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Anti-poverty policies can reduce reports of child neglect

Kim Eckart — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:03:47 +0000

A �� study analyzes how a state's refundable Earned Income Tax Credit can lead to fewer reports of child neglect, by reducing the financial stress on families.

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Age restrictions for handguns make little difference in homicides as US deals with ‘de facto availability’ of firearms

Jake Ellison — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 19:06:46 +0000

In the United States, individual state laws barring 18- to 20-year-olds from buying or possessing a handgun make little difference in the rate of homicides involving a gun by people in that age group, a new �� study has found. “The central issue is that there’s a very high degree of informal access to firearms, such as through family members or illicit channels,” said Caitlin Moe, the study’s lead author and a doctoral student in epidemiology in the...

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To reduce gun violence, lift roadblocks to firearm data

Jake Ellison — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 17:54:47 +0000

While gun violence in America kills more than 35,000 people a year and as calls for policies to stem the crisis grow, �� researchers point out in a new analysis that barriers to data stand in the way of advancing solutions. “Firearm data availability, accessibility and infrastructure need to be substantially improved to reduce the burden of the public health crisis of firearm violence,” said Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, lead co-author and associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology...

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