A growing movement of fast food workers has launched strikes, protests, and public pressure campaigns across the United States and world demanding an end to “starvation wages” and a minimum of $15 an hour, under the slogan “We are worth more!” Now, a just-released working paper from economic researchers is affirming what those employees have…
The ocean is getting warmer at a rate that far outpaces previous estimates, a new study published Sunday has discovered. Since 1970, the top 700 meters (roughly 2,296 feet) of the ocean have been heating up 24 to 55 percent faster than scientists have been estimating, the report, published in Nature Climate Change, found—a massive…
States that have enacted “Stand Your Ground” laws have seen an increase in homicide rates and problems in law enforcement, a task force with the American Bar Association said last Friday when they released a study conducted on the controversial law. Stand Your Ground, which removes the “duty to retreat” from the justification of fighting…
The drought-stricken Colorado River Basin has experienced rapid and significant groundwater depletion since late 2004, posing a greater threat to the water supply of the western United States than previously thought, according to a new study by NASA and University of California, Irvine. The research team used data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment…
Many of you might have woken up yesterday to some pretty surprising news. Local media outlets in the South Bend area reported on a new Harvard study that purports to show that our community is the third unhappiest in the United States. (For those curious, the researchers claim that New York City is the unhappiest…
