This paper finds that decreases in education spending affect the gender gap in time spent in child care, with women allocating more time weekly.
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People with disabilities face higher levels of food insecurity, reforms to SNAP can help increase access to nutritious food.
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Personalized education was already big pre-pandemic, but homeschooling and digital instruction made more parents and teachers embrace the idea. With a shortage of human teachers, many schools jumped on the…
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When the board of a foundation dedicated to innovation in healthcare delivery asked, “What could we achieve with advocacy?”, the question changed the entire trajectory of its philanthropy. Executive Director…
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As nightstand “To Be Read” piles grow and donation boxes expand, readers are consuming more and more books each year. At the same time, the publishing industry still faces a looming…
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Digital technologies have dazzled but not delivered the expected dividend in higher aggregate productivity growth. Inequality has been rising. The COVID-19 pandemic can reinforce these dynamics as it accelerates digital…
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Listening to community members and people with field experience is an essential practice of funders who make outsized impact. Listening to the community revealed to the Tzedek Social Justice Fund in Asheville,…
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To improve Black women’s economic well-being, policymakers will need to address systemic racial and gender disparities in education, employment, housing, and health care.
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The Prison Policy Initiative Research Library was updated with a link to Advancing Transgender Justice: Illuminating Trans Lives Behind and Beyond Bars by Vera Institute of Justice and Black and Pink National
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The pandemic has proved in the starkest of terms the importance of childcare and preschool programs. Working parents have overnight found their childcare upended as capacity and hours shrunk or…
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America’s staggering economic inequality, particularly impacting people of color, and the financial instability of most individuals and families in the United States, show that our society is not on a sustainable…
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Climate disclosure rules are meant to help investors understand their risks, but they come with costs for companies, as a finance scholar explains.