Global Poverty

Discussions of racism have shifted from treating it as a psychological problem regarding individual mindsets toward understanding it as a structural issue, where discrimination is born from social and legal…

What the progressive movement can learn from military strategy…

Despite a notoriously innovation-adverse environment in UN organizations overall, a growing body of success stories are changing lives and contributing to continuous organizational learning.

Learning from global peers and using the sustainable development goals as a framework for measuring progress, US cities are accelerating solutions to social problems.

A new study underscores how community-driven research can meet local needs and advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

To help solve hunger and malnutrition while also slowing climate change, some farmers could grow seaweed, a study suggests.

Investments in women farmers are critical to solving the worsening hunger crisis in Africa and around the world.

There is no question that we are in a time of divisiveness in America. Racial and economic inequality are tearing at our social fabric. That tearing will continue with great…

While working for the City of Lansing’s Department of Neighborhoods and Citizen Engagement (DNCE) back in summer 2018, my colleagues and I realized something was amiss with our Neighborhood Advisory Board Grants program. The…

Most new “free college” programs cover only the tuition still outstanding after federal aid is used up. That still often leaves low-income students with other expenses — such as housing, books and transportation — uncovered.

A growing line of research takes a closer look at income data to uncover significant differences among students whose families are considered economically disadvantaged.

Unjust fines and fees on working families, coupled by the egregious practices used to collect them, systematically strips wealth and well-being from communities.