In the 1930s, half of all unmarried women who got pregnant out of wedlock got married (a so-called “shotgun marriage.”) By the second half of…
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Ep. 41 What WikiLeaks Reveals About Human Trafficking
Across the globe more than 20 million people are victimized by human trafficking, the modern form of slavery. Judith Kelley has been digging in to…
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Think of the words “Illegal alien” or “welfare queen.” What color faces do you see in your mind? Now think about about phrases like “real…
Leave a CommentResearch shows Hispanic children in the U.S. worry a lot more than their non-Hispanic peers. Some told researchers they feared their parents would be taken…
Leave a CommentDo children from low-income background benefit from living in economically mixed communities? Professor Candice Odgers says that growing up in the shadow of wealth may…
Leave a CommentSusan Coppedge is the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Her office estimates there are 21 million victims of human trafficking worldwide.…
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