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Is Mental Illness Over-diagnosed? Backlash Over The New DSM-V : Among the changes in the new revision, the manual authors have reclassified mental retardation and autism as psychiatric diagnoses, renaming the conditions as an "intellectual disability" and "autism spectrum disorder ," respectively. The new revision ... Medical Daily

The New York Times on race and class: What determines social mobility in America ? - In recent weeks, the New York Times has promoted a new study by researchers from the US Census Bureau, Harvard and Stanford that examines the impact of race and income inequality in the United States over the course of an entire generation. The March 2018 working paper, published by the ...

Your new iPhone's features include oppression, inequality and tax avoidance - Whatever marvels have been shoved into the new iPhones, the devices serve to increase the gulf between the super-rich and the rest of us, deny countries of rightful tax revenues, and oppress Chinese workers even while depriving Americans of high-paying jobs. Arrogant towards critics and governments, glutted with cash and yet plainly out of ideas, Apple is elegant shorthand for a redundant economic system. One of those attempted suicides, a 17 year old called Tian Yu, flung herself from the fourth floor of a factory dormitory and ended up paralysed from the waist down. Speaking later to academic researchers, she described her working conditions in remarkable testimony that I then covered for the Guardian. She was essentially a human battery hen, working over 12 hours a day, six days a week, swapped between day and night shifts and kept in an eight-person dorm room. When the historians of globalisati...

The new US tax bill will be bad for everyone's well-being, even those who profit from it -  Americans are happier when income inequality is lessened—under the new tax bill, it is set to expand. On a somewhat similar note, researchers have shown that generally speaking, Americans are happier when income inequality is lessened—under the new tax bill, it is set to expand. In addition ...

The New Face of 'Poverty' : "In what the New York Times calls "a strange twist," they've become symbols of poverty . Arkansas and Mississippi, those perennial economic laggards, "find themselves at the top of a new state ranking: They have the highest concentrations of people in ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA AFRICA | English | Las Américas

Justice, Anyone? — Book Explores How the American Judicial System Perpetuates Discrimination - This compilation of documents, including official court documents, numerous case studies, and the damning 1991 report of the New York State Judicial Commission on Minorities, outlines how judges, prosecutors, and police officials blatantly abuse their authority, suborn police perjury and utilize other illegal practices and procedures to deprive minorities of their constitutional rights under the guise of judicial process. Hicks, an accomplished jailhouse lawyer who served time in New York’s infamous Attica State Prison in the 1980s, wrote the book to bring to light procedures that the judicial system uses to perpetuate inequality and that result in statistics such as the following: minority imprisonment rates in New York are more than ten times the imprisonment rate for whites, yet minorities make up only twenty-two percent of the state population.

The New York Public Library's LGBTQ Archives Are a Treasure Trove of Queer Vintage Photos - You may have heard about the digitized archives available to the public at the New York Public Library, but we were so overwhelmed by all the cool ...

New Lufkin methadone clinic clears the air Edwards Jacobs was once the owner of the Methadone Clinic of East Texas here in Lufkin. Now East Texas News has learned the clinic is still operating, but under a new owner, the Dallas-based Behavior Health Group. According to the new director, Steve ...

Is This The First LGBTQ Moment In The New Star Wars Comics?  - Marvel's Star Wars comics are considered part of the canon now. Along with the new books, they are being written and published as part of one whole ...

Report places New Orleans' homeless rate at second in the nation By Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune With a homeless population estimated at almost 6700, the New Orleans metro area has the second-highest rate of homelessness in the nation. So says a new report from the National Alliance to End Homelessness .

How the Disappearing Middle Class Threatens Our Democracy - Legal scholar Ganesh Sitaraman’s new book, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution, is an important read in these times of increasing economic inequality. E.J. Dionnne tweeted: “To understand the stakes in the #Gorsuch confirmation battle and our larger judicial debate, read @GaneshSitaraman‘s brilliant new book.” Reviewing it for The New York Times, Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton wrote, “In his fine book, both history and call to arms, Ganesh Sitaraman argues that the contemporary explosion of inequality will destroy the American Constitution, which is and was premised on the existence of a large and thriving middle class.”

Medical Marijuana Bill Wins in the New York... : On Monday, a bill that would allow medical marijuana use sailed through the New York State Assembly, passing with a clean 95-38. If the bill makes it through the Senate, folks with "severely debilitating or life-threatening conditions" could be ...

Is rural America the new inner city? - Mostly, though, the collapse of those industrial cities brought poverty and the despair that comes with ... Rural America has become the new inner city.

How the new medical marijuana rules will punish patients  - There have been numerous discussions surrounding the anticipated “billion dollar” medical marijuana industry. The new federal regulations – the  ...

Cleveland Browns Methadone: The New Show To Aid Your Cleveland Sports ... : This is the Debut of a new Cleveland Browns that will air at 1:00 on Sunday afternoons while the we await another season of futility on the field. Each show will have The Cleveland Leader founder Eugene McCormick talk with co-host Danny Feedback, ...

Why The HIV/AIDS Community Should Care About the New Medicare Panel : "Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. ... See all stories on this topic » "

The new guidebook for understanding mental illness  - But many Americans with mental health disorders aren't as fortunate. APA leaders hope the new book will help close the gap between recognizing ...

Examining the New 2010 Census Data on Poverty, Health Insurance Coverage, and ... : The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities will hold a conference call briefing for journalists Tuesday, September 13 , at 1:30 pm (ET) to examine the new Census Bureau data for 2010 on poverty , health insurance coverage, and income trends that will be ... العالم العربي (AR) | ASIA | AFRICA | English | Las Américas

The final season of iconic Netflix series Orange Is the New Black premieres this Friday and in a new featurette, the cast and crew say goodbye to the ... View article...

Why You Need To See The Movie Kiki - The new documentary film Kiki tells the story of those people, and the lives they lead as members of New York’s underground ballroom community. Kiki picks up over two decades after Paris Is Burning introduced mainstream audiences to the performative practice of voguing and balls. This update to the genre focuses specifically on the Kiki scene, which “was created within the LGBTQ youth-of- color community as a peer-led group offering alternative family systems (“houses”), HIV awareness teaching and testing, and performances geared towards self-agency” according to the film’s website. These performances of gender, which often include “stylized femininity,” are put on display at local balls. What separates Kiki from Paris Is Burning is that the story is finally told to the outside by those on the inside.