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"People talk about how moms can lift a car off their children, but even though you can do it, it doesn't mean you didn't do damage to your body when lifting the car. 2020 was like lifting a car off your kids; 2021 is going to have to be ‘How are those women able to heal?'" Betsey Stevenson on the support needed for working moms.
The New York Times
"The twisting of data to draw a false equivalency between the assault on the Capitol and BLM protesters offers a stark reminder of how numbers make a consequential contribution to the ways the country understands its history, memory, power, privilege and position." Earl Lewis on how media reporting of race statistics affects the public's views.
The Conversation
"To me, it's the most transformational thing that's under discussion, and nobody's talking about it." Luke Shaefer on President Biden's child poverty plan.
The New York Times
"Think of it like choosing items in everyday routines, like ordering a slice of pizza... All it takes is a little planning before entering the voting booth." John Chamberlin explains ranked-choice voting.
NY City Lens
"These are really values debates masquerading as scientific debates. And putting them into the language of science is bad for science, but it is also bad for politics and democracy." Shobita Parthasarathy discusses how politicians co-opt science for political goals.
Chemical and Engineering News
"It really jumped out that for people of color in general, and Blacks specifically, how important it is to get a recommendation from a health care provider or government health officials." Jeffrey Morenoff on survey data showing community outreach key to overcoming vaccine hesitancy.
Model D Media
"In my view, making the (number of executive actions) the lede is actually quite misleading. It gives the public the impression that the president has accomplished much more than they have. They're just pieces of paper until they are implemented. Whether they will be is an open question — and one we won't have an answer to in the first 100 days." Kenneth Lowande on the executive actions issued by the Biden Administration.
CNN
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