Nancy Folbre and Dan Crane
Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, examines why mothers in the United States earn substantially less than women without children, in the Economix blog of the New York Times, “Feminists at Fault?”…Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, discusses “How to Fix the Census’s Broken Race Question” in USA Today…Robert S. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, presents his latest research explaining the paradox of why crime rates have dropped in the United States over the past 15 years, yet prison populations have soared in “Most prisoners come from few neighborhoods” in Science News…Linda Aiken, professor of nursing and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, released a new study documenting the direct connection between California’s safe nursing staffing standards and a reduction in patient deaths and post-operative complications, described on Boston.com in “Critical Care”…Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses “How Obama Can Rebound” in the New York Times… and Diane Ravitch, research professor of education and historian of education at New York University, examines mayoral control of urban school systems in The Washington Post.
