This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After decades of progress, world hunger is sadly on the rise. Last year, 690 million people went hungry, and with COVID-19, that number is growing rapidly. The pandemic has caused…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It may have taken the triple pandemic of a lethal virus, sharp economic downturn, and the national awakening to the injustices of systemic racism for many to finally realize it’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. BioNTech and the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced they had jointly developed a COVID-19 vaccine that was 90 percent effective against the coronavirus in clinical trials. Although the vaccine is not approved…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Upticks in school violence increase the likelihood of elementary students transferring schools, according to a study published this week in American Educational Research Journal. Researchers, who studied six years of data…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At the end of July, the federal government’s expanded $600 weekly unemployment benefits were set to run dry. At the time, many hoped Congress would act swiftly to provide some…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The amount of variety available at grocery stores is highly sensitive to income inequality, according to new research. Even before COVID-19 and resulting shutdowns created gridlock for some global supply…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Fishing reduces carbon sequestration in the ocean, researchers report. A fish that dies naturally in the ocean sinks to the depths, taking with it all the carbon it contains. Yet,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the past four years the New York City Behavioral Design Team (BDT)—a partnership between the NYC Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity and ideas42—has been redesigning elements of programs and services to make…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dear mayors and city council members, I appreciate that when you are making decisions for the community, you have the best interests of your constituents at heart. But as a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic struck a uniquely precarious workforce. The shock has exposed and widened rifts in our two-tiered labor market—between workers with stable jobs and the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While education beyond high school is the surest ticket to the middle class, the postsecondary landscape is complicated and hard to navigate. For those whose families and schools can’t provide…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Men in jobs with hard physical work have a higher risk of developing dementia compared to men doing sedentary work, new research reveals. Based on the findings, researchers urge health…