This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Within two months of leaving the hospital, nearly 7% of the patients in the study had died, including more than 10% of the patients treated in an intensive care unit.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We grade students throughout their lives, but have you ever wondered how we would measure our communities when it comes to things that truly matter, like student outcomes? What grades…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. North Dakota doesn’t provide statewide funding for prekindergarten. But while we’re working with our partners at the North Dakota Department of Human Services to garner support for this and similar…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last week Shari Graydon — editor at Informed Opinions, a Canadian nonprofit working to elevate women’s voices in the media — wrote a beautiful article about the opportunity that the pandemic is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University; Amisha Shah, Purdue University, and Kristofer P. Isaacson, Purdue University When wildfires swept through the hills near Santa Cruz, California, in 2020, they released toxic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After the US Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech, Holly Fernandez Lynch sheds light on the EUA process. The agency is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When COVID-19 was layered onto the already fragile child care system, it shattered. Many providers remain closed or are in danger of closing, parents are struggling to find child care…
Giving Compass’ Take: • A report at Migration Policy Institute demonstrates the disproportionate impact of coronavirus on unemployment for immigrant women. • How does the disparate impact of the pandemic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.S. election results are in, but ugly political divisions still confront us. Vaccines to vanquish COVID-19 are on the horizon, but we’re not quite there yet. And we know…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A mere month before the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan, China, the tiny Asian kingdom of Bhutan (population 775,000) was already working with the World Health Organization…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed a growing shortage of nurses, it should have been good news that there were more than 1,200 applicants to enter the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before the pandemic, nine state prison systems and the BOP were operating at 100% capacity or more. These prison systems were holding more people than their facilities were designed to…