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Giving Compass’ Take: • Cody Tuttle finds that food stamp bans inflicted on former inmates after their release increases their chances of criminal recidivism.  • What do formerly incarcerated individuals…

Courtney Bryan is the executive director of the Center for Court Innovation, a New York City-based nonprofit that pilots innovative programs, conducts original research, and provides expert assistance to justice…

The recent rise in violent crime in the United States has added another compounding layer of hardship to a nation struggling to rebuild from the events of 2020. While overall…

At the corner of Sei Batanghari Road in Medan, the capital of Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, kindergarten students run around a building in their school uniforms. The bell to call…

When it comes to gun violence in America, one solution politicians and citizens often talk about is better mental-health screenings. But a new study suggests there’s little being done to mitigate the risks…

CC BY-ND In a new study, we found that the overall U.S. gun violence rate rose by 30% during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the year…

Growing up in public housing in North Charleston, S.C., in the 1970s, David Hayward was familiar with poverty, violence and loss. His mother, grandmother and brother all died when he…

For years now, researchers at RAND have documented the enormous toll that sexual harassment and assault have on the men and women of the U.S. military. In a recent report, they…

With students across California returning to classrooms earlier this autumn, it’s become undeniable that the ongoing pandemic is exacerbating systemic issues that long pre-date Covid-19. As in many similar districts,…

In his 2000 book “The America We Deserve,” future President Donald J. Trump argued that “we don’t have too many people in prison. Quite the contrary.” Trump added, “The next…

In fall 2019, before anyone had ever heard of COVID-19, California legislators were trying to pass a bill aimed at increasing childhood vaccination. Five years previously, someone at Disneyland had…

The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, looked at people taking immunosuppressive medications to treat chronic inflammatory diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Since a…