Democracy

The connection between foster care and homelessness is well known among those working in the field. For youth transitioning from care who had a prior episode of homelessness, a future…

If you live in one of the most economically deprived neighborhoods in your city, you might think the government is directing a smaller share of public funds to your community.…

When its six-week abortion ban went into effect on May 1, 2024, Florida joined nearly two dozen other U.S. states that ban abortion or greatly restrict it. These laws came…

Many rural counties in the United States face the dual challenges of lagging economic growth and increasingly severe effects of climate change. While urban areas are not uniformly prosperous and…

Ideally, negotiations around policy choices draw on the best evidence about what works and doesn’t work in public programs. In the case of work requirements, the evidence is clear: they…

A wave of protests expressing solidarity with the Palestinian people is spreading across college and university campuses. There were more than 400 such demonstrations by the end of April 2024…

Ayear ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. Among the banned books were children’s stories about Rosa…

Their message isn’t new, but it is gaining urgency as funding for green energy projects grows.

When an electric company runs a coal- or natural gas-fired power plant, the greenhouse gases it releases cause harm – but the company isn’t paying for the damage. Instead, the…

State lawmakers — many of whom are women — are establishing new committees to study and investigate pregnancy-related deaths, their causes and prevention.

Will we see “transformational change”? That’s what the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says it expects with reforms to disaster assistance to support survivors that went into effect on March 22. Though we…

A two-week standoff between Columbia University administration and student protesters who advocated for the school to divest from companies that work in or support Israel culminated on April 30, 2024,…