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Florida’s Abortion Ban Will Reach Well Beyond FloridaAugust 2021 Miles to nearest clinic offering abortions after 6 weeks 50 150 250 350 450 Source: Caitlin Myers, Middlebury College As of Wednesday, Florida has banned abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Florida, North Carolina and Virginia were the only states in the South offering abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. Women in several states will need to travel hundreds of miles farther to reach a clinic. Florida’s new ban could change that, researchers said — an illustration of how regional abortion access has become. If the amendment earns the support of 60 percent of voters, it will reverse the ban and protect abortion rights until about 24 weeks.

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☆ What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Résumés to U.S. Jobs
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | Josh Katz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

They changed applicants’ names to suggest that they were white or Black, and male or female — Latisha or Amy, Lamar or Adam. On average, they found, employers contacted the presumed white applicants 9.5 percent more often than the presumed Black applicants. One-fifth of the companies — many of them retailers or car dealers — were responsible for nearly half of the gap in callbacks to white and Black applicants. Two companies favored white applicants over Black applicants significantly more than others. They were AutoNation, a used car retailer, which contacted presumed white applicants 43 percent more often, and Genuine Parts Company, which sells auto parts including under the NAPA brand, and called presumed white candidates 33 percent more often.

Persons: Lamar, Adam Organizations: Genuine, Company Locations: NAPA

☆ Challenging Abortion, Again
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-25 | by ( Emily Bazelon | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

How safe is it to take abortion pills? The case could curtail Americans’ access to mifepristone, the first pill taken in a two-drug regimen for a medication abortion. A decision in the plaintiff’s favor would change the landscape of abortion not state by state, like the effects of the 2022 ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, but across the country. Post-Roe AmericaThe abortion opponents who sued the government in tomorrow’s case, F.D.A. v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, are frustrated by how common abortion has remained.

Persons: Roe, Wade, Margot Sanger, Katz, Claire Cain Miller Organizations: Alliance, Hippocratic Locations: United States

Four years ago this month, schools nationwide began to shut down, igniting one of the most polarizing and partisan debates of the pandemic. Some schools, often in Republican-led states and rural areas, reopened by fall 2020. Others, typically in large cities and states led by Democrats, would not fully reopen for another year. A variety of data — about children’s academic outcomes and about the spread of Covid-19 — has accumulated in the time since. Today, there is broad acknowledgment among many public health and education experts that extended school closures did not significantly stop the spread of Covid, while the academic harms for children have been large and long-lasting.

Organizations: Republican, Democrats Locations: Covid

☆ With Pandemic Money Gone, Child Care Is an Industry on the Brink
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-25 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Running a child care business has long been a very challenging math problem: Many providers can barely afford to operate, yet many parents cannot afford to pay more. The federal government spent $24 billion to keep the industry afloat. Many providers were given thousands of dollars a month, depending on their size, which they used to pay for expenses, the biggest of which was wages. In addition to the end of the monthly checks, providers’ costs have increased along with inflation — for food, supplies and liability and property insurance. Rising wages at food service and retail jobs have made it harder to recruit child care workers, one of the lowest-paying jobs in the country.

☆ What a Reported Trump Plan on Restricting Abortion Would Mean
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | Margot Sanger-Katz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A nationwide ban on abortions after 16 weeks of pregnancy — which Donald J. Trump is considering backing, according to a New York Times report — would prevent very few abortions in the United States. Mr. Trump, the front-runner to be the Republican presidential nominee, has not publicly spoken about the proposal. It would most likely keep in place more restrictive bans in the nearly half of states that have them, but would be a change for states where abortion remains largely unrestricted. Such a law, which would require congressional action, would affect only a small minority of women seeking abortions. Those women tend to have medically complicated pregnancies.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Roe, Wade Organizations: New York Times, Republican, for Disease Control Locations: United States

☆ Parents Are Highly Involved in Their Adult Children’s Lives, and Fine With It
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-09 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The popular conception has been that this must be detrimental to children — with snowplow parents clearing obstacles and ending up with adult children who have failed to launch, still dependent upon them. But two new Pew Research Center surveys — of young adults 18 to 34 and of parents of children that age — tell a more nuanced story. Most parents are in fact highly involved in their grown children’s lives, it found, texting several times a week and offering advice and financial support. Nine in 10 parents rate their relationships with their young adult children as good or excellent, and so do eight in 10 young adults. Rather than feeling worried or disappointed about how things are going in their children’s lives, eight in 10 parents say they feel proud and hopeful.

Organizations: Pew Research

Pandemic school closures upended U.S. education. Many students lost significant ground, and the federal government invested billions to help them recover. Students Are Making a ‘Surprising’ Rebound From Pandemic Closures. The students most at risk are those in poor districts, whose test scores fell further during the pandemic. The analysis did not include Asian students, who represent 5 percent of public school students.

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☆ Today’s Teenagers: Anxious About Their Futures and Disillusioned by Politicians
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Although it has never been easy to be a teenager, the current generation of young Americans feels particularly apprehensive, new polling shows — anxious about their lives, disillusioned about the direction of the country and pessimistic about their futures. Just one-third of respondents ages 12 to 17 said things were going well for children and teenagers today, in a survey published Monday by Common Sense Media, a children’s advocacy group. Less than half said they thought they would be better off than their parents when they grew up — a downbeat view shared among teenagers in many rich countries, other data shows. Members of Gen Z, ages 12 to 27, are significantly less likely to rate their current and future lives highly than millennials were when they were the same age, it found. That is a large decline from both 2013 and 2003, when just over half said so.

Persons: It’s, Gen Organizations: Sense, Gallup, Walton Family Foundation

The first data on births since Roe v. Wade was overturned shows how much abortion bans have had their intended effect: Births increased in every state with a ban, an analysis of the data shows. Until now, studies have shown that many women in states with bans have ended their pregnancies anyway, by traveling to other states or ordering pills online. What they have been unable to show is how many women have not done so, and carried their pregnancies to term. “The importance of our results is when you take away access, it can affect fertility,” said Daniel Dench, an economist at Georgia Tech and an author of the paper with Mayra Pineda-Torres of Georgia Tech and Caitlin Myers of Middlebury College. “When you make it harder, women can’t always get out of states to obtain abortion.”

Persons: Roe, Wade, —, ”, Daniel Dench, Mayra Pineda, Torres, Caitlin Myers, can’t Organizations: Institute of Labor, Georgia Tech, Torres of Georgia Tech, Middlebury College

She left her job at Walmart because it was too physical, but her current job is mentally taxing. Nearly every Republican in the poll rated the economy unfavorably, and 59 percent of Democrats did. Steven Cabrera, 35, who works for the military in Phoenix, was among the 57 percent of voters who said economic issues were a bigger priority than societal ones. He wanted to know: Is that the reason our economy is “slowing down?” He wasn’t sure, but he thought it might be. He plans to vote for “the Republican, any Republican,” he said.

Persons: Suzanne Haberkorn, won’t, “, Steven Cabrera, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, ” Organizations: Walmart, Research, Republican Locations: Waukesha, Wis, Phoenix, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez of New York, Ukraine

Some said he was too old, or they didn’t think he’d done much as president. Black voters in particular said they didn’t believe he was doing enough to help Black Americans. Though many said they’d probably vote for Mr. Trump, nearly all said that they weren’t excited about either option, and that Mr. Trump had personally offended them. A telephone call with a New York Times reporter is not the same as a conversation with friends or family. But it was an opportunity for a group of voters, some of them relatively disengaged, to think about the candidates, issues and campaigns.

Persons: Biden, they’d, Trump, hadn’t, It’s, Harris, Bridgette Miro, ” Organizations: Mr, New York Times Locations: Glendale, Ariz

☆ The ‘Silver Lining to the Pandemic’ for Working Mothers
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | More About Claire Cain Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Julia Keintz took a job leading analytics at Zillow two years ago, when her children were 6 months and 11. One of the reasons she wanted the job, she said, was that since the pandemic, Zillow has allowed employees to live where they want and work flexible schedules. She can give her older child an after-school snack and drive him to sports practices and bar mitzvah preparations. “Zillow is the first company I worked for where flexibility is an outwardly stated thing.”The share of women working in the United States increased rapidly starting in the 1970s, with the women’s movement. Economists have attributed this to the lack of family-friendly policies in the United States, like paid leave and subsidized child care.

Persons: Julia Keintz, Zillow, Ms, Keintz, “ Zillow Locations: San Francisco, United States

In the 12 months after the Dobbs decision in June 2022, there were on average 82,298 abortions a month, compared with 82,115 in the two months before Dobbs, WeCount found. The new data, released Tuesday, included 83 percent of known providers, and researchers estimated the remainder based on historical trends and abortion data from states. The report does not include abortions outside the U.S. medical system — such as ordering abortion pills from abroad or traveling across the border. The biggest increases in legal abortions occurred in states that border those with bans, suggesting that many patients traveled across state lines. In Florida, which bars abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy but is surrounded by states with stricter bans, abortions were up 28 percent, to 7,705.

Persons: Dobbs, WeCount, Abigail Aiken, Alexia Rice, Henry Organizations: Society of Family, Guttmacher, University of Texas, ARC Locations: Austin, New Mexico, Illinois, Florida

☆ New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-23 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | Francesca Paris | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

When we account for how few poor students take the test, by looking at all students, a new and greater disparity emerges. It’s a reflection of an inequality in American education that starts long before high school. New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American EducationNew data shows, for the first time at this level of detail, how much students’ standardized test scores rise with their parents' incomes — and how disparities start years before students sit for tests. And in the last five decades, as the country has become more unequal by income, the gap in children’s academic achievement, as measured by test scores throughout schooling, has widened. Parenting in places with less income inequality and more public investment in families is more playful and relaxed, research shows.

Persons: ”, Sean Reardon, Reardon, “, —, John N, Friedman, Brown, Raj Chetty, David J . Deming, Deming, Ann Owens, Owens, Rich, Chetty, “ It’s, Nate G, Hilger, Drew Angerer, Robert Putnam, “ ‘, you’re, “ They’ve, they’ve, Jesse Rothstein Organizations: ACT, of American Education, Opportunity, Harvard, Stanford Graduate School of Education, Chetty, University of Southern, Research, The New York Times, University of California Locations: University of Southern California, Berkeley

☆ Explore How Income Influences Attendance at 139 Top Colleges
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Aatish Bhatia | Claire Cain Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +8 min

Explore How Income Influences Attendance at 139 Top CollegesAt many selective private colleges, being very rich is a door to entry — students with parents earning in the top 1 percent attend at much higher rates than other similarly qualified students, new data shows. The data is available for 139 colleges, including the top private colleges according to Barron’s and many of the top public and private colleges in U.S. News & World Report. The researchers also had access to internal admissions data for several of the most elite private colleges. In much of the next tier of elite private colleges, rich students have a similar advantage. Even though college attendance rises with parental income, when it comes to educating the majority of America’s four-year college students, public universities play a vital role — regardless of how much their parents make.

Persons: Raj Chetty, Deming, Friedman, Professor Chetty, John N . Friedman of Brown, David J . Deming, ”, Jesse Rothstein, Chetty, They’re Organizations: U.S . News, Harvard, Dartmouth, Chetty, Ivy League, University of California, Stony Brook University, Carnegie Mellon Locations: U.S, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Berkeley, Los Angeles, California, Swarthmore, Wellesley

The American workers who have had their careers upended by automation in recent decades have largely been less educated, especially men working in manufacturing. But the new kind of automation — artificial intelligence systems called large language models, like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard — is changing that. The jobs most exposed to automation now are office jobs, those that require more cognitive skills, creativity and high levels of education. The workers affected are likelier to be highly paid, and slightly likelier to be women, a variety of research has found. In a majority of jobs, the models could do some of the tasks, found the analyses, including from Pew Research Center and Goldman Sachs.

Persons: Bard —, “ It’s, ”, Erik Brynjolfsson, Goldman Sachs Organizations: Stanford Institute for, Labor, Pew Research Center

It has been well established that legacies have an advantage in elite college admissions. But the new data was the first to quantify it by analyzing internal admissions records. They used more recent data, including the income tax records of graduates of the dozen top colleges in the study, to analyze their post-college outcomes. They estimated that legacy students were no more likely than other graduates to make it into the top 1 percent of earners, attend an elite graduate school or work at a prestigious firm. “This isn’t about unqualified students getting in,” said Michael Hurwitz, who leads policy research at the College Board and has done research on legacy admissions that found similar patterns.

Persons: Friedman, Raj Chetty, David J . Deming, Harvard —, ”, Michael Hurwitz, Biden Organizations: Harvard, College Board, Civil Rights, Education Department

The study — by Opportunity Insights, a group of economists based at Harvard who study inequality — quantifies for the first time the extent to which being very rich is its own qualification in selective college admissions. The result is the clearest picture yet of how America’s elite colleges perpetuate the intergenerational transfer of wealth and opportunity. Less than 1 percent of American college students attend the 12 elite colleges. For the several elite colleges that also shared internal admissions data, they could see other aspects of students’ applications between 2001 and 2015, including how admissions offices rated them. Share of admitted students who were recruited athletes at selected elite colleges Recruited athletes at elite colleges were much more likely to come from the highest-earning households.

Persons: ”, Susan Dynarski, Raj Chetty, John N . Friedman of Brown, David J . Deming, Christopher L, “, Neil Gorsuch, didn’t, Ivy, Dynarski, Pell, You’re, Michael Bastedo, Bastedo, John Morganelli, don’t, It’s, you’re, Jana Barnello, Stuart Schmill, “ It’s Organizations: Elite College, Ivy League, Opportunity, Harvard, Stanford, Duke, University of Chicago, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Princeton, Notre Dame, Public, University of Texas, University of Virginia, Fortune, University of Michigan, New York Times, Dartmouth, University of Michigan’s School of Education, Cornell, College Board, Brown, University of California Locations: M.I.T, America, Northwestern, N.Y.U, Austin, United States, California, U.C.L.A

More than a quarter said they would have to cut wages — from a median hourly wage of about $12. Nearly a third of providers, including 44 percent at those owned by minorities, said they might consider leaving their job or, in the case of home-based child care, closing altogether. “Federal funding made a huge difference,” said Julie Kashen, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and an author of the new report. Without the grants, she said, the center, which her parents started 40 years ago, would have closed during the pandemic. She used the money to raise hourly pay to $15 “because they all deserve it,” she said.

Persons: ”, Julie Kashen, Jen Whyte Organizations: Century Foundation Locations: Millcreek , Utah

☆ Everyone Says Social Media Is Bad for Teens. Proving It Is Another Thing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Research has not yet shown which sites, apps or features of social media have which effects on mental health. It’s also hard to prove that social media causes poor mental health, versus being correlated with it. Most studies measure time spent on social media and mental health symptoms, and many, though not all, have found a correlation. But other researchers say measuring time spent isn’t enough: In these studies, it’s unclear if time on social media is the problem, or if it’s time away from other things like exercising or sleeping. It has found that time spent on social media is less of a factor than teenagers’ moods while using it.

Persons: ”, Sophia Choukas, Bradley, It’s, Awesome Organizations: Teen, University of Pittsburgh, University of Amsterdam, Erasmus University Locations: Rotterdam

☆ Unwanted Epidurals, Untreated Pain: Black Women Tell Their Birth Stories
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | Sarah Kliff | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the doctors and nurses gave her medications or took her blood, she said, they gave her minimal explanation. Her career in marketing didn’t make a difference in how doctors and nurses saw them, she said, nor did his doctoral degree. Earning more and being well educated generally doesn’t protect Black mothers during childbirth the same way it protects white mothers. A new study of a decade of births in California, published this year, found that the richest Black mothers and their babies were twice as likely to die from childbirth as the richest white mothers and their babies. In interviews with Black women who responded to a request from The New York Times to share their birth stories, they described having their pain dismissed, concerns ignored and plans disregarded while giving birth.

☆ More U.S. Women Are Avoiding Unwanted or Mistimed Pregnancies
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There could also be an increase in the share of unwanted or mistimed births in states with new abortion bans. The United States has long had one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancy in the industrialized world. In 2015, just under a quarter of women said their pregnancy came too soon, a decline of 18 percent from 2009. There was also a slight decline of 5 percent, to 17 percent, in the share of pregnant women who said they did not want a baby at all. These declines were driven by younger women having significantly fewer unwanted pregnancies.

☆ What Is Mifepristone and How Is It Used?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | Margot Sanger-Katz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mifepristone is used as part of a two-drug regimen to end a pregnancy without surgery. Along with the second drug, misoprostol, it is known as medication abortion, or “the abortion pill” in common parlance. Mifepristone blocks a hormone called progesterone that is necessary for a pregnancy to continue. Misoprostol brings on uterine contractions, causing the body to expel the pregnancy as in a miscarriage. Growing evidence from overseas suggests that abortion pills are safe even among women who do not have a doctor to advise them.

☆ Virtual Clinics Have Been a Fast-Growing Method of Abortion. That Could Change.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Claire Cain Miller | Margot Sanger-Katz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A nascent but rapidly growing industry of abortion providers administers abortions only through telemedicine, with no physical clinics. A federal court ruling Wednesday that aims to ban the mailing of abortion pills could make it much harder for them to operate. Honeybee, which fills the prescriptions for most of them and is the largest mail-order pharmacy for abortion pills in the United States, said it would continue to mail the pills to the 24 states where it’s allowed. “As a licensed pharmacy, we abide by the F.D.A.’s policies and regulations,” said Jessica Nouhavandi, co-founder and president of Honeybee. Rulings in the lower courts, if they go into effect, could severely limit the availability of the drug, including allowing it to be administered only to patients in a doctor’s office.

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