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US cities are starting to reform laws that required developers to provide minimum amounts of parking. But there’s more they can do to loosen the auto’s grip on downtowns.

Over the last decade, many innovative organizations have changed their approach to human resources, moving away from treating employees like risks to be managed and toward viewing talent as an…

The U.S. labor market is on track to hit a milestone this month or next: It will have recovered all of the jobs lost in the pandemic recession. That is…

Callers to 911 in rural areas know they will have to wait longer than their city counterparts, but how much longer? And how long do you have…

We undertook this learning journey in India by engaging with partners and experts in the field to truly understand the threat the climate crises poses to the people we serve,…

As Black students confront dire mental health threats, one school district is encouraging them to share their struggles and lend support to their peers.

The bad news: This extreme heat is probably going to stick around for a couple more years.

Commonwealth Fund graph from Health Policy Survey data Over a third of rural Americans will skip needed health care because they can’t affo…

How much does human behavior influence climate change? Can it be changed, and how? In June, climate change experts and behavioral scientists came together to answer these important questions.

Increasing the number of older people with both Medicaid and Medicare would mean fewer of them would be forced to skimp on the care and treatment they need.

The fact that much of rural America is a “child care desert” has far-reaching implications for the families, children and care providers directly affected—but also for regional and national economic health and wellbeing.

Discussions of racism have shifted from treating it as a psychological problem regarding individual mindsets toward understanding it as a structural issue, where discrimination is born from social and legal…