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08
Aug

The Trust Gap and Hard Times

by Judith A. Levine “Right now today you really can’t trust no one,” Mia Fields declared as we sat in her kitchen talking about how she is raising her four girls. Mia …

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08
Aug

Hard Times Bring Us Back to the Garden

by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo When the financial crisis hit, stores across the nation went out of business, but by 2009 one U.S. retailer was crowing about an upswing in sales: Burpee Seeds. The …

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06
Aug

The Paradox of Sexual Freedom

by Leslie C. Bell, Ph.D., LCSW Excited yet embarrassed, Claudia, a twenty-eight-year-old I interviewed for my book, Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom, told me about a …

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05
Aug

Caste Away

by Susan Starr Sered  I first met Elizabeth at a drop-in center for poor and homeless women shortly after she was released from prison. Elizabeth’s father was a firefighter. Her mother worked …

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04
Aug

Cheap on Crime

by Hadar Aviram In 2009, for the first time in almost forty years, the total number of inmates in the United states declined—a trend that persists since then. Six states have recently …

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04
Aug

Good Intentions and Ironic Consequences

by Joel Best and Eric Best Last month brought the collapse of Corinthian Colleges, a large–but by no means the largest—for-profit college. The Department of Education struggled to engineer a soft landing …

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