This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Economic growth plays a critical role in raising living standards and enabling human progress. However, economic growth needs to decouple from negative environmental consequences, as these, in turn, degrade the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Whether it’s seeing violent behavior with a family or among others in the neighborhood, or in movies, television, or violent video games, the gun use and acceptance among young adults…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic was an all-hands-on-deck moment. As communities were jolted into emergency response on many fronts—health, jobs, housing, education, childcare, food, and mental health—collaboration and coordination became essential. In Milwaukee,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Meat processing workers experience higher illness and injury rates compared with other manufacturing jobs, but their average wage is much lower. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “At each of these points, there are interventions that could reduce the barriers for individuals who have been in touch with the justice system, Coke adds, ‘and that’s really the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Around the country, global heating is increasing the frequency, intensity, and duration of summer heat waves. The recent triple-digit temperatures across the Pacific Northwest, where air conditioning in homes isn’t…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In his history of Williamson, West Virginia, Okey P. Keadle—a member of Williamson High School’s inaugural, 1918, graduating class—describes the fire of 1906 that destroyed some 20 downtown buildings. In…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Richard Hood, a retired literature professor living in Greene County, Tennessee, sums up a fear many people have about growing older: “I turned out to be a fairly typical example of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New York City teachers will be required to be vaccinated by the time school reopens in September, or be tested weekly, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. The city is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public spaces have long been shown to enhance community well-being—producing positive health, environmental, economic, and social outcomes for residents who can access them. The COVID-19 pandemic made these benefits increasingly obvious,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many Americans, buying fresh local food at one of the estimated 9,000 farmers markets across the U.S. is one of summer’s pleasures. But farmers markets aren’t just nice amenities.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If cities are to close the digital divide and end so-called “digital redlining,” they must partner with the private sector to help locally, but they also will need sustained federal help, speakers…