I’ve been hearing a lot about how Wall Street is primarily to blame for the dramatic rise in housing costs. Yes, it’s easy to blame Wall Street for everything, but…
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Over the last few years, there has been greater recognition that addressing society’s most deeply rooted inequalities requires moving power and resources into the hands of local leaders and directly…
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In 1865, The US government decided that newly freed African Americans should have a plot of land to call their own, and promised emancipated slaves “40 acres and a mule” to build…
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Cancer remains a devastating health crisis nearly fifty years after the declaration of the “War on Cancer.” Better treatments and earlier detection have dramatically improved prognosis for some types of…
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Click here for more.In response to the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, the US Congress pumped trillions of dollars into the economy in the form of stimulus checks, expanded unemployment benefits, and targeted…
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Click here for more.In 2019, renewable power was having a moment — but not where you’d expect. Arkansas, South Carolina, and Utah, among the reddest of red states, passed landmark legislation paving the…
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Click here for more.For many pregnant people in Baytown, Texas, there aren’t a whole lot of options. That’s not just in terms of seeking services for reproductive health like abortion care, although there…
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A 2016 study reports that up to half of those killed by law enforcement officers are disabled. Also consider that 10% of all calls to police involve someone suffering a mental health crisis, and…
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Abortions rights supporters around the world reacted with outrage to the leak on May 3 of a draft opinion of a Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling…
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A new book digs into how Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms may be fueling the rise of antisemitism in the United States and globally. According to the Anti-Defamation League,…
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Disparities in education funding, academic performance and school segregation still persist along racist lines drawn in the late 1930s, a new study has found. In the aftermath of the Great…
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For nearly two and a half years, we’ve shared one collective experience around the world. And while most of us are ready to leave behind the years of fear, uncertainty,…