Public and private benefits are crucial to a worker’s financial security, but the design and delivery of these benefits disproportionately exclude low-wage workers, workers of color, and workers in non-traditional…
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Click here for more.By: Rhiannon Guzelian, Communications Manager, NVI This blog is part of an ongoing series on veterans and food insecurity. Once you’ve read this primer on food insecurity among the veteran…
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Click here for more.Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, public schools identified a record 1.5 million children and youth experiencing homelessness this year – roughly the population of Dallas, Texas. We anticipate the pandemic…
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Click here for more.In late August, the Raikes Foundation announced our new Black Leadership & Power Fund. It was a major accomplishment for our team at a time when many of us were…
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Click here for more.Six months into a pandemic that is keeping many businesses closed across the United States, and with close to 1 million new unemployment claims continuing to be added each week,…
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Click here for more.Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos, his ex-wife, are giving away US$2 billion. The money will fund existing nonprofits to support homeless families and establish a new network of…
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Click here for more.What sets a smart city apart? Arguably, the smart city is differentiated — and driven — by its ability to evaluate its existing infrastructure; identify inefficiencies and opportunities for technological enhancement;…
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • This article from The Marshall Project shares a story from a past inmate who became a prison firefighter and how it changed his life for the better. …
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Click here for more.Giving Compass’ Take: • According to a new study from Washington University in St. Louis, warning labels can keep consumers from choosing sugary drinks like soda, with graphics having the…
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Click here for more.Homeownership in the United States has long functioned as a wealth equalizer, allowing middle-class families to build wealth while they pay for their housing costs. Because houses have generally appreciated…
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Click here for more.The deaths of more than 350 migrants in the 2013 sinking of an overloaded smuggling vessel off the Italian island of Lampedusa shocked the world and reignited debate over the…
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Click here for more.At a time when higher education is in constant flux – some of it is online, some of it is in person with students at a social distance, some of…