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I had only been in jail a couple of weeks before I got into an altercation with another inmate and they took us both to the SHU — that’s the…

Seven of the United Kingdom’s 10 wettest years on record have occurred since 1998. Its wettest winter in history came in 2013, and the next wettest in 2015. In a…

Shuranda Williams spent more than a year in the county jail here, waiting to talk to someone about fighting the murder charge she faces. The police have said she was…

Middle-school aged children should limit their recreational screen time to no more than one hour daily on school days and four hours a day on weekends, researchers say. A new…

Even before the pandemic, fifty million Americans – disproportionally workers with low wages, women, and workers of color – did not have access to the tools they need to build…

In a recent Food Tank interview, Seventh Generation’s Martin Wolf argues that a systems change is needed to make the private sector more sustainable. Founded in 1988, Seventh Generation is…

Whatever you’ve heard about student absenteeism during the pandemic, it’s likely worse than you thought. Not only are more students missing school, but they’re missing far more days than in…

All sorts of donors responded in all sorts of ways to the many crises of 2020. Because next gen donors — those under 50 with an historic capacity to fund…

People I meet always want to know how I survived the systems. Until recently, it was a question I dreaded to be asked. I wanted to avoid being retraumatized, looked…

Nonprofits large and small must strategically marshal resources to ensure that they have staff, resources and capacity to accomplish their goals. Such challenges are magnified when nonprofits take on systems…

Using job listing and applicant data collected in 2015 by Snagajob, researchers cross-referenced available jobs posted in 16 metro areas with the number of applicants who lived within a “reasonable…

Melissa Troutman, who co-founded a local muckraking publication and also works for the environmental nonprofit Earthworks, knew that fracking waste could be radioactive and toxic, so she filed a complaint with…