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And there isn’t much the court can do to enforce it, the Supreme Court justice said in a hearing focused on the state’s public defense woes.

Women in leadership, strategic advocacy, helped pave the way for federally-funded child care in Canada…

Latinas are more likely to be child care providers and to have children in the home who need care. The end of federal funds could hit them hard.

Lack of information, poor transit access, and plain old boredom keep people away from public cooling facilities.

Governments around the world have become increasingly interested in fostering the social economy in order to address pressing social problems. One of the ways to do that is through their…

One way to help veterans who are homeless is to advocate for more affordable housing, says Thomas Byrne. The signs dot highway bridges and town halls, celebrating the return of…

Tool libraries have the potential to simultaneously decrease material usage and increase access to material goods, both of which are needed if we are to create a more equitable and ecological society.

“How do we revive the habit of reading?” is a phrase you often hear. But this question echoes an inherently false narrative—one that supposes the existence of a habit shared…

In a series of videos from JP Morgan Chase on how the bank’s impact investments are helping BIPOC small businesses grow, George Ashton, president of LISC Fund Management, and Sonja Dean, program officer at LISC Kalamazoo, describe their motivation for connecting entrepreneurs of color with the…

How do you build community ownership? Childspace’s Mindy Barbacoff (Philadelphia), Dudley Street’s Minnie McMahon (Boston), and Co-op Dayton’s Amaha Sellassie share the valuable lessons they’ve learned.

A pandemic is a terrible time to lose health insurance coverage. Yet, for a segment of the 23 million workers who suddenly lost jobs in spring of 2020, that was a fear-inducing possibility.…

A large study comparing Vietnam War-era military veterans who became eligible for disability compensation with ineligible veterans found that eligibility for compensation was associated with substantial reductions in hospitalizations—an important…