This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. hat do a Hmong service member, an Indian student and a Korean Midwesterner all have in common? From a public health perspective, they are all the same: Asian American. Health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Guatemalan authorities have reported that 12 people were killed in the village of Chiquix, 155km (96 miles) east of the capital, where a long-running land dispute has sparked conflicts between…
This edition of our #AskHer webinar featured Dr. Lea J.E. Austin, Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley and…
“Among women who weren’t using contraception when they got pregnant, the primary reason was because they didn’t think they could get pregnant,” explains Sarah Cowan, an assistant professor of sociology at New…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At The Colorado Health Foundation, we are relentlessly committed to advancing health equity and believe it exists when there are no avoidable, unfair or systemically-caused differences in health status. To…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Weeping may last for the night but rejoicing comes in the morning. Psalm 30:5 As we emerge from the collective trauma of these past 19 months and assess the post-apocalyptic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent years, there has been growing consensus that jail incarceration is harmful and unnecessary because it causes damage to people’s stability and health and does not meaningfully reduce crime…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before the pandemic, New Jersey resident and senior citizen, Susan Schwitzer did not know what Zoom was. Today, she is “Zooming” some days from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., participating…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To realize the full value of human services community-based organizations, we need to change both the narrative around what they do and the structures for funding them, stressing shared values…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Inmate firefighters have battled some of California’s most destructive wildfires, including the Thomas Fire, the Mendocino Complex Fire, the Ferguson Fire, and the Camp Fire. But for years, most former inmates…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I became CEO of Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center (BCNC) in June 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise in xenophobia and anti-Asian hate, and two weeks…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many years now, conventional solutions to income and wealth inequality—minimum wage, unions, progressive taxation, or guaranteed income—have failed to gain enough momentum to reverse the trend of greater and…