Human Services

The number of people enduring unsheltered homelessness rose in most communities across the country last year. Homelessness response systems are working diligently to rehouse people but they face an uphill climb due to increasing…

Hunger and famine will persist and there will be unequal recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic unless more women in rural and urban areas hold leadership positions with…

DCCK recently received a grant to support their Healthy Corners program and improve food security for urban residents.

A new UN report finds that the true global cost of producing food is $12.7 trillion more than consumers pay at the checkout counter. We pay those uncounted costs in other ways.

While fossil fuels were powering wealthy nations’ economic growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, many countries across the Global South remained largely impoverished. Today, all that burning of oil,…

Platforms like Flexie support black and brown youth connecting to job opportunities that fit their lives and schedules.

The pipeline into teaching is objectively worse now than at any other point in recent memory, writes Michael Hansen.

Black people have often been at the forefront of movements for social change across the United States, both past and present, from protesting racial segregation to organizing against police brutality.…

Bangladesh, situated in South Asia, confronts a multitude of challenges regarding disasters. Natural calamities impact approximately 6% of its population annually, with the country serving as a hotspot for tropical…

The increasing regularity of “once in a lifetime” disasters raises questions not only about the effectiveness of state and federal hazard mitigation policies but about which communities continue to bear…

When we talk about the term “food justice,” I think there are lots of ways that people exclusively associate it with poverty and humans that have been forced to live in…

The retirement of baby boomer business owners provides a wave of opportunities for millions of employees to buy out businesses. Here’s one tool to do that.