Friday Roundup – December 8, 2017

 

Today we’ve adding a new element to our Friday news roundups – “The Lede”. We’ll use this space to feature reporting along with social science research on a topic that has been in the news. We hope you find it interesting!

 

The Lede – Race, Childbirth, and Mortality

ProPublica and NPR have been reporting on maternal mortality all year. We’ve linked to some of their major stories below along with some related reporting from Vox.com, which published the video embedded above on race and childbirth. We’ve also linked to some articles on poor birth outcomes more generally in the U.S.

• The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth (ProPublica)
• Nothing Protects Black Women From Dying in Pregnancy and Childbirth (ProPublica)
• Lost Mothers (ProPublica)
• Why Giving Birth Is Safer in Britain Than in the U.S. (ProPublica)
• California decided it was tired of women bleeding to death in childbirth (Vox)

 

• Low birthweight among immigrants in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States (Social Science & Medicine)
• Contextualizing racial disparities in preterm delivery: A rhetorical analysis of U.S. epidemiological research at the turn of the 21st century (Social Science & Medicine)
• Very Low Birthweight in African American Infants: The Role of Maternal Exposure to Interpersonal Racial Discrimination (American Journal of Public Health)

 

Taxes in America

• What happened when North Carolina cut taxes like the GOP plans to for the country (Washington Post)
• ‘I don’t think it’s going to help’: In a pro-Trump area, many voters are skeptical of GOP tax plan (Washington Post)
• The GOP is trying to pass a super-unpopular agenda — and that’s a bad sign for democracy (Vox)

 

At Work

• Racism Is Stopping Black Men From Solving Our Nursing Shortage (Slate)
  • Editor’s Note: This is written by OOW Section member Adia Harvey Wingfield.
• Robots Will Transform Fast Food (The Atlantic)
• How Harvard’s Hypocrisy Could Hurt Your Union (New York Times)

 

Thinking About “Science”

• There’s No Such Thing As ‘Sound Science’ (FiveThirtyEight)
• The Republican War on Economics (New York Magazine)

 

On Campus

• The Case for Affirmative Action (U.S. News & World Report)
• The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone (The Atlantic)
• Elitists, crybabies and junky degrees (Washington Post)
• Chinese power ‘may lead to global academic censorship crisis’ (Times Higher Education)