Friday Roundup – December 22, 2017

Happy Friday! This is our final post of the year, and we’ve got a big 2018 planned for Work in Progress so stay tuned. In the meantime, here are the stories that we’ve been reading this week.

The Lede – Homelessness

“The Lede” is our occasional Friday Roundup section that provides a mix of a prominent news story and some recent social science on the same topic. This week we are featuring The Guardian Newspaper’s  visually stunning and heart wrenching look at the practice of one-way bus ticket purchases for individuals who are street homeless:

• Bussed out: How America moves its homeless (The Guardian)

Here are a few other recent stories about homelessness that caught our attention:

• Report: 80 homeless people died on Portland streets in 2016 (AP)
• Crime-fighting robot retired after launching alleged ‘war on the homeless’ (Washington Post)
• Homeless scoff at SF strategy of dumping boulders at camp site (San Francisco Chronicle)
• L.A.’s twin disasters — rising homelessness and spiraling rents — have the same DNA (Los Angeles Times)
• The Number of Homeless People in America Increased for the First Time in 7 Years (Mother Jones)
• A Hard Knock Life for London’s Rough Sleepers (New York Times)

Here is a selection of recent articles on homelessness in the United States:

• From ’Rabble Management’ to ’Recovery Management’: Policing Homelessness in Marginal Urban Space (Urban Studies)
• Our Lives Matter: The Racialized Violence of Poverty among Homeless Mothers of Color (Sociological Forum)
• Moving on, finding shelter: The spatiotemporal camp (International Sociology)

 

At Work

• Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads (ProPublica)
• How Tough Is It to Change a Culture of Harassment? Ask Women at Ford (New York)
• How to Get American Men Back Into the Workforce (Wall Street Journal)

 

Changing Policy on Taxes and Immigration

• As Trump Tightens Legal Immigration, Canada Woos Tech Firms (New York Times)
• How the Tax Plan Will Send Jobs Overseas (The Atlantic)
• Republicans Promised to Simplify the Tax Code. They’re Making It Way More Complicated. (Mother Jones)

 

Social Problems

• The latest data makes it official: 2016 was by far America’s worst year for drug overdose deaths (Vox)
• U.N. Investigator On Extreme Poverty Issues A Grim Report — On The U.S. (NPR)
• High Temperatures Are Already Sending Refugees to Europe (The Atlantic)

 

Policing in America

• The Criminalization of Gentrifying Neighborhoods (The Atlantic)
• This Nightmare Court Ruling Could Put Lots of Bad Police Officers Back on the Streets (Mother Jones)