How We’re Doing: the Real Numbers on Immigrants and Crime
June 23, 2010 by Megan Hagist · 2 Comments
You’ve probably heard the right-wing canard that illegal immigrants cause higher crime rates. And if you’re like the majority of the public, you believe it, as the pie chart (based on ...Read More
How We’re Doing: Women Experts on the Radio
April 5, 2010 by Catherine A. Traywick · 6 Comments
It seems NPR isn’t quite as balanced as we think–or so NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard discovered after conducting a gender analysis of the network’s programming. With the help of ...Read More
How We’re Doing: Maternal Mortality Increasing in the US
March 23, 2010 by Catherine A. Traywick · 6 Comments
In the ongoing furor over abortion and health care, there’s an issue at the intersection of the two that has gone little-examined: maternal health. A new Amnesty International report released ...Read More
How We’re Doing: Women and Wealth
March 15, 2010 by Catherine A. Traywick · 2 Comments
A recent study by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development has been making the rounds–in large part because the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette literally made headlines out of it last ...Read More
How We’re Doing: International Women’s Day Edition
March 8, 2010 by Catherine A. Traywick · 9 Comments
Many are celebrating today, ourselves included. But being the level-headed, pragmatic feminists that we are, we can’t help but temper the festive mood with a healthy dose of analysis. Eager ...Read More
