Hedy (Hedwig) Lee 🇻🇮 🇵🇷
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Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is….A Lot
I just witnessed the lynching of a black man, but don’t worry Ted, I’ll have those deliverables to you end of day.
On racial equity and justice
The ongoing racial violence that we are witnessing against people of color is nothing short of devastating. As a community, we are united in our commitment to justice and racial equity.
Chris Cooper Is My Brother. Here’s Why I Posted His Video.
We grew up in a family of activists. I wanted everyone to see his calm bravery.
The Only Solution Is to Defund the Police
The murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor prove what we already knew—police ‘reform’ has failed.
Police kill about 3 men per day in the US, according to new study
Official records on police homicides are full of holes. A new study tries to fill in the gaps – and finds new evidence of racial and regional inequality.
Antiracism work is all of our work
Dear members of the UW community,
Housing Hardships Reach Unprecedented Heights during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Social Policy Institute | Washington University in St. Louis
Groundbreaking data from a new large-scale, nationally-representative survey of low- and moderate-income (LMI) households administered by the Social Pol...
Hedy (Hedwig) Lee 🇻🇮 🇵🇷
New research from @WashUSPI national survey: Housing Hardships Reach Unprecedented Heights during the COVID-19 Pandemic bit.ly/3clV025 @MichalGW
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Making inferences about racial disparities in police violence
A recent PNAS study, Johnson et al. (1), investigates the role of race in fatal police shootings. Unlike previous studies which focused on victim race alone, the paper features original data about the race of officers who use deadly force and offers...
Risk of being killed by police use of force in the United States by age, race–ethnicity, and sex
Police violence is a leading cause of death for young men in the United States. Over the life course, about 1 in every 1,000 black men can expect to be killed by police. Risk of being killed by police peaks between the ages of 20 y and 35 y for men...
Emotional Eating in Quarantined Kids
Boredom and stress are two big contributors to emotional eating, and children have a lot of both right now.
Wealthiest Hospitals Got Billions in Bailout for Struggling Health Providers
Twenty large chains received more than $5 billion in federal grants even while sitting on more than $100 billion in cash.
Women take on a greater share of parenting responsibilities under stay-at-home orders
The coronavirus pandemic puts more pressure on women who work remotely while kids take online classes, a study with YouGov and LinkedIn found.
Anthony Fauci: 'Now Is The Time ... To Care Selflessly About One Another'
The prominent immunologist, coronavirus fighter — and unlikely celebrity — offered a pair of surprise graduation addresses this week, at Johns Hopkins University and the College of the Holy Cross
The Striking Racial Divide in How Covid-19 Has Hit Nursing Homes
Homes with a significant number of black and Latino residents have been twice as likely to be hit by the coronavirus as those where the population is overwhelmingly white.
In many of the hardest-hit states, COVID-19 small business relief is lagging
For policymakers, understanding what is happening in real time is more important than ever as businesses face the COVID-19 across America.
Black Americans and Latinos nearly 3 times more likely to know someone who died of COVID-19: POLL
Black Americans and Latinos are nearly three times as likely to personally know someone who has died from the virus, according to a new ABC News/Ipsos poll.
An Ugly Before-and-After Picture of Workers Hit by the Pandemic Economy
But it’s not too late to help if we pass the Paycheck Guarantee Act.