This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If 2020 was a shock to the system for nonprofit organizations large and small, 2021 offered an opportunity for rebuilding that many nonprofits tried to embrace throughout the year. But…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At the beginning of 2021, Catalina Jaramillo had just started working as a staff writer at FactCheck.org, investigating and correcting misleading information about COVID-19 in Spanish. Immigrant communities were facing a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than a third of the nation’s 100 large cities have failed to establish overall community-wide climate goals, and just 19 of the 38 that have data available on their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Where students attend college has serious implications for both the education attainment and racial wealth gap, yet more selective, and arguably better resourced, colleges in the US are serving disproportionately…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Equitable Growth is committed to building a community of scholars working to understand whether and how inequality affects broadly shared growth and stability. To that end, we have created the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the nearly 50 years since Roe v Wade established the right to an abortion without excessive governmental restriction, the courts have repeatedly confirmed that incarcerated people retain this constitutional right. Yet…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nebraska is a reliably red state. The last time Nebraskans backed a Democrat in a presidential election was 1964. Former president Donald Trump won the state in 2016 by a double-digit…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A spending proposal in President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan would deny funding for students who choose to attend private-sector career colleges, rather than public community colleges. It’s a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The troubling enrollment losses that school districts reported last year have in many places continued this fall, as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt public education across the country, an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change could be shifting the limits of weather predictability and pushing reliable 10-day forecasts out of reach, report researchers. The limit of reliable temperature, wind, and rainfall forecasts falls…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 vaccine has been in our lives for a full year, and while it’s helped us move forward in our fight to defeat the pandemic — with just over 46% of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our hearts go out to the families and communities in the multi-state region hit by these storms. While we cannot stop severe weather, we can offer others our support in…