Databyte Archives

11.02.2017 a map of europe with different colored areas

There’s No Escaping Climate Change

A recent study in the Lancet finds two out of three Europeans could be affected by weather-related disasters by 2071.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

10.31.2017 Graph showing reasons for nonelderly adults being uninsured in 2016

“I’m uninsured because…”

Data from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that 98% of respondents do want health insurance, but lacked access.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

10.27.2017 Graph showing rising sea levels since 1993

The Imminent Danger of Rising Sea Levels to Coastal Communities

NASA data shows a trend in rising sea levels that represents an imminent danger to coastal communities globally.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

10.26.2017 Graph comparing food insecurity by type of college

Food Insecurity at Two-Year Colleges

A recent Urban Institute study finds that students at two-year colleges are at risk of food insecurity. Could a review of the work requirements for SNAP eligibility help?

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

10.25.2017 Graphic showing annual average per capital growth in GDP conditional on test scores, years of schooling completed

Schooling vs. Learning

A World Bank report on how schooling is not the same as learning: students are leaving school without a real working knowledge of what their classes were supposed to teach.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

10.24.2017 Pie chart showing barriers to access to mental health

Barriers to Mental Health Treatment

Striking data from the Kaiser Health Tracking Poll on the reasons that millions of Americans skip needed mental health care.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

10.20.2017 a diagram of a survey

Teaching Love, Preventing Sexual Harassment

Adults are spending too much time worrying about the “hook-up culture” and too little time on guidance on healthy relationships from both parents and health or sex education classes.

Fellow Madeline Bishop

10.19.2017 Graph showing rising rate of homeless students

Homeless Students

The United States has experienced an alarming rise in the number of homeless K-12 students. "Invisibility" is a barrier to connecting homeless students to proper resources.

Fellow Qing Wai Wong

10.17.2017 a graph of different colored bars

Ethnic Disparities in Adolescent Mental Health Treatment

Adolescent racial or ethnic minorities in Massachusetts experience disproportionately high levels of sadness and suicide attempts. There is also a large disparity between white youth and minority youth receiving depression treatment.

Fellow Gilbert Benavidez

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