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Source: JournalistsResource.orgPolicing changes linked to fewer gunshot patients at major trauma center
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A wholesale change in policing tactics earlier this decade in Camden, New Jersey — a city that historically has struggled with violent crime — is associated with the city’s major trauma center treating lower rates of gunshot patients in recent years, finds new research in Preventive Medicine Reports.
Disparate impact: potential new hurdles to fighting housing discrimination
Source: JournalistsResource.orgUnclaimed bodies: Who they are and how they died. A look at Indiana. - Journalist's Resource
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A 2016 study explores the issue of the unclaimed dead – who they are, how they died and how long they waited in a coroner’s office before burial or cremation.
Natural resource windfalls and corruption in U.S. states
Source: JournalistsResource.orgU.S. states that struggle with government corruption tend to become more corrupt after gaining revenue from natural resources, according to a new paper in Political Research Quarterly.
Conversely, states that are less corrupt and gain natural resource windfalls tend to resist becoming more corrupt.
Strong causal language on product warning labels more effective
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Health warning labels that use strong causal language deter consumers more than labels with weaker language, a new study in the American Journal of Public Health finds.
Opioid crisis in U.S. military driven by combat exposure in the war on terror
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United States military service members who experience combat are more likely to misuse prescription painkillers than those who don’t engage in combat, according to a new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
U.S.-China trade war: global consequences edition
Source: JournalistsResource.orgResearch: Tax cuts for bottom 90% of earners spurs job growth
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Employment increases after taxes are cut for most income earners — but not when tax cuts target the top 10% of earners — according to a recent paper in the Journal of Political Economy looking at data from the 1980s through the 2000s.