This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Health disparities along racial and socioeconomic lines are a persistent challenge for policymakers and researchers looking to improve health outcomes. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and at least temporarily exacerbated these patterns:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public spaces centered on community engagement and the needs, history, and issues relevant to residents were best able to adapt and thrive during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report from the John…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been more than 492,000 documented cases of COVID-19 among inmates and staff in US prisons, jails, and detention centers, according to the COVID…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Oftentimes phrases such as “racial equity journey” and “doing the work” are paired together in conversations devoted to issues of equity. But what exactly does the journey look like? What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At 3:30 in the afternoon on the first day of Texas’ winter freeze in February, the temperature plummeted to 20 degrees F inside Roxann Swoyer’s manufactured home — colloquially known as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Through a year of pandemic shutdowns and protests, Americans have rediscovered their public spaces. Homebound city dwellers sought havens in parks, plazas and reclaimed streets. Many of these places also…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. City Lab published a report ranking the least livable cities for Black women. In addition to Pittsburgh, the top five were Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee, and Augusta. Such largely Midwest areas once…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are several reasons for giving students more voice in their own education. Having more choice allows a student to feel more engaged in the educational process. It also makes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Having mutually supportive relationships is great. It makes us all feel grounded and connected, and in a world that’s more and more isolating, strengthening the bonds among one another is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the United States, environmental giving comprises just 3% of total philanthropy (Giving USA). And it’s been stuck at this paltry amount of total charitable giving for more than a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The need for new K-12 classroom technology has never been greater. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many schools are now using a hybrid classroom model, with some students attending…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In 2014, five years after the Great Recession ended, more than half of American adults were facing serious financial hardship: 58 percent struggled to cover expenses and pay bills, and 45 percent…