This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The perfect storm erupted on Doug Rainforth’s birthday. Droughts in years prior had dried out the soil in Fairmont, Minnesota, where Rainforth manages the city’s water treatment plant. Rainforth suspects the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. From the polluted groundwater in California to the toxic tap water in Flint, barriers to safe water access are everywhere. But the true scale of the issue is invisible, as…
Mahshid Abir, Senior Physician Policy Researcher: Based on my work as a frontline emergency physician over a decade now, I knew that critical care at baseline was a resource that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Scientists have known for decades that climate change makes wildfires more common, larger, and more intense. Now an international team of scientists has demonstrated a new connection between fires and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If Americans are to embrace apprenticeships, I believe coveted Silicon Valley companies, financial institutions, hospitals, and law firms must hire graduates who train outside of full-time academic programs. Indeed, the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For decades, price, quality, and convenience have been the principal drivers of consumer purchasing decisions. Today, those drivers are competing with another important motivator: health. But while some companies like…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the last year, our public interest technology team at New America interviewed people working in and around governments across the country. The same resonant themes emerged again and again.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Homeownership is often viewed as the entree to the American dream and the gateway to intergenerational wealth. However, this pathway is often less achievable for Black Americans who post a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the inception of trauma-informed care in the medical field in the late 1980s , the practice has evolved and permeated peripheral fields, including behavioral health, advocacy, and, in the past 20 years,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The city of Chicago announced a first-of-its-kind legal challenge against food delivery platforms DoorDash and Grubhub on Friday, accusing the companies of engaging in a host of unfair business practices…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black Americans die at higher rates than White Americans at nearly every age. In 2019, the most recent year with available mortality data, there were over 62,000 such earlier deaths…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Awelcome development as the labor market has continued to recover since spring 2020 has been a narrowing of the gaps in unemployment rates between Black and Hispanic men and white…