Author: Jessica Roberts Martin

Playground, a film on child trafficking in the United States, will be screened at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Steinberg Hall auditorium. A panel discussion featuring Libby Spears, the film’s director, and local experts will follow the documentary.

Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times and best-selling author, will present “Half the Sky: From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide” at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, in Graham Chapel. Kristof’s talk, the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Lecture in Social Policy, is free and open to the public.

The Gephardt Institute for Public Service invites faculty to apply for grants to support their community-based teaching and learning, also known as experiential education, engaged research and most commonly, service learning.

A 10-year study on Child Development Accounts (CDAs) has confirmed their viability as a tool for long-term asset building. Beginning as early as birth, CDAs are investment accounts that allow parents and children to accumulate savings for post-secondary education, homeownership or business initiatives. 

Washington University in St. Louis School of Law and Saint Louis University Law School are co-hosting the Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law Friday and Saturday, Sept. 24 and 25.

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Missouri has one of the highest statewide smoking averages in the country, more than 23 percent. And racial and ethnic minorities, people with lower incomes and education levels, Medicaid recipients and the LGBT community smoke or experience secondhand smoke at a rate significantly higher than the state average.These findings are highlighted in a new report by the Center for Tobacco Policy Research (CTPR) at Washington University in St. Louis. The report, “Who is Most Affected? Tobacco-Related Disparities in Missouri,” identifies statewide differences related to who is smoking, who is exposed to secondhand smoke and who is quitting.CTPR is offering a media-only webinar on the new disparities report at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21. Researchers will discuss the report and be available to answer questions about the findings. Visit https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/895612886 to register. More information about CTPR’s report is available at: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/21180.aspx  .ExternalClass p.MsoNormal, .ExternalClass li.MsoNormal, .ExternalClass div.MsoNormal {margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:’Times New Roman’;} .ExternalClass a:link, .ExternalClass span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} .ExternalClass a:visited, .ExternalClass span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;} .ExternalClass div.Section1 {page:Section1;}    

Current census figures show that one in seven Americans is living below the poverty level, a rate that nears the record poverty levels of 1960. “The latest rise in the poverty rate illustrates how many more Americans are at risk of poverty and economic insecurity in this country,” says Mark R. Rank, PhD, poverty expert and the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. 

The Washington University in St. Louis School of Law has announced that 22 recent graduates have secured judicial clerkships this year in 13 different states and the District of Columbia. Eighteen clerks are 2010 graduates and four are alumni. Despite a difficult job market, the total number of law school graduates securing clerkships rose by more than 40 percent over 2009.

The Gephardt Institute for Public Service and the American Constitution Society at the School of Law will commemorate Constitution Day with a panel discussion on “The First Amendment in the 21st Century” from 12-1:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 17, in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge. Registration is required by Wednesday, Sept. 15, to Robin Hattori, assistant director at the Gephardt Institute, at rhattori@wustl.edu. Lunch will be provided to the first 35 registered attendees.