Memphis, Tennessee, is often the subject of negative media attention, particularly when it comes to crime and poverty.However, after working for months with local non-profit organizations as part of our Narrative Change work, we were able to confirm what residents of the city have always known—that…
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This paper finds that decreases in education spending affect the gender gap in time spent in child care, with women allocating more time weekly.
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People with disabilities face higher levels of food insecurity, reforms to SNAP can help increase access to nutritious food.
Read the full article at: foodtank.com
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When the board of a foundation dedicated to innovation in healthcare delivery asked, “What could we achieve with advocacy?”, the question changed the entire trajectory of its philanthropy. Executive Director…
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Digital technologies have dazzled but not delivered the expected dividend in higher aggregate productivity growth. Inequality has been rising. The COVID-19 pandemic can reinforce these dynamics as it accelerates digital…
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To improve Black women’s economic well-being, policymakers will need to address systemic racial and gender disparities in education, employment, housing, and health care.
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The Prison Policy Initiative Research Library was updated with a link to Advancing Transgender Justice: Illuminating Trans Lives Behind and Beyond Bars by Vera Institute of Justice and Black and Pink National
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The pandemic has proved in the starkest of terms the importance of childcare and preschool programs. Working parents have overnight found their childcare upended as capacity and hours shrunk or…
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America’s staggering economic inequality, particularly impacting people of color, and the financial instability of most individuals and families in the United States, show that our society is not on a sustainable…
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Climate disclosure rules are meant to help investors understand their risks, but they come with costs for companies, as a finance scholar explains.
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Why building capacity for design into mental health policymaking will produce more effective services.
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Drought and wildfire in the West, rising seas and erosion in the Mississippi River Delta, and erratic weather patterns throughout the entire country are destabilizing rural and Tribal economies and…