Democracy

The pandemic has taken a toll on many families’ economic security. Some families with low incomes lost employment or work hours, and families with children experienced heightened food insecurity and struggled to pay for…

A few months before the pandemic began, the two of us met for the first time at a Panera Bread cafe in Raleigh, N.C., to discuss how our new nonprofit…

The pandemic of 2020 has reignited a national conversation about inequality, having laid bare the chasm in health and well-being that groups of different racial, ethnic, geographic, or economic backgrounds…

The past several years have seen dramatic growth in social movements demonstrating their dissent through public mass mobilization and acts of civil disobedience, from Black Lives Matter and Fridays for…

Addressing place names in national parks could be a starting point for reckoning with the country’s history of dispossessing Indigenous nations from their lands. The new paper in the journal People…

Nearly a decade of high crop prices and record farm subsidies from taxpayers isn’t necessarily good news for rural America, says The Economist, a London-based global magazine that still calls itself a newspaper.…

The Independent Restaurant Coalition (IRC) is fighting to help independent bars and restaurants across the United States stay open. In March 2020, the IRC formed to respond to the needs…

During a recent event hosted by New York University Steinhardt and Food Tank, food advocates and policymakers discussed the challenges and opportunities New Yorkers face in building a nourishing, equitable,…

Late last year, the Justice Department joined the growing list of agencies to discover that algorithms don’t heed good intentions. An algorithm known as PATTERN placed tens of thousands of…

More than a month into the Russian invasion, Ukrainian students in the U.S. and others in American academia with strong ties to the besieged country drift daily between hope and…

Last year, New York joined a handful of other states, including California, Minnesota, Hawaii, Washington, and Maryland in granting overtime pay to farm workers. Yet as the law took effect on…

Colorado lawmakers unveiled legislation Tuesday aimed at strengthening the school-to-career pipeline as industries across the state continue to face workforce shortages as they recover from the pandemic’s negative economic effects.…