This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the summer, housemates Thelma and Dave enjoyed distanced, masked socializing on their patio with family members.While many other residents of elder-care homes found themselves confined to their rooms by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Period poverty is a prevalent issue in South Africa, where there remains a large number of people who don’t have access to menstrual education or sanitary products. Creating access to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across the U.S., millions of people lack reliable and affordable water, transportation, energy, and broadband access. Now, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought these underlying infrastructure failures into sharp relief; for Americans who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has helped make the inadequacy of many existing systems obvious. We now see: How easily regimes uninterested in transparency can stymie international systems for monitoring and sharing data…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has laid bare many truths about our country’s racial health and wealth gaps, and gaping inequities in work and employment are at the top of the list. Low-wage…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As Chicago, Illinois residents struggle with the economic downturn as a result of the coronavirus, the Love Fridge Chicago is bringing fully stocked refrigerators to neighborhoods struggling with food apartheid. According to a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Blindness is a major public health issue, both in India and across the world. It is estimated that 1.1 billion people globally live with a vision impairment and that 90 percent of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “More and more people will suffer from extreme droughts if a medium-to-high level of global warming continues and water management is maintained at its present state,” says lead author Yadu Pokhrel, associate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our study aims to gather information on how states, territories, and Washington, DC, communicated with jurisdictions effectively to provide time-sensitive information on school meal programs as a result of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just over a year ago, the Rockefeller Foundation put out a global call for proposals for radical reform of our food systems. More than 1,300 teams from 119 countries responded.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sharon Austin, University of Florida On Apr. 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, while assisting striking sanitation workers. Back then, over a half century…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent months, we have seen an increase in the attention paid to informal workers, both in policy and media circles. Some of these narratives have been positive, recognising the…