Archive for November 2024

Unpredictable income is especially rough on low-income workers, with nearly half of people making under $25,000 dealing with unpredictable paychecks.

In her latest report… Dame Rachel de Souza examines a sample of 77 child in need plans submitted by local authorities. She finds that in 85% of plans “it was difficult to assess what had been done to protect the child named in the plan or whether progress had been made, such was the poor quality of the actions set out”.

Dr Paul Stephenson OBE organised the boycott which overturned a ban on people from ethnic minorities working on buses in the city and was instrumental in paving the way for the first Race Relations Act in 1965…. Dr Stephenson’s journey began as the first black social worker employed by the city of Bristol.

SAD tends to begin in young adulthood and is more common in women than men. People living further north of Earth’s equator are at higher risk for experiencing SAD. So are those with a family history of or who themselves have a pre-existing mental illness, like depression or bipolar disorder.

“There’s a need for governing boards, and there’s a need for administrations to run things,” said Dr. Noëlle McAfee, a philosophy professor who is the Emory Senate’s president-elect. “But they don’t have the expertise, they’re not qualified and it’s not their job to be handling matters having to do with educational mission.”

“Working-class identity is there for the taking, because the Left has fallen almost totally silent about the experience of social class.”

Treating anxiety, depression and other disorders may depend on the amygdala, a part of the brain that controls strong emotional reactions, especially fear. But a deep understanding of this structure has been lacking. Now scientists at the University of California, Davis have identified new clusters of cells with differing patterns of gene expression in the amygdala of humans and non-human primates. The work could lead to more targeted treatments for disorders such as anxiety that affect tens of millions of people.