Unicamp - Press Room

Reform is coming. But what does Congress think? The government should send to the Chamber of Deputies, at the beginning of May, the pension reform project that has been in development since January. Among the points that the government would like to change or introduce are a new minimum retirement age for current employees, doubling the waiting period in public service, setting a salary cap, reducing the value of pensions and taxing employees. inactivated indirectly. The approval of such controversial points in the Chamber will depend on the 512 deputies and the orientation of the parties. Each new rule needs three-fifths of the vote to be approved. To offer an idea of what could happen in the Chamber's cauldron when the project enters the process, Jornal da Unicamp sought to hear from some important interlocutors in Congress - the bench leaders. The result is not surprising, but it makes one thing clear: the urgency of the reform is consensual, but not the themes that compose it. Pages 5 e 6 3,3 million children live without a mother in the country The study "The Brazil of many mothers", carried out by statistician Márcia Milena Pivatto Serra for her doctoral thesis defended at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH) at Unicamp, reveals that the country has around 3,3 million children who do not are raised by their biological mothers. Developed in partnership with the Population Studies Center (Nepo), the research shows that changes in family patterns caused by divorce and early motherhood are among the main reasons why children stop living with their mother. Also according to the study, when children leave home, in 60% of cases they go to live with relatives, especially grandparents. Page 3
Whale song is recorded Ecologist Eduardo Moraes Arraut spent two months in the Abrolhos bank region, in Bahia, to record, for the first time in Brazil, the song of the humpback whale (Photograph). Armed with a recorder and a hydrophone, the researcher came to surprising discoveries, including that only the male sings. Page 12.	Unicamp clones four new genes Researchers from the Unicamp Hematology and Hemotherapy Center managed to clone for the first time four new genes responsible for the production of proteins in human cells. Coordinated by hematologist Sara Teresinha Olalla Saad (photo), the research will enable advances in the treatment of hereditary diseases and tumors. Page 11.
From TV to gambling The second article in the series about the Ibope Collection shows opinion research evaluating the impact of the arrival of TV in the country, in 1950. It was a time when Brazilians read a lot and were entertained at the cinema. They liked games of chance and red light houses were covertly accepted. This eroticism would be less camouflaged with the adoption of the bikini, which film star Corinne Calvet (photo) helped to encourage. Page 9