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1. Study Uses 311 Complaints to Track Where and When Neighborhood Conflict Emerges

   Each year, 311 — New York City's main hub for government information and non-emergency services — receives millions of requests and complaints, including New Yorkers' gripes about their neighbors.

2. With Racial Segregation Declining Between Neighborhoods, Segregation Now Taking New Form

   Recent research has shown that racial segregation in the U.S. is declining between neighborhoods, but a new study indicates that segregation is manifesting itself in other ways — not disappearing.

3. Study Uses Internet and Social Media to Show How Fracking Documentary Influenced Public Perception and Political Change

   Social scientists have long argued documentary films are powerful tools for social change.

   But a University of Iowa (UI) sociologist and his co-researchers are the first to use the Internet and social media to systematically show how a documentary film reshaped public perception and ultimately led to municipal bans on hydraulic fracking.

4. Timing of First Childbirth Influences Women’s Health at Age 40

   A new study finds some surprising ways in which women's health at midlife is connected to when they had their first child and to their marital history. Researchers found that women who had their first child in their early 20s didn't report better health at midlife than those who had their first baby as a teen. 

5. Getting the Most Out of the U.S. Healthcare System

   Kids with life-threatening illnesses need cutting-edge technology and medical expertise, but families face uneven access and paths to such care.

6. Building Child-Centered Social Movements

   Subsidized campus childcare was hard-won and remains very effective, while budget cuts and the privatization of childcare threaten centers across the country.

7. Cultivating S-P-E-L-L-E-R-S

   Indian-American spellers are known for dominance on the national stage and even host regional, culturally specific bees. How did the niche emerge?

8. Dealing with the Diagnosis

   How naming a medical malady can be both horrifying for new parents and a key to unlocking resources and care.

9. Marrying across Class Lines

   Even when married couples think childhood class differences are in the past, those factors shape how each spouse tackles tasks and allocates resources.

10. Childhood Disadvantage and Health Problems in Middle and Later Life: Early Imprints on Physical Health?

    Drawing from cumulative inequality theory, we examine the relationship between childhood disadvantage and health problems in adulthood. Using two waves of data from Midlife Development in the United States, we investigate whether childhood disadvantage is associated with adult disadvantage, including fewer social resources, and the effect of lifelong disadvantage on health problems measured at the baseline survey and a 10-year follow-up.