This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated housing challenges long predating the pandemic, suggesting we can expect another housing crisis for homeowners, renters, and rental property owners. Recent data and past crises indicate that people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the study in Nature Food, researchers conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s no secret that the diversity of life around us is plummeting fast. In 2020 alone, scientists declared more than 100 species to be extinct. And that’s bad news not only…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Deadly car crashes involving both cannabis and alcohol consumption have more than doubled in the United States in the past two decades, as have car crash deaths involving just cannabis,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even before the pandemic, many students — especially those from historically underserved groups — were leaving high school unprepared for the educational demands of good jobs and too few were…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Washington Center for Equitable Growth has long prioritized the generation of new research on the economic effects of paid family and medical leave in the United States. This line…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every morning in New Bedford, MA, seafood workers clock in before dawn to plants that line the waterfront, donning gloves and plastic gowns over double layers of sweaters to keep…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) recently published a report, Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste, assessing the United States’ contribution to plastic production…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tens of thousands of California’s guest farmworkers and U.S. farmworkers will see pay increases in 2022, which advocates say comes thanks to their lawsuit to stop a Trump-era wage freeze.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Much of the national focus around electrification has centered on the transportation sector and the push toward electric vehicles. But at the local level, a growing number of cities have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rural communities throughout the United States are vibrant places with great people, rich culture and heritage, and deep social ties. But many rural communities have been buffeted by the increasing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The desire for solutions that work is driving greater use of RCTs as proof of the impact of behavioral interventions. In an RCT, one group of individuals (called the treatment…