Human Services

After decades without, incarcerated people can now access Pell Grants. Here’s what to know.

Massachusetts is establishing the first US green bank dedicated to sustainable affordable housing. Three experts in climate finance explain why better housing can help rein in global warming.

Industrial policies are more effective at supporting and lifting job quality when they are accompanied by strong collective bargaining laws and institutions.

The UPS strike will be the largest single-employer strike in U.S. history. It could frame worker power as an extreme heat solution.

Many domestic violence survivors qualify for unemployment insurance, can take time off to go to court or can ask for workplace accommodations. But few even know those laws exist and fewer employers are following them.

The Washington Post graph, from OSHA data In a world that’s getting hotter, laws don’t protect most workers who are subject to extreme heat,…

Vermont experienced severe flooding from remnants of Hurricane Irene in 2011, so this isn’t completely foreign to them. I’ll admit my surprise, though, viewing the photos and videos of the rushing…

The rise in the city’s violent crime has a double impact: the loss of a life and the enduring trauma of violently losing a parent.

Americans are feeling the strain of the rising cost of living as worries about a recession grow. A study from the American Psychological Association’s 2022 Stress in America Survey reports…

At a DC conference on economic justice, advocates look to the public sector to advance a more just economy. Can a revived public sector deliver on this promise?

In the wake of the East Palestine train derailment, a rail merger renews fears about moving oil and chemicals through America’s small towns.

Without local knowledge and infrastructure for unusual floods, fires, and storms, climate risks are becoming increasingly expensive.