Human Services

Across the country, Black male educators make up just 2% of teachers. In the Los Angeles Unified school district, just 8.3% of teachers are Black compared to 30.6% White and…

Tom Kola was five years old when he realised he was a boy. But it took more than two decades and a move halfway across the world before he would…

As we consider the potential implications of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, one open question is how states will enforce the abortion bans that are expected in at least…

School-related gender-based violence affects millions of children and adolescents worldwide and seriously undermines quality, equitable education for all. To the extent that research exists on the topic, it has concentrated…

There have been more than 600 mass shootings in the United States so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Mass shootings and school shootings may spark feelings of…

We’ve all seen the statistical maps revealing deep inequities across the geographies of most American cities and towns. There are oases of privilege and opportunity. And there are neighborhoods that…

Children and teens who survive a firearm injury have a high rate of developing new mental health diagnoses in the year afterward, even compared with kids who suffered injuries in…

Child brides being beaten by their husbands will no longer be included in India’s biggest survey of domestic violence — potentially hiding the problem and making it even harder for…

Formal micro lenders are playing an increasingly important financing role in remote and rural areas where banks have limited reach or are unwilling to lend to the poor, industry analysts…

Biomedical innovation reached a new era during the COVID-19 pandemic as drug development went into overdrive. But the ways that brand companies license their patented drugs grant them market monopoly,…

The National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers lost more than 59,000 working members combined during the 2021-22 school year, according to U.S. Department of Labor disclosure reports.…