Advocacy and Policy

The movement to green the American economy is gaining momentum. At the federal level, as well as in places like Illinois, Maine and New York City, lawmakers have passed legislation designed to reduce carbon emissions…

Adults insured by Medicaid who are 19 to 55 years old and don’t have children or other dependents would need to spend 80 hours a month doing paid work, job training or community service.

As a society, everyone is motivated to regulate AI development. For individual companies, though, the opposite is true.

Like it or not, policy advocacy is a large group project.  Different advocacy organizations supporting the same policy bring different insights, resources, skills, and abilities to do the work. The…

Even if you don’t live near farm country, you’ve got a stake in the upcoming farm bill – including what kind of farms your tax dollars support.

Three forces are pulling down ESG’s once-rapid rise in the investment world.

The global COVID-19 pandemic brought into stark relief the differences between the haves and the have-nots. The divide is especially apparent when it comes to technology. Lack of devices and…

Last year was the year that American cities became small. Almost overnight, New York fractured from a city of 20 million into millions of micro-cities — each household morphing into…

Rather than protecting some of the world’s most vulnerable children, many of Africa’s orphanages are exploiting them.

Two activists from Direct Action Everywhere were just acquitted for taking factory-farmed chickens worth $16.

While working for the City of Lansing’s Department of Neighborhoods and Citizen Engagement (DNCE) back in summer 2018, my colleagues and I realized something was amiss with our Neighborhood Advisory Board Grants program. The…

Today’s focus is on washing machines. But a portfolio of microfiber solutions addressing everything from clothing manufacturing to disposal is taking shape.