How can one of nation’s most unhealthy regions—the Central Valley of California—turn itself and its dismal statistics around? The answers lie in education, access, and addressing inequalities, a panel of healthcare professionals and advocates told a crowd at Fresno’s Arte Américas, at an event sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation. …
Americans are trading places. The more affluent are moving into city centers, and the lower classes are being displaced to the suburbs. It’s what urbanologist Alan Ehrenhalt calls a “demographic inversion.” This phenomenon, Ehrenhalt told a crowd at the Phoenix Art Museum, at an event co-presented by Arizona State University, means changing our concepts of cities, suburbs, and urban mobility. …
We are on the cusp of a new scientific revolution that is going to destroy—and rebuild—healthcare as we know it. The technology for it already exists, according to Eric Topol, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care. But, he told the crowd at an event sponsored by the California HealthCare Foundation at MOCA Grand Avenue, making proper use of this technology will require a push from consumers. …
Journalist Tracie McMillan’s year-long journey through the most menial jobs in the American food system—picking grapes and garlic in California fields, stocking a Wal-Mart produce section outside Detroit, and working the line at Applebee’s in Brooklyn—began with a rant. She wanted to write about how “stupid foodies are really irritating, and I really think we should talk about food for normal people.” …
The Second Annual Zócalo Public Square Book Prize was made possible by the Southern California Gas Company with additional support from the Shepard Broad Foundation.
“Everybody in principle is for communal cooperation,” said sociologist Richard Sennett, winner of the 2012 Zócalo Book Prize for his book Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation. Yet cooperation in America today—in politics, in neighborhoods, in the workplace, and even in schools—is diminishing. Why is something we all agree on so difficult to accomplish? After accepting his award at MOCA Grand Avenue, Sennett, a professor at the London School of Economics, New York University, and the University of Cambridge, explored why people in our diverse society have so much difficulty working together—and how we might solve this pervasive problem. …
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