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Articles by Sarah Burd-Sharps
Gun Rights Advocates Ignore Data on Children's Deaths
For most of our nation’s history, disease was the number one killer of children, only to be surpassed by motor-vehicle crashes in the 1960s. But, over time, elected officials and community leaders called on the car industry to make their products safer, resulting in seat belts, shatterproof windshields, laws requiring children to be kept in booster seats, and more. Lawmakers sprang into action, the industry innovated, and in turn, mortality rates decreased.
Impacts of school shooter drills on the psychological well-being of American K-12 school communities: a social media study - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Abstract The toll from gun violence in American K-12 schools has escalated over the past 20 years. School administrators face pressure to prepare for possible active shootings, and often do so through drills, which can range from general lockdowns to simulations, involving masked “shooters” and simulated gunfire, and many variations in between. However, the broad and lasting impact of these drills on the well-being of school communities is poorly understood.
Extreme-Risk Laws Reduce Gun Violence
Last December, according to prosecutors, a man outside Seattle posted a video in which he brandished an AR-15 and identified himself as "Active Shooter 327." The video followed prior online posts referencing attacks on students and Jewish people, and the man had also expressed interest in replicating the 2015 mass shooting by a white supremacist at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. WIRED OPINION ABOUT Sarah Burd-Sharps is the director of research for Everytown for Gun Safety.
The Muslim Ban and academia
The Muslim Ban—in its current iteration as Proclamation 9645 and in its earlier forms—is certainly an egregious attack on the values of our academic communities, but it is not a novel one. Restrictions on scholarship and scholars tied to immigration policy targeting Muslims as threats to national security, as well as to sanctions on Muslim-majority countries uncooperative with US foreign policy interests, have had an enduring presence in recent US history.
Inequality: Shifting the Spotlight From Wall Street to Your Street
Income inequality, for years the great unmentionable in political discourse, is suddenly on everyone's lips. Thanks to the Great Recession, Occupy Wall Street, and the ensuing focus on the "1 percent," the gulf between the richest and the rest is now not only acknowledged, it is being cited by people across the political spectrum as an impediment to economic recovery. While income inequality is enjoying its moment in the sun, other forms of inequality are getting far less attention.
How to close NYC's lifespan gap? The answer may surprise you
New data reveals a yawning chasm in life expectancy among the city’s residents, with startling implications. While the average life expectancy citywide is 81 years, stunning disparities exist across our neighborhoods. A baby born today in Tribeca can expect to live more than 11 years longer than one born in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Will Obamacare help? One would think that residents with health insurance would live longer, healthier lives than those without it.
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