This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Long before the COVID-19 pandemic made supply chain snags a topic of dinner table conversation, the U.S. was already struggling with broken production systems in a key industry: housing. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Research suggests as many as 70 percent of justice-involved youth have a diagnosable mental health disorder, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, behavior problems, anxiety disorders, and depressive disorders. Entering juvenile carceral…
Extreme heat is already the deadliest climate and weather-related hazard in the United States and cities are getting hotter because of climate change and the urban heat island effect. Communities…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black students who attend historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are more satisfied with their college experiences than Black students who attend other types of postsecondary institutions, a new Urban Institute…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Within my first couple weeks of starting college, my Junior Advisor (Williams College’s student equivalent of a dorm parent) gathered a dozen of my “entry” mates for our Welcoming Williams…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With hate and violence targeting faith communities and houses of worship at alarming rates across the United States, often mayors and elected officials are those who stand alongside first responders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Discussions of the growing plastic waste problem often focus on reducing the volume of single-use plastic packaging items such as bags, bottles, tubs, and films. But more waste comes from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Enrollment and attendance in pre-K — especially among Black and Latino preschoolers — improves when programs operate for a full school day instead of a few hours in the morning…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For two years now, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated almost every structural inequity in Indian Country. Food insecurity is high on that list. Like other inequities, it’s an intergenerational product…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The big idea Low-income parents who live in states that expanded their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act are 4.7% more likely to say they are in good health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This summer has seen more fires, more heat, more storms — all of it making life increasingly untenable in larger areas of the nation. Already, droughts regularly threaten food crops…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many researchers have looked at nitrogen pollution hotspots around the country. But a new first-of-its-kind, multi-year study from the University of Vermont looks at areas where nitrogen pollution reduction is…