From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon’s CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads: migrant laborers who call themselves “workampers.”
Archive for January 2018
Not Noble Savages After All: Limits to Early Altruism
Response Styles in the Partial Credit Model
“It Was Kind of a Dream Come True”: Undocumented College Students’ Testimonios of Cultural Wealth in the College Choice Process
Civil Citation: Diversion or Net Widening?
Fostering Transformation by Hearing Voices: Evaluating a 6-Second, Low-Fidelity Simulation
Prevailing Wages, Side-By-Side Bids, and School Construction Costs
Social Investing: What Matters From the Perspective of Social Enterprises?
Teaming Up or Down? A Multisource Study on the Role of Team Identification and Learning in the Team Diversity–Performance Link
Factors associated with emergency department use among veteran psychiatric patients
Neurocognitive Findings in Onychophagia (Pathological Nail Biting)
Dual Master of Social Work / Master of Public Health Degrees: Perceptions of Graduates and Field Instructors
Discrimination, daily stress, sleep, and Mexican-origin adolescents’ internalizing symptoms
Relationship between Self- Report and Observed Parenting among Parents in Coerced and Non Coerced Population
The experience of weight stigma among gym members with overweight and obesity
Surviving America in the twenty-first century
Microcephaly epidemic related to the Zika virus and living conditions in Recife, Northeast Brazil
Do employers in Myanmar prefer workers who accumulated skills in more advanced countries? Evidence from a field experiment
Mixed-methods evaluation of a novel online STI results service
Impact of replacing cytology with human papillomavirus testing for cervical cancer screening on the prevalence of Trichomonas vaginalis: a modelling study
McMafia: The scale of human trafficking in numbers
Developing professional caregivers’ empathy and emotional competencies through mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR): results of two proofof-concept studies
Harmful sexual behaviour
Comparison of pregnancy outcomes between maternity waiting home users and non-users at hospitals with and without a maternity waiting home: retrospective cohort study
Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop’s Early Years
Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes About Lgbt Rights
Changes in Socioeconomic Differences in Hospital Days With Age: Cumulative Disadvantage, Age-as-Leveler, or Both?
Comprehensive, integrated approaches to suicide prevention: practical guidance
Adolescent resilience to addiction: a social plasticity hypothesis
The use of standardised short-term and working memory tests in aphasia research: a systematic review
A study on the implementation fidelity of the performance-based financing policy in Burkina Faso after 12 months
The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in Africa: a scoping review of its application and validation
Exploring narratives of resilience among seven males living with spinal cord injury: a qualitative study
Dual action of highbush blueberry proanthocyanidins on Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans and the host inflammatory response
Intolerance of uncertainty predicts fear extinction in amygdala-ventromedial prefrontal cortical circuitry
Acute aortoiliac occlusive disease during percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in the setting of ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a case report
Multivariable regression analysis of list experiment data on abortion: results from a large, randomly-selected population based study in Liberia
A National Comparison of Carer Screening, Assessment, Selection and Training and Support in Foster, Kinship and Residential Care: Research Project 4.10 Final Report
Standards and Guidelines for Combined Statistical Data
Help-Seeking Needs and Gaps for Preventing Child Sexual Abuse
Re-emerging and newly recognized sexually transmitted infections: Can prior experiences shed light on future identification and control?
Developing a set of indicators to monitor quality in ambulatory diabetes care using a modified Delphi panel process
Development and psychometric properties of the Hookah Smoking Initiation for Women Questionnaire (HIWQ)
The Guide to Community Preventive Services and Disability Inclusion
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in Fatigued Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Childhood maltreatment and non-suicidal self-injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic