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Lane Anderson

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Business
What Rachel Parcell wore to the pandemic
The social media sensation had an early vision for online shopping. Here’s how she shifted from blogger to businesswoman.
By Lane Anderson
America is still the richest country in the world, but it's not one of the happiest. How much is too little? How much is too much?
InDepth
If money can’t buy happiness, what actually can?
America is still the richest country in the world, but it’s not one of the happiest. How much is too little? How much is too much?
By Lane Anderson
Posting products to Instagram and other social media platforms and then sharing photos online is changing the face of consumerism in America.
U.S. & World
The Instagram effect: How the psychology of envy drives consumerism
Social media envy is driving consumerism in ways never seen before. Fame and fortune have replaced faith and family as the core of the American Dream, according to research by marketing firm JWT.
By Lane Anderson and Amanda Taylor
Teens are brutalized by violent pimps and forced into sex slavery, right? Not so fast -- new research paints a different picture, and tests our commonly held myths about sex trafficking.
U.S. & World
Everything we think we know about sex trafficking could be wrong
Teens are brutalized by violent pimps and forced into sex slavery, right? Not so fast -- new research paints a different picture, and tests our commonly held myths about sex trafficking.
By Lane Anderson
John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Molnar, et al. Suicidal behavior and sexual/physical abuse among street youth. Child Abuse & Neglect.
U.S. & World
Saving ‘Throwaway Kids.’ In Los Angeles, sex trafficking doesn’t look like it does in the movies
Sex trafficking in the US is nothing like the movies. Look no further than the streets of Los Angeles to find America’s sexually exploited kids. Over 70 percent of children under 18 rescued here are born and raised in the U.S.
By Lane Anderson
Underage girls detained for running away, truancy and prostitution are often trying to escape abuse and exploitation, study says. Instead of getting help, they are put behind bars.
U.S. & World
How abused teen girls are treated like criminals — and how to help
Underage girls detained for running away, truancy and prostitution are often trying to escape abuse and exploitation, study says. Instead of getting help, they are put behind bars.
By Lane Anderson
Many black people still live in segregated ghettos in the country's metropolitan areas. Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, says those ghettos didn't happen by accident.
U.S. & World
How government policy created ghettos, according to one historian
Many black people still live in segregated ghettos in the country’s metropolitan areas. Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, says those ghettos didn’t happen by accident.
By Lane Anderson
A "one-way honor system" beholdens workers to their employers, while employers have little responsibility to employees. Researchers believe it's reshaping our family lives.
World & Nation
Job insecurity is the new normal. Here’s how it’s affecting your family life
A “one-way honor system” beholdens workers to their employers, while employers have little responsibility to employees. Researchers believe it’s reshaping our family lives.
By Lane Anderson
Around the world, children under the age of 12 are happy, but that can change dramatically as they grow up.
Parenting
Most children in the world are happy, even when they have less
Around the world, children under the age of 12 are happy, but that can change dramatically as they grow up.
By Lane Anderson
Is lack of access to fair representation eroding the U.S. justice system? A new report says that for low-income Americans, it may be.
U.S. & World
Why fair legal representation remains elusive for the poor
Is lack of access to fair representation eroding the U.S. justice system? A new report says that for low-income Americans, it may be.
By Lane Anderson
Maybe lack of family leave time isn't the problem for parents — maybe working 24/7 is the problem for parents.
Family
How working around the clock hurts families
Maybe lack of family leave time isn’t the problem for parents — maybe working 24/7 is the problem for parents.
By Lane Anderson
Does money make rich people happier? Not really. But not having enough money can make a person sad.
U.S. & World
Money doesn’t make the rich happier, but poverty makes the poor sadder
Does money make rich people happier? Not really. But not having enough money can make a person sad.
By Lane Anderson
The payday lending industry earns $8.7 billion a year in exorbitant interest rates and fees. But without them, where will low-income borrowers go?
World & Nation
Why people who use payday loans aren’t ‘financially stupid’, just desperate
The payday lending industry earns $8.7 billion a year in exorbitant interest rates and fees. But without them, where will low-income borrowers go?
By Lane Anderson
In this photo, a man leaves the headquarters of Uber in San Francisco. In rulings filed Wednesday, March 11, 2015, two San Francisco federal judges said juries will have to decide whether former drivers for Uber and Lyft were independent contractors, or e
U.S. & World
The blurry line between contract work and employment
Employers look to tactics to take workers off formal payrolls and lower costs.
By Lane Anderson
While wealthy communities have rebounded, some working-class neighborhoods remain underwater.
U.S. & World
Why working-class citizens are struggling to recover from the housing crisis
While wealthy communities have rebounded, some working-class neighborhoods remain underwater.
By Lane Anderson
Homeless counts have decreased since 2007 — or have they? New reports show counting methods may be leaving out families and youth.
U.S. & World
Why we may have the homeless count all wrong
Homeless counts have decreased since 2007 — or have they? New reports show counting methods may be leaving out families and youth.
By Lane Anderson
Between 70 million and 100 million Americans — almost one in three — have some kind of criminal record. Criminal background checks can make it hard for them to find a place to live and get a job.
U.S. & World
Even the smallest criminal record can be a life sentence of poverty
Between 70 million and 100 million Americans — almost one in three — have some kind of criminal record. Criminal background checks can make it hard for them to find a place to live and get a job.
By Lane Anderson
This month, authorities cracked down on four cancer charities that bilked millions. Here's how to make sure your giving gets into the right hands.
U.S. & World
How charity fraud happens — and how to make sure it doesn’t happen to you
This month, authorities cracked down on four cancer charities that bilked millions. Here’s how to make sure your giving gets into the right hands.
By Lane Anderson
New data, published after a nine-year, six-country study, offers resounding evidence for poverty strategies that work "” and some that don't.
U.S. & World
Poverty solutions that actually work
New data, published after a nine-year, six-country study, offers resounding evidence for poverty strategies that work — and some that don’t.
By Lane Anderson
Pope Francis smiles as he arrives at the Santa Maria Ausiliatrice Basilica, in Turin, Italy, Sunday, June 21, 2015. Pope Francis earlier prayed in front of the Holy Shroud, the 14 foot-long linen revered by some as the burial cloth of Jesus, on display a
Faith
A message about the family and faith is getting lost in the pope’s climate message
Catholic leaders say that at the center of Pope Francis’ encyclical is a message about caring for “human ecosystems,” especially our communities and families.
By Lane Anderson
Research has found that social integration is more important for well-being than income, and also decreases poverty.
U.S. & World
This is what affects your overall well-being more than income
Research has found that social integration is more important for well-being than income, and also decreases poverty.
By Lane Anderson
Residents need to make $33 an hour, or over $68,000 a year, to afford the average apartment in Los Angeles County.
U.S. & World
The housing problem that is making city living even harder
Residents need to make $33 an hour, or over $68,000 a year, to afford the average apartment in Los Angeles County.
By Lane Anderson
Baby boomers are facing fewer pensions than previous generations. In 1975, most workers with pensions had a guaranteed lifetime benefit, but today, most retirement plans, like 401(k)s, are based on a worker's contributions.
World & Nation
This is how much half of Americans nearing retirement have saved for it
Baby boomers are facing fewer pensions than previous generations. In 1975, most workers with pensions had a guaranteed lifetime benefit, but today, most retirement plans, like 401(k)s, are based on a worker’s contributions.
By Lane Anderson
Poor kids have a hard time getting into college. They have an even harder time graduating.
NATIONAL/Home
The graduation gap: Why poor kids aren’t getting through college
Poor kids have a hard time getting into college. They have an even harder time graduating.
By Lane Anderson
In this Sept. 4, 2014 file photo, protestors demonstrate to push fast-food chains to pay their employees at least $15 an hour, in Philadelphia. Employers in the United States are hiring at a brisk pace. Unemployment has sunk to a nearly healthy rate. Jobs
Red Box Roundup
Unemployment has sunk, but paychecks still aren’t growing
The economy is in recovery. So why don’t workers see that in their paychecks?
By Lane Anderson
A man with two children sits in the rubble of the earthquake damaged Cathedral during a mass in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday Jan. 12, 2011, one year after Haiti's magnitude-7.0 earthquake devastated the capital and is estimated to have killed more tha
U.S. & World
The Red Cross coming under fire for work in Haiti
It seems that after emergency food, blankets and shelter had been handed out, the organization, which outfundraised many others, had lots of money but little know-how to finish the job.
By Lane Anderson
When people don't have enough time, money or even friendship, they start doing dumb things within minutes, researchers say.
World & Nation
The scarcity mindset: What happens when you have too little
When people don’t have enough time, money or even friendship, they start doing dumb things within minutes, researchers say.
By Lane Anderson
According to the World Bank, Sub-Saharan Africa has 98 million registered mobile money accounts as of last year— more than twice the number of Facebook accounts in the region.
Red Box Roundup
Millions now have bank accounts thanks to the Internet, says World Bank
According to the World Bank, Sub-Saharan Africa has 98 million registered mobile money accounts as of last year— more than twice the number of Facebook accounts in the region.
By Lane Anderson
For the first time, the number of hungry people in the world has dropped below 800 million.
U.S. & World
Number of hungry people in the world drops below 800 million
For the first time, the number of hungry people in the world has dropped below 800 million. In South America, less than 5 percent of the population now faces hunger — a whopping 50 percent reduction since 1990.
By Lane Anderson
European countries have much more generous maternity leave policies, but have companies responded by paying women less and skipping them for management?
Red Box Roundup
The unintended consequences of maternity leave
European countries have much more generous maternity leave policies, but have companies responded by paying women less and skipping them for management?
By Lane Anderson
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