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...economic benefit of marriage isn't what it used to be. In a chapter of a 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...
...does this mean you should turn off the shower and go back to old-fashioned baths? Not exactly. "If you are an otherwise healthy person, there is no cause for alarm," says Dr. Lynn Connolly, a practicing clinician and assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who has treated patients with M. avium infection. Connolly is quick to add that if you have AIDS, chronic lung disease, cystic fibrosis or an immune system disorder, then there is some cause for concern. In such patients, the bacteria can cause lung diseases, and in some extreme cases infections in other...
Workplace violence is, of course, a broad term that covers a range of behavior, including, in its most extreme form, homicide. According to Larry Barton, a professor of management and president of the American College in Bryn Mawr, Penn., nonfatal workplace assaults and threats of assaults, have indeed seen a recent uptick - due in part to stress and depression caused by the weak economy. These are the same reasons that researchers think led to the troubling rise in workplace suicides in 2008, which jumped 28% from the year before...
...These are what they call low-frequency, high-intensity incidents," says Daniel B. Kennedy, a forensic consultant and criminal justice professor at the University of Detroit Mercy, referring to Le's murder. "It does not bespeak any sudden wave of violence and homicide at the workplace. It just had a number of unique twists...
...total number of killings in American workplaces remain relatively low, they still average more than one a day, and the data show that they disproportionately affect women. In recent years homicide has been the leading cause of death of women on the job, says Corinne Peek-Asa, a professor of occupational and environmental health at the University of Iowa. Homicide accounted for 26% of female deaths on the workplace last year, federal figures show, compared with just 9% for men. Experts say better safety measures must be implemented to reduce workplace risk. "It's an area where we should...