This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Deadly car crashes involving both cannabis and alcohol consumption have more than doubled in the United States in the past two decades, as have car crash deaths involving just cannabis,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even before the pandemic, many students — especially those from historically underserved groups — were leaving high school unprepared for the educational demands of good jobs and too few were…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Washington Center for Equitable Growth has long prioritized the generation of new research on the economic effects of paid family and medical leave in the United States. This line…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Students in majority-Black schools are now a full 12 months behind those in mostly white schools, widening the achievement gap by a third, according to a new analysis by McKinsey & Co.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every morning in New Bedford, MA, seafood workers clock in before dawn to plants that line the waterfront, donning gloves and plastic gowns over double layers of sweaters to keep…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Historically, King County Council Chair Claudia Balducci said, transit funding was deliberately distributed along geographic lines, weighted toward Seattle’s suburbs to encourage commuters to stay out of their cars. Subsequent service…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) recently published a report, Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste, assessing the United States’ contribution to plastic production…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On Feb. 29, 2020, seven men walked into the education building at Everglades Correctional Institution (ECI) as inmates. Three hours later, after passing a taxing Florida Department of Environmental Protection…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tens of thousands of California’s guest farmworkers and U.S. farmworkers will see pay increases in 2022, which advocates say comes thanks to their lawsuit to stop a Trump-era wage freeze.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As another year of extreme weather disasters draws to a close, a new report from the World Inequality Lab shows how disproportionately culpable the world’s richest people and nations are for climate pollution. “Global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Much of the national focus around electrification has centered on the transportation sector and the push toward electric vehicles. But at the local level, a growing number of cities have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rural communities throughout the United States are vibrant places with great people, rich culture and heritage, and deep social ties. But many rural communities have been buffeted by the increasing…