This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Digital systems like mobile phones and networked computers make it ever easier to ask for money and to give it – possibly even too easy, as the Scrooge-like feeling I…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of child care for families with young children, but it has also exposed the child care crisis that existed long before March 2020. Early childhood…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea States’ financial investments in public benefit programs for low-income families are associated with less child abuse…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On Sunday Oct. 28, 2018 — one day after the deadliest day in American Jewish history — I mourned with members of Congregation Dor Hadash. The Pittsburgh Reconstructionist congregation met…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In February 2017, when Keia Blount was preparing to be released after serving a five-year prison term at the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women, she had no idea where…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Americans are quitting their jobs in record numbers. This phenomenon has been dubbed the Great Resignation and created significant shortages of workers for businesses. To understand and address this issue, attention might…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hoping to step up the federal government’s response to long-standing water issues facing Native American communities, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released an “action plan” earlier this month that will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A look at 48,000 conventional monuments in the United States reveals trends in who or what gets memorialized with a statue and who or what does not. In October 2021,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Arc of the United States was founded seventy years ago by families like mine who wanted their loved ones with intellectual and developmental disabilities included in every aspect of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With today’s news that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) encountered migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border without authorization 1.66 million times in fiscal year (FY) 2021 (a number that rises…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you need to treat anxiety in the future, odds are the treatment won’t just be therapy, but also an algorithm. Across the mental-health industry, companies are rapidly building solutions for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The internet has revolutionized the way people get news and information. In journalism, the old ways of raising revenue no longer work, and research shows local news is suffering the most. There…