This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On Wednesday, Congress passed one of the most sweeping relief programs for minority farmers in the nation’s history, through a provision of President Biden’s pandemic stimulus bill. Although the landmark…
Giving Compass’ Take: • The Building Capacity to Use Research Evidence (BCURE) program funded by the UK’s DFID aimed to identify capacity-building strategies to help low- and middle-income countries to create…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly devastating for artists and arts organizations. If there is a silver lining, it’s that coordinated efforts by arts advocacy groups in cooperation with bipartisan Congressional…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Racial injustice can manifest in many different ways, but hair discrimination against Black Americans is often overlooked. In 42 states across the US, the law doesn’t protect citizens from discrimination for how they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Schools that serve free breakfast and lunch to all kids spend up to 67 cents less per meal than schools that don’t, according to a new analysis of USDA data.…
A phone call is the only way that most of the 2.2 million incarcerated people across the United States can contact family and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic, as thousands of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2018, when journalists like myself started reporting that China was putting Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in internment camps, experts said we shouldn’t call it genocide — yet. Though they said…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Olivier De Schutter recently conducted a two-month mission to the European Union, where women are more likely to fall into poverty than men, a situation that has further deteriorated as a…
Even before the pandemic and associated economic fallout, one in four working adults in the US earned a wage insufficient to lift a small family out of poverty. The impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The City of Pittsburgh is implementing an “Equitable Street Tree Investment Strategy” to better distribute and maintain tree canopies in low-income and low-canopy neighborhoods as it pursues a goal to plant 100,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From redefining the idea of beauty to eliminating the stigma of mental health issues, social activism comes in many forms. And this drive to bring change to communities has made…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The oil industry’s lobbying arm, the American Petroleum Institute, suggested in a new draft statement that it might support Congress putting a price on carbon emissions to combat climate change,…