Human Services

Housing market data traditionally assign race and ethnicity categories to households based on the primary borrower or head of household, but this practice can obfuscate crucial differences for dual-race couples.

A Denver police unit started investigating all shootings like homicides. Now other cities are taking notice.

Young workers often face barriers to self-advocacy in the workplace, but organizations can empower these young people by making space, building their skills, and creating communities.

And there isn’t much the court can do to enforce it, the Supreme Court justice said in a hearing focused on the state’s public defense woes.

Big Tech companies are lobbying hard to enshrine new forms of inequality into law.

Six years after Myanmar’s brutal crackdown, Al Jazeera explores the current living conditions in Rohingya refugee camps.

Declines in student loan borrowing are not equal across student cohorts, with Black students, those attending for-profits, and those earning certificates seeing increases in debt burdens over the past decade.

State governments can improve job quality among Latina workers by expanding access to health care, retirement plans, and child care.

The gender pay gap might seem like an individual problem — of a man simply earning more than a woman because of merit, experience, or some other legitimate factor — …

Indigenous, Black, and queer farmers are buying land with the aim to restore and nourish nature along with their cultures and communities.

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Disasters have been a constant presence in the news this year, including devastating floods in Vermont and historically deadly wildfires in Hawaii. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, there have…

During the mid- to late-1960s, the main slogans of the African American social justice movements were “freedom now” and “Black Power.”  It was recognized that both political power and economic…