Advocacy and Policy

Care for people who have had a miscarriage may be compromised in states that restrict abortions, a new study shows.

Five social impact trends and opportunities that we hope will define the year ahead.

Even after January’s storms, California faces a water-scarce future. An economist and an engineer propose a way to test higher water prices as a conservation strategy without hurting low-income users.

Jurors can perceive events in a video in different ways – one of which depends on how the evidence is presented in court, a media scholar explains.

There is always a glass-half-full aspect to grantmaking: While we are proud of what our grants have helped accomplish, we recognize that we can always do better. Looking back on…

On his first day in office, President Biden signed an executive order acknowledging the toll of structural racism in the United States and initiating a data-driven approach to advancing racial equity. As part of…

Texas wasn’t prepared to keep the lights on during Winter Storm Uri, and it won’t be ready for future cold weather unless it starts thinking about energy demand as well as supply.

Evidence from Massachusetts suggests that a multistep process discourages enrollment. The findings could help policymakers stave off a sharp decline in coverage when COVID-19 policies change.

Overview of Equitable Growth’s panel session on the economic impacts of climate change and climate policy at the 2023 ASSA annual conference.

In the United States, racial inequalities and disparities stem from policies and practices that perpetuate structural racialization. Structural racialization is a “set of practices, cultural norms, and institutional arrangements that…

Over a half century after transformative civil rights laws such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made discrimination illegal, our nation is still grappling with its…