Advocacy and Policy

New analysis shows that emerging baby bonds policies have great potential to reduce wealth gaps between Black and white Americans.

A world with basic income is one of less poverty and higher taxes, not utopia or collapse.

Treatment programs rather than incarceration are far more effective for drug-related offenses.

Throughout the Paso del Norte region of southern New Mexico and El Paso, Texas, La Semilla Food Center is cultivating long-term, sustainable, and restorative changes to the food system. Formed…

Imagine: you can’t leave the house without your spouse’s permission. You don’t get to decide what to wear in public, or whether and where you work. You are forced to marry…

Because of new restrictions on abortion, a generation of doctors will be ill-equipped to meet their patients’ needs due to insufficient gynecological training, experts warn. And across the country, maternal-care deserts will likely expand, as graduating medical students and residents avoid…

Abortion was never readily available to Indigenous women, and the reversal of Roe v. Wade made it worse.

California is the world’s fifth-largest economy. Laws tested there often spread across the U.S. and around the world.

“Philanthropy can be a linchpin, capable of bringing together the public sector’s authority and agenda-setting power and the private sector’s financial resources and dynamism.”…

Women in leadership, strategic advocacy, helped pave the way for federally-funded child care in Canada…

For many former foster care students, housing instability is a major impediment to completing a college degree.

A new study of Florida’s fiscal vulnerability to climate change finds that flooding directly threatens many local tax bases.