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)

 

Happy Friday, sociologists! It is finals week here at WIP and so, like a student stumbling in with fifteen minutes left in the exam, our #FridayRoundup is a bit belated today. We hope you have a great weekend!

 

Sexual Harassment

• The Silence Breakers (Time Magazine)
• The Reckoning: Women and Power in the Workplace (New York Times)
• Will Women In Low-Wage Jobs Get Their #MeToo Moment? (FiveThirtyEight)
• At Columbia, Three Women, 30 Years and a Pattern of Harassment (New York Times)
• It’s Pretty Crazy to Be a Young Woman in Roy Moore’s Alabama (New York Times)

 

Net Neutrality

• Why Net Neutrality Was Repealed and How It Affects You (New York Times)
• Net Neutrality Was Never Enough (The Atlantic)

 

This Week in Washington

• Marco Rubio got a last-minute tax deal — but the poorest Americans got left out (Vox)
• Millions of Children Could Lose Health Coverage Starting Next Month (New York Times)
• Democrats say Trump to seek federal pay freeze and cuts to domestic security (Washington Post)

 

Race and Politics

• The past year of research has made it very clear: Trump won because of racial resentment (Vox)
• Stop asking black women to ‘save America.’ Start organizing your own people. (Washington Post)

 

In the Discipline

• Law Professor’s New Book Puts Ethnography on Trial (The Chronicle)

 

On Campus

• Stop the Generational Moralizing About Free Speech (The Chronicle)
• Intimidation Is the New Normal on Campus (The Chronicle)
• The Importance of Dumb Mistakes in College (New York Times)

 

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)

 

Happy Friday (and welcome back to those of you in U.S. who had holiday break last week!). Here is a collection of what we’ve been reading this week.

 

Cut, Cut, Cut

• Overlooked passage in GOP tax bill would gouge gig economy workers (Salon)
• Trump’s Red Line Is Holding Up Tax Cuts (New York Times)
• It Started as a Tax Cut. Now It Could Change American Life. (New York Times)
• Graduate students nationwide protest House tax bill, saying it could cost them thousands (LA Times)

 

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, New Jobs, Old Jobs

• Retail Jobs Don’t Need to Be Bad. Here’s Proof. (New York Times)
• When Algorithms Replace Post-Its: Artificial Intelligence Is Rewiring The Job Of A Lawyer (WBUR)
• Why ‘Made in America’ Is Stitched Into the Law, but Not the Uniforms (New York Times)

 

Gun Violence in America

• The wounds they carry (Washington Post)
• Immigrant Acquitted in Kathryn Steinle Case, Invoked by Trump (New York Times)

 

The Far Right

• The Making of an American Nazi (The Atlantic)
• Alt-right catches knight fever — but medieval scholars strike back (Salon)
• Nazi sympathizer profiled by the New York Times says he lost his job and — soon — his home (Washington Post)

 

On Campus

• When Public Scholarship Is a Crime (Inside Higher Ed)
• When Alumni Interviewers Screw Up, Things Get Weird (The Chronicle)
• How One College Has Set Out to Fix ‘a Culture of Blatant Sexual Harassment’ (The Chronicle)
• Texas State U. President Condemns Anti-Whiteness Student Op-Ed as ‘Racist’ (The Chronicle)

Happy Friday! Since next week is the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S., we’ll be on hiatus. See you all in December!

 

Transitioning

• Becoming a Women (The Chronicle)
• A small-town doctor wanted to perform surgeries for transgender women. He faced an uphill battle. (Washington Post)
• Pentagon Approves Gender-Reassignment Surgery for Service Member (New York Times)

 

Sexual Harassment

• They were sexually harassed at work. They reported it. Here’s what happened. (Washington Post)
• Don’t forget about the men who said they’ve been sexually assaulted, too (Washington Post)
• Here’s What Sexual Harassment Looks Like in Higher Education (The Chronicle)

 

Divided America

• The Tax Divide (Chicago Tribune)
  • Editor’s Note: This is an excellent three part series.
• The Great Migration: A Graphics Novel (Significance Magazine)
• Patterns Of Death In The South Still Show The Outlines Of Slavery (FiveThirtyEight)
• The Scholars Behind the Quest for Reparations (The Chronicle)
• ‘We demand more’: Student leaders across the country challenge politicians to combat hate (Washington Post)

On Campus

• Williams College president: Don’t ignore the real threats in the debate over free speech (Washington Post)
• Professors are losing their freedom of expression (Washington Post)
• Government analysis shows House tax bill would increase the cost of college by $71 billion over a decade (Washington Post)

 

Happy Friday from WIP! Here is a collection of what we’ve been reading this week.

 

Cut, Cut, Cut

• ‘I don’t feel wealthy’: The upper middle class is worried about paying for the tax overhaul (Washington Post)
• A Middle-Class Tax Cut? It Depends Who and Where You Are (New York Times)

 

Future of Work

• What The Data Tell Us About The Future Of Work In Massachusetts (WBUR)
• Final round of layoffs planned at Carrier plant Trump promised to save (Fox News)

 

Crime

• The Unsung Role That Ordinary Citizens Played in the Great Crime Decline (New York Times)
  • Editor’s Note: You can read Pat Sharkey’s original research article here in ASR.
• Mexico’s Record Violence Is a Crisis 20 Years in the Making (New York Times)
• The anatomy of mass shootings: a legacy of failure (The Guardian)

 

“Don’t Be Evil”

• Tech companies pushed for net neutrality. Now Sen. Al Franken wants to turn it on them. (Washington Post)
• Russian Money in Silicon Valley (The Atlantic)
• 3 Ways to Get More Women into Tech (The Chronicle)

 

The Environment

• America’s Wildest Place Is Open for Business (New York Times)
• In Lahore, Pakistan, Smog Has Become a ‘Fifth Season’ (New York Times)
• Donald Trump cannot halt US climate progress, former Obama adviser says (The Guardian)

 

On Campus

• A Contemporary Artist Is Helping Princeton Confront Its Ugly Past (The Atlantic)
• The New Campus Censors (The Chronicle)

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Happy Friday! Here is our latest compilation of news and essays we’ve been reading.

 

The Bail Trap

• The Bail Trap (New York Times Magazine)

 

Cut, Cut, Cut

• Republican Plan Delivers Permanent Corporate Tax Cut (New York Times)
• If House Republicans Get Their Way, These Colleges Would See Their Endowments Taxed (The Chronicle)
• The GOP Targets America’s Most Loved and Hated Tax Break (The Atlantic)

 

Gender and Sexuality

• How Queer History Finally Came into Its Own (Vice)
• It’s going to take more than 200 years to close the workplace equality gap. Here’s why it’s getting worse. (Washington Post)
• The Gender Pay Gap in Physics Persists (The Chronicle)
• Dartmouth probing multiple allegations against 3 barred professors (Boston Globe)

 

Blowing the Whistle

• New law targets managers who retaliate against federal whistleblowers (Washington Post)
• There’s Now a Whistleblower Hotline for Scientists Working Under the Trump Administration (Motherboard)
• SEC’s Whistleblower Chief Says Companies Heed Call Not to Silence Tipsters (National Law Review)

 

Changing Nature of Work

• With A Future Full Of Jobs To Fill, Training Programs Take Aim At Skills Gap (WBUR)
• Demand For Senior Home Care Grows, But Its Pay Remains Low (WBUR)
• What The Booming Gig Economy Means For The Future Of Work (WBUR)

 

On Campus

• The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country (The Atlantic)
• The Illiberal Demands of the Amherst Uprising (The Atlantic)
• Plan to Phase Out 2 Dozen Programs Stuns Faculty at Wisconsin-Superior (The Chronicle)
  • According to this source, Sociology is among the disciplines impacted at UW-Superior

It is Friday once again, which means it is time for our latest collection of the things we’ve been reading and watching this week. Happy Friday!

 

Gender & Family

• The Inequality Beneath the Sexual-Harassment Headlines (The Atlantic)
• When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life (The Atlantic)
• US teenager who won golf competition denied trophy because she is a girl (The Guardian)

When Work Disappears

• Where Internet Orders Mean Real Jobs, and New Life for Communities (New York Times)
• Why Big Cities Thrive, and Smaller Ones Are Being Left Behind (New York Times)

Media

• Los Angeles Times Newsroom, Challenging Tronc, Goes Public With Union Push (New York Times)
• Why The Athletic Wants to Pillage Newspapers (New York Times)

At Work

• I Let My Staff Work From Home, Then Realized It Wasn’t Working (NBC News)
• The Crisis Facing America’s Preschool Teachers (The Atlantic)

On Campus

• This Professor Wants to Teach Administrators Not to Cave In to Right-Wing Outrage (The Chronicle)
• U. of Arkansas System Considers Changes to Ease Tenured-Faculty Firings (The Chronicle)
• Higher Ed’s Message to Ex-Felons: No Second Chances (The Chronicle)
• Students want professor fired over ‘discriminatory and transphobic’ quiz (The Star)

 

Happy Friday! We’re excited to be back after our technical difficulties last week.

 

The Power Pose*

When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy (New York Times Magazine)

Beyond “power pose”: Using replication failures and a better understanding of data collection and analysis to do better science (Andrew Gelman)

 

When Work Disappears

Becoming a Steelworker Liberated Her. Then Her Job Moved to Mexico. (New York Times)

After the check is gone (The Washington Post)

The right way to help declining places (The Economist)

‘There’s no future for taxis’: New York yellow cab drivers are slowly drowning in debt (The Guardian)

 

Progress by the Dollar

How Money Became the Measure of Everything (The Atlantic)

 

On Campus

The Decline of the Midwest’s Public Universities Threatens to Wreck Its Most Vibrant Economies (The Atlantic)

Protesters heckle Richard Spencer at Univ. of Florida talk (CNN)

When Conservatives Suppress Campus Speech (New York Times)

College Advice I Wish I’d Taken (New York Times)

A better way to search through scientific papers (The Economist)

Oxford accused of ‘social apartheid’ as colleges admit no black students (The Guardian)

Here is our latest collection of the news and essays we’ve been reading. Happy Friday!

 

Equifax

Equifax makes money by knowing a lot about you (Seattle Times)

How the Equifax Hack Could Hurt Anyone Applying for a Job (The Atlantic)

 

At Work

It’s nine years since the recession. So why are employers still stingy with raises? (Washington Post)

The gender pay gap that still needs to be closed (The Economist)

The firm that brought us ‘Fearless Girl’ was underpaying women, U.S. government says (Washington Post)

 

Cuba

Clueless on Cuba’s economy (The Economist)

A ‘Sonic Attack’ on Diplomats in Cuba? These Scientists Doubt It (New York Times)

U.S. expulsion of Cuban diplomats includes all business officers (Reuters)

 

Gender

Super Awesome Sylvia was a role model to girls in science. Then he realized he is a boy. (Washington Post)

The Department of Justice Takes a Stand Against Transgender Rights in the Workplace (The Atlantic)

Should Universities Ban Single-Gender Discussion Panels? (The Chronicle)

 

Tensions on Campus

Confederate Flags With Cotton Found on American University Campus (New York Times)

After a Speaker Is Shouted Down, William & Mary Becomes New Flash Point in Free-Speech Fight (The Chronicle)

Racist Incidents Plague U. of Michigan, Angering Students and Testing Leaders (The Chronicle)

Death at a Penn State Fraternity (The Atlantic)