This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Compared to a normal year, students learned less in 2020, were more likely to fail their classes and were less likely to be in school at all. Is this all…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At Youth Co:Lab, an initiative co-led by UNDP and Citi Foundation, we are particularly focused on the vital contributions that young female entrepreneurs make to their communities and societies in Asia-Pacific,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Recent research by consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has shown that women have lost their jobs at a higher rate than men in the world’s wealthiest countries, while according to the UN, violence against…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Thalia Jones had always liked the idea of becoming an educator. But she wanted to make sure it would be the right fit. “I needed reassurance to know that I…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2018, when journalists like myself started reporting that China was putting Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in internment camps, experts said we shouldn’t call it genocide — yet. Though they said…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Olivier De Schutter recently conducted a two-month mission to the European Union, where women are more likely to fall into poverty than men, a situation that has further deteriorated as a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New research from California shows a sizable decline in applications for university financial aid during the first phases of the COVID-19 pandemic. The trend among first-year college students has not…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For far too long, ZIP codes have had the power to shape people’s access to opportunity, upward mobility, and even how long they live. This fundamental injustice—birthed from generations of spatially distributed structural racism—has…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In this country, vast racial inequalities are nothing new. They are the result of centuries of structural racism—unequal treatment by American institutions—and dominant white power structures—toward people of color. COVID-19…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jim Shelton is President for Education at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Previously, Mr. Shelton served as Deputy Secretary of the United States Department of Education under then President Barack Obama.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Child marriage rates are set to increase at alarming rates within the next decade because of COVID-19, a new report from UNICEF warns. In the report published on Monday, the organization revealed that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we continue to grapple with the effects of the 2020 crises, the cascading challenges communities are facing show no signs of slowing down. The LGBTQ+ community, which is more…