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...book newly out from the Russell Sage Foundation, Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, two social scientists show that the marriage premium has subsided since 1969. Maria Cancian, a professor of public affairs and social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Deborah Reed, director of research at Mathematica Policy Research, set out to study how the changing makeup of American families has affected the number of people below the poverty line. Considering how the rate of marriage has fallen and the rate of divorce has risen, the researchers expected the number of people living below the poverty line to grow...
...commendable. Abstinence-only sex education programs have been repeatedly shown to be ineffective, misleading, and even bigoted, while comprehensive programs have seen widespread success. Study after study has shown abstinence-only programs have almost no impact on teens’ sexual behavior. One, commissioned by Congress and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research over the course of nine years, found that students receiving abstinence-only education had sex no later than those who did not. The number of sexual partners and use of contraception did not differ between the groups either. Another study, from Johns Hopkins, found that students who take...
Wolfram is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, and has already made his name in the techie world creating Mathematica, a computational program that is widely used in engineering, science, and math fields...
...problem sets, these concentrators dress comfortably and in layers to mitigate Cabot Science Library’s fluctuating climates. Cargo pants are a staple for the mathematically-inclined, as the pockets provide easy carrying space for calculators, protractors, and Sir Issac Newton’s “Principia Mathematica.” In addition to their array of free OCS T-shirts, these number-crunchers dress up any outfit with tees bearing mathematical jokes (“Will you lie tangent to my curves?”) that no one outside the Science Center finds even remotely humorous. Government...
...even one helping of vegetables a day. Those who do tend to have the least nutritious kind. By 9 months, potatoes, either mashed or fried, are the most commonly consumed vegetable; by 12 months, 13% of babies eat French fries every day, according to FITS, which was conducted by Mathematica Policy Research and sponsored by Gerber Products...