiles that include phrases like “Blacks — don’t apply.” Sometimes when he declines invitations, he said, […]
2021-12-12 Grocery workers suffer the mental health effects of customer hostility and lack of safety in their workplace Many grocery store workers have experienced high rates of anxiety and depression during the pandemic. Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images Brian Mayer, University of Arizona; Melissa A. Barnett, University of Arizona; Mona Arora, University of Arizona, […]
Portugal: Bosses no longer allowed to contact workers outside working hours by Kontrast.at – The Portuguese parliament is set to pass a new labor law that will significantly improve working conditions for telework. Bosses must, for example, compensate employees for the additional costs for electricity and internet incurred when working from home. And for […]
Utah Makes Welfare So Hard to Get, Some Feel They Must Join the LDS Church to Get Aid by Eli Hager, photography by Kim Raff for ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Near the start of the […]
Spread Holiday Cheer Through Gifts That Give Back (Family Features) The holiday season is a time to spread cheer, spend time with loved ones and give back to those in need in both small and big ways. Individuals are often inspired this time of year to help transform the world into a better place by […]
2021-12-03 As Climate Worsens, Environmentalists Grapple With the Mental Toll of Activism Alex Smith, KCUR While growing up in the ’90s in Johnson County, Kansas, in a suburb of Kansas City, I had a friend, Kevin Aaron, who was a dedicated environmentalist. To strangers, Kevin appeared to be a laid-back punk-rock music fan […]
2021-12-03 Victims of domestic abuse find no haven in family courts Women’s reports of domestic violence are widely rejected by family courts. The Image Bank/Getty Images Joan Meier, George Washington University The #MeToo movement may have shifted the balance of credibility on sexual abuse and harassment at work more toward victims and away from alleged perpetrators. […]
“They Took Us Away From Each Other”: Lost Inside America’s Shadow Foster System by Lizzie Presser, photography by Elinor Carucci for The New York Times ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. When a staph infection killed Molly Cordell’s […]
World AIDS Day – December 1 World AIDS Day, observed each year on December 1, is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV, and remember those who have died from an HIV-related illness. Started in 1988, World AIDS Day was […]