Human Services

Grassroots groups that address violence in their communities are lean and underfunded and provide crucial services to their neighborhoods. They’re also increasingly recognized as indispensable to the safety and wellbeing of the places where they work.

High temperatures could lead to 235,000 ER visits and 56,000 hospital admissions for heat-related conditions annually.

The White House had sought to forgive up to $20,000 in student debt for borrowers with annual incomes under $125,000.

Of 89 criminal cases recently solved with the growing but controversial use of genetic genealogy databases — all following the highly-publicized arrest of the Golden State Killer in 2018 — just four were…

Eighteen months of a pandemic laid bare widening inequities embedded in our education system, our economy, and many other aspects of our society. Among the many gaps exposed by the…

Learning from global peers and using the sustainable development goals as a framework for measuring progress, US cities are accelerating solutions to social problems.

New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams released a roadmap to improve food education in the largest school system in the United States.

Smoke from Canada’s wildfires in Ontario and Québec has dipped south again, causing air quality alerts for more than 80 million in the U.S.

Nearly three years ago, the Creek fire devastated the community of Big Creek and the town’s only elementary school.

The night before Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005, Tiffany Woods and Emmanuel Scott fled the city, driving 320 miles northwest with their four small children. The youngest was…

During his State of the Union address last week, President Biden discussed the historic, bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which, he suggested, will help the nation “withstand the devastating effects…

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