Human Services

When we see the future of agriculture, perhaps we imagine lab-grown meat, massive seaweed farms, robots, and indoor farming. These farmers are marked by their size and run with an app to monitor…

To be successful, Black women need quality professional development.

Immigration boosts local wages and having neighbors of foreign descent can reduce prejudice, according to new research.

Violence and harassment on the job are all too common: More than 1 in 5 workers worldwide have experienced it, according to the International Labor Organization, with women slightly more…

If you want to predict how long someone is going to live and how healthy they will be throughout their life, find out their address. All around the world, it…

Black Lives Matter protests in cities with Black women police chiefs experienced significantly lower levels of violence – from both police and protesters – than cities with police chiefs of…

Women farmers feed their communities and the world. From the paddy terraces of Asia to the maize fields of sub-Saharan Africa, the woman farmer tills, plants, waters, and harvests crops…

In the U.S. and much of the world, extreme heat is the leading weather-related cause of death. While there is not a single definition of what constitutes extreme heat, there…

Candid Blog | CEP’s Tanya Gulliver-Garcia explores funding for Maui wildfires–and what learnings the record-setting response to Hawaii’s recent natural hazard hold for future investment in disaster philanthropy.

All countries now have policies, but not all work as intended. Some drive trade-offs or lead to spillover impacts elsewhere, but there are many examples of successful stories.

Early in 2020, it was estimated that almost 12 million children in America were living in poverty – a burden disproportionately affecting Black and Hispanic kids, as well as those living…

Born and raised in Mount Pulaski, a town in central Illinois, Tom Martin has seen several grocery stores shut their doors over the years. The last one closed in 2016. …