This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. An increase in the number of sex-based discrimination charges filed with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in recent years prompted the research, says Eden King, an associate professor of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Grameen America, a nonprofit that provides loans to help low-income entrepreneurs, is doing all it can to aid Black women whose businesses have been hurt by the pandemic. Its goal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over time, internet access has shifted from an amenity to a necessity. Nothing has illustrated that shift more clearly than the pandemic, which forced school, work and most everything else…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Fire and health officials began issuing warnings about wildfire smoke several weeks earlier than normal this year. With almost the entire U.S. West in drought, signs already pointed to a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s the summer of cascading disasters in the United States: Downpours have made rivers of major metropoles’ transit lines, a coastal condo collapsed, flames have engulfed vast swaths of land,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past two decades, the global aquaculture industry has increased its focus on sustainability, according to a recent review published in Nature. Aquaculture production can help feed the world’s growing population by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What’s so wrong with shared housing? The answer is nothing. Shared housing is a completely normal and accepted living situation. Families share housing while raising kids. Roommates share housing, especially…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to exacerbate the nation’s geographic divergence in community well-being and economic prosperity that has been widening since the Great Recession. Over one-quarter of U.S. counties…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2010, heavy monsoons led to devastating floods in Pakistan that destroyed 11,000 schools. Thousands of additional schools had to be used as community shelters, preventing them from operating as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Afar-reaching study has found Generation Z could shake up the workplace, transforming how it has operated for decades. The survey of nearly 7,000 13-25-year-olds Gen Z’ers — the nation’s most…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Though it has been commonly accepted for decades, the notion that the sole purpose of business is to maximize shareholder profit ignores the needs of our broader communities and the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Reawakened Foods Initiative is leveraging the power of storytelling to bring awareness to crops that are vital for supporting biodiversity around the world. According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture…