Health

Housing was once the most common way most families built wealth in America, but today, it is a primary driver of financial insecurity for millions of people. Before COVID-19, over…

The arrival of a baby can often mean a career break or a transition to self-employment or part-time work for mothers. Compare this to fathers who usually continue in formal, full-time employment…

As frustration spreads over the slow pace of vaccination for Covid-19, it is instructive to compare two states. One has the highest median household income of any state in the…

Sarah Lynch, Binghamton University, State University of New York and Danielle Mayer, Thomas Jefferson University The new year has brought the deadliest weeks of the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic thus far,…

The surge-upon-surge of COVID-19 cases in the United States has again focused attention on scarcity of lifesaving medical resources—hospital beds, ICU equipment, ventilators, oxygen, medications, and hospital staff. With nearly 124,000…

Across our work at the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy (CSP), we often see first-hand how difficult it can be for different scientific disciplines to collaborate. While science has made so much progress in many areas, societal advancement could go…

As the U.S. grapples with the effort to distribute massive quantities of vaccine, the fundamental challenge is the more delicate task of persuading tens of millions of others it is…

Prisons have been ravaged by the virus. At least 343,000 people in state and federal facilities around the country have tested positive as of early January, according to reporting by The Marshall…

COVID-19 has not been an equal opportunity pandemic. It has impacted Latinx, Black, and Indigenous communities; immigrants, older adults, and the uninsured more profoundly than the general population. At the…

The Trump administration expanded COVID-19 vaccine eligibility recommendations to include anyone over the age of 65 on Tuesday, but experts warn that without strategies to ensure women frontline workers are immunized, progress…

To mitigate health inequities and promote social justice, coronavirus vaccines need to get to underserved populations and hard-to-reach communities. There are few places in the U.S. that are unreachable by…

Despite Covid-19 surges in Europe, the United States of America’s extraordinary death toll remains among the worst in the developed world. As of January 9, 2021, nearly 373,000 people have…