This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Twenty percent fewer kindergartners on track to learn how to read than their peers were at this time last year, and most haven’t made much progress since the fall, according…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We are all far too aware of the historic challenges of 2020. While much has been written about the acute challenges brought on by the pandemic, the shuttering of businesses,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the United States, we know that long-standing systemic health and social inequities increase the likelihood of poor outcomes or death for members of racial and ethnic minority groups. For example, Black…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Women gained legal rights in nearly 30 countries last year despite disruption due to COVID-19, but governments must do more to ease the disproportionate burden shouldered by women during the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. American students were experiencing widespread mental-health distress long before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. A tragic expression of this distress, youth suicide has been on the rise for the past…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Editor’s note: On Tuesday, Feb. 24, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released the results of its trial of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. The FDA found the vaccine…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The past year has presented a flurry of devastating challenges for California. Wildfires and the pandemic delivered a one-two punch to the state, with a record-setting 4 million acres burned in 2020 and more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If reparations for the descendants of enslaved people had occurred before the COVID-19 pandemic, virus transmissions could have been significantly lower not only for Black Americans, but also across racial…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Atlanta Women’s Foundation examines all of our work through a gender lens because social problems affect women and girls in unique ways—biologically, psychologically, and economically—so programs designed to deal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Prior to the current coronavirus recession, most U.S. economic metrics pointed to a slow but steady nationwide recovery amid an 11-year post-Great Recession run of economic growth. But prosperity was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the COVID-19 epidemic continues to ravage the American public, an unsurprising story emerges: Poor communities are hot spots for COVID transmission. The death rate from COVID-19 appears to be…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The great regret that will always haunt me isn’t something I did; it was something I didn’t do. In the early 1990s, I was working full-time on the transition to…