This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Natural hazards like wildfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in our region test our community’s resilience. Often times, they worsen the already dramatic disparities of wealth and power along racial and economic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On 3rd May 2019, Tropical Cyclone Fani hit the Odisha coast affecting the lives of over 15 million people. Of these, the largest number of people were affected by failure of basic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Older Americans who want to live independently face serious economic challenges. Half who live alone don’t have enough income to afford even a bare-bones budget in their home communities, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Coupling the effects of this pandemic on people already experiencing the crisis of homelessness, service providers in our field are now faced with even more insurmountable challenges. There is no…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This is the second of two op-eds from The Shared Prosperity Partnership. We asked leaders in each of these eight cities to describe briefly the considerations, strategies, and tactics required to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. School closures due to the nationwide lockdown in March 2020 meant that children were disengaged with formal education for a prolonged period. The resulting talks around e-education exposed India’s digital…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s more important than ever that news stories about disasters in the time of a pandemic frame the impacts of environmental phenomena in meaningful ways. The combined effects of the…
America is experiencing a housing affordability crisis. Even before the pandemic, in no state, metropolitan area, or county in the U.S. could a worker earning the federal or prevailing state…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A massive force is reshaping the fashion industry: secondhand clothing. According to a new report, the U.S. secondhand clothing market is projected to more than triple in value in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In an ongoing analysis of the nation’s 100 most high-profile school districts, the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a non-partisan research and policy analysis organization, found slightly more than half of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Artificial intelligence is an increasingly prevalent part of our everyday lives. From live-updating, turn-by-turn driving directions to responsive voice-controlled digital assistants—all in the palms of our hands—we are constantly interacting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When I joined yli, I went through the process of learning about local politics alongside my youth. I felt so limited. It’s hard to be your full social justice self when…