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Immigrant women are feeling the brunt of the negative economic and social impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic — and it may not get better. The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited public…

For low-income families who cannot afford reliable internet service for remote schooling, the city should offer subsidies, said New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer. Families would get “internet passports” they…

Two large recent studies show that people hospitalized for COVID-19 in March were more than three times as likely to die as people hospitalized for COVID–19 in August. The first…

Mainstream media is less likely to cover Black homicide victims and less likely to portray them as complex human beings, a new study shows. When Raymond Griffin was shot and…

While capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty worldwide, the wealth gap in the United States continues to climb, with stark disparities across the economic spectrum. Most recently, the COVID-19…

Learning gains during the 2019-20 school year are expected to be significantly lower than typical years due to the “COVID slide,” according to a report from NWEA published in Sage Journals. The research predicts…

Fay Twersky, vice president at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, recently launched The Listening Post, a monthly note dedicated to lifting up exceptional ideas, voices, and questions that can…

One of the fundamental drivers of the environmental justice movement is that low-income communities and communities of color are often at the forefront of environmental harm, since they are more…

The #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements have forced Hollywood and other artists and filmmakers to rethink their subject matter and casting practices. However, despite an increased sensitivity to gender…

The Everglades are a vast network of subtropical freshwater wetland and estuarine ecosystems that once spanned the length and breadth of south Florida. Fifty years of dredging and diking, starting…

This entails recruiting committed and resourceful volunteer board members, organizing the first board meeting, and, most importantly, guiding the new board on its roles and responsibilities, which includes fine-tuning the mission, setting…

As communities across the nation continue to deal with the economic impacts of COVID-19, leaders are looking at immediate ways to keep families afloat, from extended unemployment benefits to stopping…