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Among the COVID-19 pandemic’s most pernicious aftershocks is its impact on student mental health. Isolated at home, disconnected from friends and suffering trauma from family members’ job losses or pandemic-related deaths,…

It’s not a question of if insurance will become unavailable or unaffordable in areas at high risk of wildfires, hurricanes and other damage – it’s a question of when. A disaster risk expert explains.

Drug policy often comprises efforts to reduce the supply of drugs, to provide health and social services to addicted individuals, and to prevent the development of addiction in the first…

Lonely older adults are more likely to live shorter lives than their peers and spend less of their remaining life in good health or being active, according to a new…

Ride-sharing platforms outperform taxis in coping with urban emergencies, largely due to the benefits of technology, a new study shows.

A nationwide coalition of city leaders and advocacy groups are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to investigate the practice of “digital redlining,” which they said has resulted in a gaping…

America’s homeless response system has been called “the emergency room of society,” conjuring images of a space where the focus is on urgent intervention—finding shelter or managing encampments—rather than trying…

The need for increased child care access and quality have never been more important, and the child care industry has never been more fragile. The Biden administration’s signature domestic bill,…

Editor’s Note: This paper is part of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, which is a partnership between the Economic Studies Program at Brookings and the USC Schaeffer C……

Efforts to save water because of a drought can disproportionately affect low-income families, researchers report.

Sara Grossman: Hello and welcome to this episode of Who Belongs? Produced by UC Berkeley’s Haas Institute, Who Belongs? examines issues of inclusion and exclusion in our society through a…

One evening last September, Gavin Yamey, professor of global health at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, dined indoors and tweeted a selfie of himself and his two table mates—Chris Beyrer,…