This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. 9-7-17 + 9-19-17 The dates that hundreds were killed and countless homes, schools, and community buildings were destroyed after two devastating earthquakes struck central and southern Mexico. Within one day…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Scaling a solution is not the same as solving a problem at scale. Nearly 1 billion people around the world live with blindness or vision impairment that is correctable with…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Food literacy, the understanding that food choices affect human and planetary health, can be an important tool for building resilient individuals and communities. A combination of nutrition knowledge, culinary skill,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Although navigating school during a global pandemic presented new challenges for almost all K-12 staff nationwide, some educators, like Jeffrey Wright of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, faced an additional difficulty that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For years, a patchwork of afterschool programs in Dallas have provided care for thousands of children and reassurance to working parents their kids are in a safe place for the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To help address the many impacts of the pandemic in Nepal, The McConnell Foundation made a grant to benefit four organizations working on different fronts. Since the beginning of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As people in jail and their families struggle to stay connected during the pandemic, we’ve collected the data on the exploitative prices families are forced to pay in Wisconsin for phone calls…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nitrogen use efficiency, an indicator that describes how much fertilizer reaches a harvested crop, has decreased by 22 percent since 1961, according to new findings by an international group of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 long-haulers, even those with mild infections of the virus, experience significant decline in kidney function, according to a deep dive into federal health data. The findings add to concerns…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. President Joe Biden has called for major clean energy investments as a way to curb climate change and generate jobs. On Sept. 8, 2021, the White House released a report…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Each year, tens of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children make dangerous journeys around the globe on their own to arrive at the southern border of the United States, seeking safety. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since Asian Americans first began to immigrate to the United States almost two centuries ago, we have been framed as perpetual foreigners. Racist portrayals in film and television, references to…