August 16, 2013
Friday Round-Up: This Week in the News
- The Nation’s “This Week in Poverty” blog shares some of the written testimony submitted to the House Budget Committee by Tianna Gaines-Turner, whose family of five struggles to make ends meet and has experienced homelessness twice in the last two years.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/175674/week-poverty-expert-testimony-tianna-gaines-turner#axzz2c37G9DMJ
(The Nation) - Science News takes a look at the debate among psychiatrists about whether borderline personality disorder should continue to be considered a mental illness.
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/352407/description/Mental_disorder_seen_as_badness_not_sickness
(ScienceNews) - Rapper Nas was inspired to help one local homeless family – a single father with eight children – get back into stable housing. The Crowdtilt campaign started by the rapper has raised over $63,000.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2013/08/09/rapper-nas-raises-more-than-40000-for-homeless-d-c-family/
(The Washington Post)