This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There have been tens of thousands of COVID-19 cases and hundreds of deaths reported among U.S. farmworkers and meat plant workers. Because there isn’t an official tracking system in place, these…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mary Chris Barth knows how important it is to control the soil in the panhandle of Oklahoma. She’s the child of parents that grew up in the Dust Bowl. When…
Our economy doesn’t just need more jobs, it needs better jobs. The problem of eroding job quality long precedes, and now greatly exacerbates, our current extraordinary challenges of job and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Numerous companies have set 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging goals such as Colgate-Palmolive and Kellogg. Virtually all these companies, though, are not tracking whether their packaging is actually recycled and what…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a typical recession in the US economy, most job losses are permanent. Only a small percentage are considered temporary, where a worker can reasonably expect to be called back.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The study involved three experimental organic farming systems on which crops rotated with cattle. Researchers found no traces of common strains of E. coli or salmonella on the meat produced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Racism is fundamental to the United States’ inception: our founding as a nation and economy depended on it. Chattel slavery and the genocide of Indigenous people supplied the labor and…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Raquan Wedderburn & Karen Biddle Andres outline trends in American student debt, and highlight the relationship between generational wealth and widening racial divides in debt burdens.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As COVID-19 continues to spread across the U.S. landscape, millions of frontline grocery and retail workers remain exposed to the virus, but without extra compensation for the risks they face.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the arts and culture sector in the US, causing millions of job losses and billions of dollars in lost sales. For months, arts workers—artists and workers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our research found that they account for two out of every five dollars spent on safety net services across a sample of six representative US cities. And while some funders,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In early 2020, NCRP began exploring philanthropy’s investment in the reproductive justice movement and those providing services on the frontlines. A new year and a new presidential administration might signal…