This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Secretary Fudge, with support from other members of the Biden-Harris Administration, launched House America: an all hands on deck effort to address the nation’s homelessness crisis. House America calls upon state and local…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As tens of thousands of Afghans have been forced to flee their country over the last few months, I’ve been listening to Afghans in the United States, worrying both for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How much does it cost to take care of basic needs in prison? Our research team at New York University’s Prison Education Program set out to find an answer to…
On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Bloomberg journalist Deena Shanker joins Mark Bittman, author of the book How to Cook Everything and editor-in-chief of Heated, to talk about how to fix the food…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public health officials and outside experts warned the federal government for years before the coronavirus pandemic that the US was not focusing enough on public health prevention. They were proven right. Now…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of child care for families with young children, but it has also exposed the child care crisis that existed long before March 2020. Early childhood…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea States’ financial investments in public benefit programs for low-income families are associated with less child abuse…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In February 2017, when Keia Blount was preparing to be released after serving a five-year prison term at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, she had no idea where…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hoping to step up the federal government’s response to long-standing water issues facing Native American communities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released an “action plan” earlier this month that will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Arc of the United States was founded seventy years ago by families like mine who wanted their loved ones with intellectual and developmental disabilities included in every aspect of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With today’s news that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization 1.66 million times in fiscal year (FY) 2021 (a number that rises…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When the ACLU was established in 1920, the freedoms enumerated in the Constitution had never been fully tested in the courts, and only through persistent and broad public activism have…