This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even before the outbreak of COVID-19 and resulting mass closures, high-quality child care was in short supply. Between 2018 and 2019, half of states actually saw a decline in the number of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent weeks, there have been over 20 attacks on Asian businesses and people, mostly elders, with little to no coverage from the mainstream news outlets. Videos documenting such attacks…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After a decade studying a flu virus that killed approximately 15,000 Michigan residents, Chandra, a professor in the James Madison College at Michigan State University, saw his research come to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past half a century, the difference in net worth held by families of color compared with white families has expanded substantially and is likely to grow amid the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. According to Our World in Data, the US first breached the weekly average of 1 million doses a day on January 23. Less than three weeks later, on February 11, the…
COVID-19 has had a disproportionate effect on low-income, communities of color, but conversations about racial disparities mask the real public health emergency – racism. Poor access to healthcare and bias…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Scientists have now established that the rapid melting of ice in the Arctic due to climate change has impacts on the South Asia summer monsoon. This has strengthened the Indian…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Child care workers, the vast majority of whom are women, have always faced a long list of pressures. A 2012 study found that Head Start teachers, who serve children from low-income…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We have heard for too long that there is no true solution to homelessness, with excuse after excuse on why we just can’t do it. Well, guess what? During this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past few years, worsening air quality in India—and in north India specifically—has awakened policy makers and civil society to take urgent action. There have been some efforts to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Global markets have been affected by the current climate, and the fear of a recession is high. How long this economic and financial uncertainty will last — not just for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a temporary fall in air pollution in many parts of the world, as economic activity has ebbed and movement restrictions have de-clogged congested cities.…