This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new BJS report shows that U.S. jails reduced their populations by 25% in the first few months of the pandemic. But even then, the U.S. was still putting more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed hardship on millions of vulnerable Americans through unemployment and reduced work hours. And this has increased food insecurity across the nation. There is no official…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Philanthropy is in the business of preventing and alleviating disasters. And plenty of those need addressing right now. A global pandemic has killed more than 120,000 Americans. The accelerating climate…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Overdoses increased some 20 percent in the United States between June 2019 and June 2020, to more than 81,000, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s the most fatal overdoses…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Just 51% of Americans expressed a clear willingness to take the COVID-19 vaccine compared to 71% of residents in the United Kingdom, according to a study conducted during the first…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Increases in the use of telehealth during the coronavirus pandemic among people with private insurance has occurred mostly among those who are more affluent and those who live in metropolitan…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. EU states received a 60 per cent increase in emergency calls about intimate partner violence during the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020. The alarming trend resulted from the emotional…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Once a primary means of communication, audio-only telephone calls seem increasingly obsolete to millions of Americans who text with their friends and Zoom with their colleagues. However, the COVID-19 pandemic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine has been accompanied by reports of line-jumping as people farther down the list attempt to get ahead of those deemed higher priority. In late…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. NCRP’s Movement Investment Project initiative has been committed to hearing the experiences of Black, Indigenous people of color-led organizing in the reproductive access space. And while NCRP has been vocal and responsive to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly 12 million women in poorer countries lost access to contraception in the pandemic, leading to 1.4 million unplanned pregnancies, the United Nations said on Thursday. Estimates by the UN…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New research is shedding light on how dementia can increase people’s risk for developing COVID-19, particularly among two groups: African Americans and people with vascular dementia. The headline findings of…