This week Corrine tells you all about the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution, what "freedom of speech" really is, and when you give it up (hint: all of the time)! Tune in to learn more about just how misunderstood the 1st is in the US!
References:
American Bar Association. (2015) Section of Litigation: Children’s Rights Litigation-Case Notes: Landmark Juvenile Law Cases: First Amendment. Retrieved from https://apps.americanbar.org/litigation/committees/childrights/content/notes/landmark_01.html
Landers, A. (18 Dec. 1997). Not Everyone is Cut Out for Marriage. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved from http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1997-12-18/features/9712180096_1_dear-ann-landers-marriage-single-women
Legal Information Institute-Cornell University. (n.d.) U.S. Constitution: First Amendment. Retrieved from https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/first_amendment
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
The Financial Cost of Motherhood
Sorry for the late post! References to follow!
This week Janet tells us about motherhood. Specifically, the cost of child bearing to women! Want to know more? Listen now!
Center for Disease Control. “Key Statistics From NSFG.” National Survey of Family Growth. 2015. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics.htm. Accessed 3 Mar. 2017.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Health Care Expenditures of Research Findings #27: Uncomplicated Pregnancies. Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey MEPS-HC. Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. August 2007. http: www.meps.ahrq.gov. Accessed 2 March 2017.
Landsburg, Steven. "The Price of Motherhood." Slate. 9 December 2005. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/2005/12/the_price_of_motherhood.html. Accessed 2 March 2017.
"What Babies Really Cost." What To Expect. http://www.whattoexpect.com/preconception/preparing-for-baby/work-and-finance/what-babies-really-cost.aspx. Accessed 3 March 2017.
This week Janet tells us about motherhood. Specifically, the cost of child bearing to women! Want to know more? Listen now!
Center for Disease Control. “Key Statistics From NSFG.” National Survey of Family Growth. 2015. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics.htm. Accessed 3 Mar. 2017.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Health Care Expenditures of Research Findings #27: Uncomplicated Pregnancies. Household Component of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey MEPS-HC. Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. August 2007. http: www.meps.ahrq.gov. Accessed 2 March 2017.
Landsburg, Steven. "The Price of Motherhood." Slate. 9 December 2005. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/2005/12/the_price_of_motherhood.html. Accessed 2 March 2017.
"What Babies Really Cost." What To Expect. http://www.whattoexpect.com/preconception/preparing-for-baby/work-and-finance/what-babies-really-cost.aspx. Accessed 3 March 2017.
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
The Economic Impact of Mass Deportation
This week Corrine takes on mass deportation in the US, and pulls out the big guns. What is the wall going to cost you? It might be more than you think. Listen to find out!
References:
Borjas, G. J. (2016). The Labor Supply of Undocumented Immigrants. The National Bureau of Economic Research. Retreieved from http://www.nber.org/papers/w22102
Carson, E. A. & Anderson, E. (2016). Prisoners in 2015. U.S. Department of Justice-Beauru of Justice Programs. Retrieved from https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/p15.pdf
Edwards, R. & Ortega, F. (21 Sept. 2016). The Economic Impact of Unauthorized immigrant Workers. AmericanProgress.org. Retrieved from https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/reports/2016/09/21/144363/the-economic-impacts-of-removing-unauthorized-immigrant-workers/
Ewing, W., Martinez, D. E., & Rumbaut, R. G.(15 July 2015) The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States. American Immigration Council: Special Report. Retrieved from https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/criminalization-immigration-united-states
Finnegan, W. (29 April 2013). The Deportation Machine. NewYorker.com. Retrieved from http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/29/the-deportation-machine
Garfield, L. (3 Feb. 2017). Our agricultural system would collapse if Trump starts mass deportations, says farm worker advocate. Business Insider: Finance. Retrieved from http://www.businessinsider.com/trumps-deportation-agriculture-2017-2
Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. (24 Feb. 2016). Undocumented Immigrants’ State and Local Tax Contributions. Retreieved from http://itep.org/itep_reports/2016/02/undocumented-immigrants-state-local-tax-contributions-1.php#.V-Q4CWWj-lL
Massey, D. (18 Aug. 2015). Donald Trump’s Border Wall is a Moronic Idea. ForeignPolicy.com. Retrieved from http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/18/donald-trump-immigration-border/
Mexican Migration Project. Princeton University. http://mmp.opr.princeton.edu/home-en.aspx
Pfaff, J. (28 Jan 2017). A Better Approach to Violent Crime. Wall Street Journal. Retreieved from https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-better-approach-to-violent-crime-1485536313
Wessler, S.F. (2011). Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System. Applied Research Center.
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Domestic Terrorism & Hate Crimes
This week Janet tells us all about domestic terrorism and hate crimes in the US, and boy, does she have some surprising numbers for you. Want to know who's causing trouble, who's being a big meany, and who's the face of evil in the US? Listen to find out!
*We apologize for the quality of the audio this week. Between glitches and hang ups,some of the cuts are a bit jumpy and robot-y. We're hoping to get things sorted by episode 5.
References:
Awan, Imran. “Islamaphobia on Social Media: A Qualitative Analysis of the Facebook’s Walls of Hate.” International Journal of Cyber Criminology. January - June 2016, Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 1-20. Open Access/Criminal Justice Database. Accessed 20 February 2017. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.58517.
Donelly, Ellen. “The Politics of Racial Disparity Reform: Racial Inequality and Criminal Justice Policymaking in the States.” American Journal of Criminal Justice. 2017, Issue 42, pp. 1-27. OmniFile. Accessed 20 February 2017. DOI 10.1007/s12103-016-9344-8.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services Division. “2015 Hate Crime Statistics.” FBI Uniform Report 2015. Accessed 20 February 2017. https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/
Kurz, Joshua J. and Damon T. Berry. “Normalizing Racism: Vigilantism, Border Security, and Neo-Racist Assemblages.” Security Journal. 2015. Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 150-164. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/sj.2015.6
Loeser, Charles E. “From Paper Terrorists to Cop Killers: The Sovereign Citizen Threat.” North Carolina Law Review. 2015, Vol. 93, Issue 4, pp. 1106-1139. http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/nclr/vol93/iss4/
Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D. “Defining Terrorism, Racial Profiling, and the demonisation of Arabs and Muslims in the USA.” Community Safety Journal. Apr. 2005, Vol. 4, Issue 2, pp. 4-11. Criminal Justice Database. Accessed 20 February 2017.
Wackrow, Richard. “A Skeptic’s Guide to the War on Terror.” Skeptic Magazine. 2015, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 32-43. Criminal Justice Database. Accessed 20 February 2017.
*We apologize for the quality of the audio this week. Between glitches and hang ups,some of the cuts are a bit jumpy and robot-y. We're hoping to get things sorted by episode 5.
References:
Awan, Imran. “Islamaphobia on Social Media: A Qualitative Analysis of the Facebook’s Walls of Hate.” International Journal of Cyber Criminology. January - June 2016, Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 1-20. Open Access/Criminal Justice Database. Accessed 20 February 2017. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.58517.
Donelly, Ellen. “The Politics of Racial Disparity Reform: Racial Inequality and Criminal Justice Policymaking in the States.” American Journal of Criminal Justice. 2017, Issue 42, pp. 1-27. OmniFile. Accessed 20 February 2017. DOI 10.1007/s12103-016-9344-8.
Federal Bureau of Investigation Criminal Justice Information Services Division. “2015 Hate Crime Statistics.” FBI Uniform Report 2015. Accessed 20 February 2017. https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/
Kurz, Joshua J. and Damon T. Berry. “Normalizing Racism: Vigilantism, Border Security, and Neo-Racist Assemblages.” Security Journal. 2015. Vol. 28, Issue 2, pp. 150-164. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/sj.2015.6
Loeser, Charles E. “From Paper Terrorists to Cop Killers: The Sovereign Citizen Threat.” North Carolina Law Review. 2015, Vol. 93, Issue 4, pp. 1106-1139. http://scholarship.law.unc.edu/nclr/vol93/iss4/
Onwudiwe, Ihekwoaba D. “Defining Terrorism, Racial Profiling, and the demonisation of Arabs and Muslims in the USA.” Community Safety Journal. Apr. 2005, Vol. 4, Issue 2, pp. 4-11. Criminal Justice Database. Accessed 20 February 2017.
Wackrow, Richard. “A Skeptic’s Guide to the War on Terror.” Skeptic Magazine. 2015, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 32-43. Criminal Justice Database. Accessed 20 February 2017.
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