Registration and Voting Among Americans Ages 18-29

Young Americans ages 18-29 appear to be registering and voting at significantly higher rates than in recent elections. If further research bears this it out, it will be a welcome development given that young Americans are underrepresented in the electorate compared to their voting eligible population. This research memorandum provides registration and voting information on voting-eligible Americans ages 18-24 and 25-29 by age and college experience.The data raises one cautionary note: to the extent programs to engage young Americans in the democratic process focus primarily on college campuses, they will not only miss half of voting-eligible Americans ages 18-24 but also overlook a majority of Blacks and Latinos in this age group

The Effect of Joint-Child-Custody Legislation on the Child-Support Receipt of Single Mothers

Due to the preponderance of single mothers on public assistance, delinquent child support has been a contentious political issue in the U.S. for over 30 years. We examine whether joint-child-custody reform affects the child- support receipt of single mothers. We use variation in the timing of joint-custody reforms across states to identify the effect of joint custody on the child-support receipt of single mothers. Joint-custody enactment raises the probability of receiving child support for all single mothers by six percent. However, the effect on all single mothers is driven by the effect on divorced mothers since separated and never-married mothers are unaffected by joint-custody reform. We conclude joint-custody reform confers the most benefit on divorced mothers and their children, particularly those who do not receive public assistance.child support, joint custody, child-custody laws, child-support enforcement

Completed representation ring spectra of nilpotent groups

In this paper, we examine the `derived completion' of the representation ring of a pro-p group G_p^ with respect to an augmentation ideal. This completion is no longer a ring: it is a spectrum with the structure of a module spectrum over the Eilenberg-MacLane spectrum HZ, and can have higher homotopy information. In order to explain the origin of some of these higher homotopy classes, we define a deformation representation ring functor R[-] from groups to ring spectra, and show that the map R[G_p^] --> R[G] becomes an equivalence after completion when G is finitely generated nilpotent. As an application, we compute the derived completion of the representation ring of the simplest nontrivial case, the p-adic Heisenberg group.Comment: This is the version published by Algebraic & Geometric Topology on 26 February 200

The effects of hypnosis and symptom interpretation on jurors\u27 perceptions of recovered memories of child sexual abuse

The current study examined mock jurors\u27 perceptions of recovered memories of child sexual abuse. Participants were presented with one of four written vignettes of an adult female who recovers memories of child sexual abuse during therapy. Two variables in the vignettes were manipulated: the method of memory recovery (hypnosis informed vs. control uninformed) and presentation of psychological symptoms commonly related to history of sexual maltreatment (symptoms informed vs. symptoms uninformed). Participant mock jurors were asked to respond to questions regarding credibility, defendant guilt, and award of monetary damages. The continuous dependent variable analyses found significant results with regard to plaintiff credibility and defendant guilt with the hypnosis uninformed condition. Additionally, the hypnosis uninformed condition of the dichotomous dependent variable analyses significantly predicted the likelihood of participants deciding the defendant guilty, as well as the plaintiff as credible. Based on these findings, mock jurors\u27 perceived hypnosis to be detrimental to memory recovery

THE GEOGRAPHY OF COMMUNITY INTENTION: We Are What Our Neighbors Eat!

Much of our subtle communication involves speaking through music and visual arts. In the present presidential address we talk and sing on a theme that embraces the geography of community intention--we are what our neighbors eat. We discuss that theme at a group level, in the first person plural. We focus on the building of community for mystically inclined scientists and scientifically inclined mystics. In our discussion of kommunityi we turn to a traditional contemporary view of how geodemography looks at communities; our plea is that we not allow this technology to be used only for selling widgets. There is enough transcendent information and surrogate measures in existing databases to help us understand and build effective holistic health communities, and we would welcome suggestions. We are using this technology to sell pluralism. So, on a daily basis what seems to matter is not what we do every day, but what we do 333 days a year, plus or minus 33. We need new ways to form and reform the neighborhoods and communities that can set the group intention to facilitate the moving of our evolution to the next level, while thoroughly enjoying and appreciating the level we are leaving. Gaia will survive. Those of us who can change rapidly enough to khart the waters never sailed beforei will also survive. Bon voyage

INTENTION, AUTHENTICITY AND ESSENCE: The Challenge of Evocation

Through the power of intention we manifest our human desires and our spiritual aspirations. As we look about we must question both the source and the outcome of the intentions behind the reality we now experience on this planet. Human intentions arise from within the personality or are, at very least, greatly influenced by the personality. Integral, unambiguous, and beneficent intentions can only emerge from an integral and unambiguous personality. Perhaps our greatest human challenge is the transformational journey towards authentic pesonal integrity. This presidential address explores both personal and spiritual aspects of that journey

The Unicorn Newsletter Fall 2015

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