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According to the latest figures from the American Medical Association, less than 3 percent of physicians in the United States are Hispanic. Only 3.4 percent of those are Latinas. With 12 percent of the…

As the superintendent of Anaheim Union High School District, I’d like to applaud the historic, proposed investment in education by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature. I also commend the…

Nonprofit organizations are givers: we recruit like-minded staff and volunteers who give and give until they are spent. All too often burnout leads to poor performance and high staff turnover.…

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides a refundable credit to low-wage workers at tax time, has become one of the nation’s most effective antipoverty policies. But most of…

As HR professionals dig into the accessibility aspect of diversity, equity and inclusion, potholes abound. “Accessibility is one of those terms that engenders a lot of anxiety for folks,” Kelly…

Dave Chokshi is a clinical professor of population health at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and a primary care internist at Bellevue Hospital. As commissioner of the New York City…

Much of the debate over the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the unemployment rate, but that focus understates the pandemic’s impact on the labor market. Although millions of workers have…

Rural school districts in Missouri are rapidly adopting a four-day week for classes, saying it helps them recruit badly needed teachers, reports DC Benincasa of Missouri Business Alert. Since 2010, 119 Missouri districts…

“When one door closes, another door opens.” So goes the popular adage. But if the door is a metaphor for access and opportunity, then an implicit truth of this adage…

Tomorrow is Asian American and Pacific Islander Women’s Equal Pay Day.1 The day marks the point in 2021 until which, on average, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women had to…

In the wake of COVID-19, survey data indicated that adult workers had growing skepticism about the role of education in landing a good job. It’s shown up in America’s community colleges. National enrollments…

After working in education for several years, Jerelyn Rodriguez grew incredibly frustrated with the single-minded focus many stakeholders had on college education as a tool for economic mobility. In response,…