This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A lack of data on student-parents, specifically, inspired the study, said Sara Gorman, director of research and knowledge dissemination at the Jed Foundation, during a webinar Wednesday. Just over one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nationwide sources of local rental information can be broken down into two categories: public surveys (specifically, the American Community Survey, or ACS) and proprietary real estate data. The ACS provides…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hurricanes and tropical storms are estimated to cost the U.S. economy more than US$50 billion yearly in damage from winds and flooding. And as these storms travel across the Atlantic,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly all 50 states have opted into an online purchasing pilot for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). While the program offers a safer way to shop and has the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Fish and other aquatic foods are integral to diets for more than 1 billion people worldwide. Most of these people live in low- and middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Plant disease surveillance, improved detection systems, and global predictive disease modeling are necessary to mitigate future disease outbreaks and protect the global food supply, according to a team of researchers.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At the outset of the pandemic, working people who have long been overlooked and undervalued in America’s economic system were suddenly considered “essential,” and met with applause and national pressure…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. India is still home to one-third of the stunted children in the world, and has the highest number of wasted children globally. Stunting impairs cognitive potential and productivity, and wasting,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new farmer-owned app is connecting consumers with growers across the United States. Called GrownBy, the app allows shoppers to purchase produce directly from farms. These personal transactions give growers more…
Even before the pandemic, fifty million Americans – disproportionally workers with low wages, women, and workers of color – did not have access to the tools they need to build…
In a recent Food Tank interview, Seventh Generation’s Martin Wolf argues that a systems change is needed to make the private sector more sustainable. Founded in 1988, Seventh Generation is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. People I meet always want to know how I survived the systems. Until recently, it was a question I dreaded to be asked. I wanted to avoid being retraumatized, looked…