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    How You Can Help the 13 Turpin Children Who Were Held Prisoner By Parents

    Mercury News Jan 22, 2018

    The story of the 13 children who deputies say were discovered being held prisoner in a Perris, Calif., home has shocked the world. But there’s a way to help the…

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    Encouraging Youth Development Through Sports in El Salvador

    UNICEF Jan 15, 2018

    Seven-year-old Natividad Sánchez Ventura is the youngest of ten children, and their daily life is predictably chaotic. After school, Natividad and her siblings return home where their mother is either…

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    Can Summer Jobs Reduce Crime Among Youth?

    Brookings Jan 14, 2018

    Summer youth employment programs (SYEPs) have become increasingly popular in cities and counties across the country, and are effective in reducing crime and incarceration among participants according to recent evaluations.…

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    Gun Laws Stop At State Lines. Guns Do Not.

    FiveThirtyEight Jan 5, 2018

    The relationship between state gun laws and the flow of firearms between states can be measured using data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which traces guns’ origins…

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    Will Women In Low-Wage Jobs Get Their #MeToo Moment?

    FiveThirtyEight Jan 4, 2018

    As male harassers and assaulters have been unmasked over the last few months, the reckoning has largely been confined to the realm of the white-collar worker, particularly in industries with…

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    New Program Reduces Domestic Violence Child PTSD

    Leap of Reason Ambassadors Community Dec 19, 2017

    Soon after Matt Huckabay started his job as executive director, he saw a baby, teen mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother arriving together for services at the Center for Violence-Free Relationships. Each of the women…

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    How Much Privacy Will We Give Up For Security In the Age of Deep Learning?

    The Hudson Institute Dec 16, 2017

    The swinish behavior currently exemplified by Harvey Weinstein is, sorry to say, a constant in history. This is America, where every human problem has a technological fix. So let us…

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    Mass Shootings In America Are A Domestic Violence Problem

    Huffington Post Dec 6, 2017

    It seems like there is no place in America that is immune to a mass shooting. Inside a darkened movie theater. At a nightclub throbbing with sweaty bodies. During Sunday services at church. At…

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    Stolen Childhood: Gang Violence in El Salvador

    UNICEF Dec 4, 2017

    Tears roll down her face. Through the sobbing, she describes how her family has suffered at the hands of one of the world’s deadliest street gangs. She pauses for a…

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    Melinda Gates Adds Her Voice to Sexual Harassment Conversation

    Mashable Nov 22, 2017

    Melinda Gates is adding her voice to the many women across the world speaking out about sexual harassment. The philanthropist and co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation published an…

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    Why This Onion Article Goes Viral After Every Mass Shooting

    The Washington Post Nov 14, 2017

    Another mass shooting has turned some corner of an American city or town into a scene of terror and chaos, and the death toll — one is too many —…

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    When Scientists Are Sexually Harassed in the Field

    The Atlantic Nov 13, 2017

    Last week, a day after The New York Times reported many years’ worth of sexual-harassment allegations against film producer Harvey Weinstein, another alarming report appeared, this one in Science magazine. The setting was different—Antarctic research expeditions,…

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