The current decline in welfare caseloads has been very rapid, especially since the 1996 welfare reform act, yet other problems such as continued poverty and economic insecurity are still common among former welfare recipients and are likely to increase, according to experts associated with the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research.
The University of Kansas will sponsor a conference Sept. 9, 10 and 11 titled "NATO: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow," to examine the role of the alliance during the Cold War, its adaptation to the present and its future role.
Don't schedule too many activities for your children. Although your intentions might be to provide your children with a wonderful childhood, you may be harming them in the process. So says a professor at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA.
In a study of in-home day care settings, Purdue University researchers measured the level of attachment security between caregivers and very young children. Several factors, including the age at which a child entered day care and the quality of the day care setting, predicted how well the caregivers and children would bond.
The plains Indians fought army outposts and infectious disease. But it was mis-use of the land that finally pulled in the reins on the Great Plains horse culture, asserts a University of Arkansas historian in his award-winning new book.
The time is ripe to amend the New Deal law that prohibits farm workers from bargaining collectively with their employers, two University of Illinois experts write in the coming issue of the Emory Law Journal.
In a pleasant, bright conference room on the University of Illinois campus, four professors and 13 students come together once a week to participate in a new interdisciplinary graduate seminar on terrorism.
Making friends is a natural thing for many kids. For others, it's not. And for a small but significant minority, the way they handle even minor conflicts within a friendship is a strong predictor that their friendships will be few, say two University of Illinois researchers.
The district attorney in Philadelphia, Mississippi is trying to reopen the Ku Klux Klan killings of the three civil rights workers that took place nearly 35 years ago. Charles Sallis of Millsaps College is an expert on this topic and the attempts to reopen the case.
Of the 3,000 student athletes who have attended Dr. Tom Jackson's violence prevention workshops, not one has since been charged with assault. The key to preventing violence among athletes is to distinguish between appropriate on-field and off-field behaviors.
The Monadnock Institute at Franklin Pierce College surveyed New Hampshire residents and among the survey's findings from 243 respondents: women reported a much higher level of attachment to (and satisfaction with) their place compared to men; income levels and home ownership seem to be strong predictors of place connection; and respondents who acknowledge watching four or more hours of TV per day expressed a significant disconnection from their place/community.
Gender is clearly no longer a liability for women considering a run for Congress, according to a Vanderbilt doctoral student who is researching the competitiveness of women candidates in the House of Representatives.
The 8th Annual Wheaton Theology Conference at Wheaton College (IL) looks at why religion makes good health sense. "Healing, Health and Spirituality: Evangelical Theology Engages Scientific Research" will bring international scholars to the campus April 8-10.
A United Nations statute to establish the first permanent International Criminal Court received overwhelmingly enthusiastic support from U.N. diplomats. A symposium examining how the new court will work will be held at the Cornell Law School Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6.
Former President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter have been chosen as the recipients of the inaugural Delta Prize for Global Understanding. The Delta Prize was created to recognize groups or individuals for "globally significant efforts that provide opportunities for greater understanding among nations and cultures."
A mother's employment outside of the home has no significant negative effect on her children, according to new research reported in the March issue of Developmental Psychology.
Economic clout in the hands of a powerful few, technology advances, and concern over America's role in a changing world order was the zeitgeist as Americans faced the new century 100 years ago, says a Swarthmore College historian.
Adolescent girls are more helpful and affectionate toward their parents than adolescent boys, new research at Ohio State suggests. In addition, mothers receive more help and affection from their children than do fathers.
"Spirituality, Healing, and Health: A Transformative Vision" is an international conference April 11-13 at the Holiday Inn City Center in downtown Tucson sponsored by The University of Arizona that will focus on healing as a transformative experience of one's interior life that leads to a state of spiritual well being and health.
The obvious decline of the traditional family, a trend marked by increasing rates of divorce and cohabitation, illustrates the paradoxical nature of Americans' hot and cold attitude toward marriage and family, says a University at Buffalo sociologist.
The Y2K issue and heart defibrillators on airplanes will be some of the topics discussed at this year's annual SMU Air Law Symposium sponsored by the Journal of Air Law and Commerce at Southern Methodist University.
At a national conference on March 10-13, 1999, in Baltimore, Maryland, presenters will review the latest scientific findings and assess ongoing research needs on worker stress associated with dramatic changes in the nature and organization of work
Philadelphia and Baltimore television stations too often paint an inaccurate portrait of violent crime, leaving viewers feeling frightened, helpless and uninformed about real dangers, a University of Delaware researcher says in a new report.
Social Security can be saved by raising the earliest retirement age for benefits to 65 from 62, a Cornell University social security expert told a Congressional subcommittee this week.
For three decades social scientists have had little success in figuring out how a person's race affects the outcomes of crimnal cases. Now University of Washington researchers have found that court reports prepared prior to sentencing by probation officers consistenly portray black and white juvenile offenders differently, leading to harsher sentencing recommendations for blacks.
A new book published by Resources for the Future (RFF) provides teachers and students, the public policy community, and interested citizens with short and readable articles on a wide variety of environmental research and policy topics.
According to University of Michigan researchers, the Protestant ethic also makes overweight women feel bad about themselves.
Imagine a community park in Appalachia created to celebrate the area's social history and help solve acid-mine drainage problems. Or a wetlands area on a busy university campus that makes storm-water management an integral, visible part of the designed landscape.
The advantage of privilege based on gender, skin-color, age, ability or socio-economic factors will be discussed by the associate director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 at the Institute of the Americas on the University of California, San Diego campus.
Joblessness, not race, is the key predictor of all forms of violent death -- homicide, accidental death and suicide -- according to a study by University of Washington demographers who looked at census data and vital records for Chicago. They also found the average life expectancy for poor black males dropped by 1 1/2 years between 1970 and 1990.
Before you get your sweetheart's name tattooed you-know-where this Valentine's Day, heed the studies of a University of Arkansas researcher who says you may be succumbing to a needle-friendly social fad.
Married couples who see each other as equals are more likely to have larger increases in blood pressure while arguing than couples who have either a highly dominate or submissive partner, according to new research from the University of Utah.
A new study on premarital relationship development in this month's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology explores how love improves over time for romantic couples if satisfaction and commitment increase too. Satisfaction and commitment were as, or more, important than love for couples in their desire to stay together, according to llinois State University researchers.
Ethics professors lead 2-day conference at Johns Hopkins University, working with police on applying ethics to daily police decisionmaking
Married couples who see each other as equals are more likely to have larger increases in blood pressure while arguing than couples who have either a highly dominate or submissive partner, according to new research from the University of Utah.
A U.S. Education Dept. grant will help center help policy makers help people with disabilities find and keep meaningful, well-paid work.
With the celebration of Black History Month in February, Americans look back on the civil rights movement in many ways. But a researcher at the University of Arkansas offers a startling new perspective -- one that reminds us how lucky we were.
The cause of much of the conflict between the sexes isn't just that men are not monogamous. According to a University of Michigan author, the underlying trouble is that we humans are anisogamous---we have sex cells of unequal size.
St. Lawrence University Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett is hoping to draw attention to a community he visited in South Africa last year, and that the attention will result in government assistance to move the community's residents to a safer environment.
Cohabitation tends to attract people with different economic circumstances than those who opt directly for marriage, says Marin Clarkberg, assistant professor of sociology at Cornell University. Men and women with less stable job histories tend to cohabitate as do higher-earning women but lower-earning men.
If you're planning to buy your Valentine the standard $5 box of no-name chocolates this year, you may get more than you bargained for. In a consumer behavior study on chocolate, University of Utah marketing professors found that the ostensibly innocuous candy is emotionally charged and capable of eliciting feelings of guilt and uncontrolled desire, causing some women to hoard, hide or even steal chocolate from others and some men to actively police the consumption of their feminine companions.
University of San Francisco professor can discuss change of leadership in Jordan after King Hussein's passing.
The best solution to the Y2K problem is snarled in a web of human organizational behaviors, says Allan Hanson, cultural anthropologist at the University of Kansas. Hanson argues that the Y2K solution requires a maximum flow of information. Cooperation, not competition, is needed to find solutions for this complicated problem.
With Valentine's Day approaching, love is in the air. It's also in the brain, more deeply ingrained than language itself. Romantic love - i.e., the act of falling love, not to be confused with that other basic instinct, lust - is a primal emotion as basic as fear, according to a Vanderbilt University researcher.
Seeing witnesses during the impeachment trail will not help senators determine the truth, says a University of Virginia authority on lying. In more than 100 studies of people with no special training in detecting deception, such as the senators, accuracy in determining lying averages only 54 percent.
People engaging in frequent sexual activity are also reducing their risks of getting the common cold, according to a study, "The Effect of Sexual Behavior on Immune System Function," by researchers at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
In a study of reactions to a scary movie, Purdue University communication researchers found that some people will tell you that they were not frightened, but physical measures indicate otherwise.
A combination of an insecure man with a dismissive woman may make domestic violence more likely in a relationship, a new Ohio State University study suggests.
When 11-month-olds at an Ohio State University laboratory school want to eat, they don't have to cry: they can use their hands to sign for a bottle. As part of a pilot program, infants as young as 9 months old and their teachers have learned to use sign language.
A new book highlights five controversial "Crimes of the Century," exposing much more than the underlying tensions of our criminal justice system. The cases -- including Leopold and Loeb (1924), Scottsboro (from 1931), Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1932), Alger Hiss (1949) and O.J. Simpson (1994) -- also offer provocative insights into the nation's passions, politics and prejudices.
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