This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A strong national defense depends on a well-supported military. Members of the armed services and their families are the most important resource the U.S. has in terms of national defense.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Twenty years ago, even as manufacturing jobs moved offshore, young people could still gain a foothold in the workforce through neighborhood stores and restaurants. Over the past decade, youth could…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although the United States still leads the industrialized world in its incarceration rate of young people, the lock-up rate is rapidly declining. This 4-page snapshot report presents statistics underscoring the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Earthquakes, floods, epidemics, mass dislocations: the scale of human suffering caused by disasters prompts many of us to ask, “How can I help?” When disasters strike, here’s how to help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A California mayor hopes China will save his town from meth labs and neo-Nazis By Matt Sheehan on May 31, 2017 Rex Parris’ gaze blankets Lancaster, California. Driving northeast out…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Around the Ford Foundation and around the world, we’ve all been talking and thinking a lot about how inequality affects our ability to achieve the fabled American Dream: the idea…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many American families, every day is a juggling act involving work, child care, school and conflicting schedules. But for low-income families, the balls are more likely to fall, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the past, religious and community groups were the main forces addressing hunger. But, after the economic recession in the early 1980s, and due to budget cuts to federal programs under…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new, multi-dimensional measure of human needs based on objective data from a nonprofit on the frontlines of providing social services was announced by The Salvation Army and the Indiana…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even with improvements in unemployment rates and the economy over the past few years, the rates of hunger in America remain pervasively high. Some 12.7 percent of people living in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some 21% of all U.S. children live in households with incomes below the 2015 federal poverty threshold of $24,036 for a family of four. Such poverty—coupled with toxic stress caused…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Facts: 84 percent of those prostituted report current or past homelessness 50,000 people are prostituted2 in the city of Chicago at any given time, almost all of whom are homeless.…