Human Services

Our school-based occupational therapy labs teach job skills that take the whole student into account, writes Michele Morgan, an OT at Warren Woods Public Schools.

The research is clear: jurisdictions cannot fine and cite their way to ending unsheltered homelessness.

In 2023, there were 28 billion-dollar climate and weather disasters in the U.S. Climate change means this number is likely to stay high. Insurance companies cannot keep up with the…

As a shortage of workers pushes wages higher in the skilled trades, the financial return from a bachelor’s degree is softening, even as the price, and the average debt into which it plunges students, remain high.

A review of recently published research findings and trends on economic mobility for Black Americans.

“While we’ve seen some modest improvement in American diets in the last two decades, those improvements are not reaching everyone…”…

Every young person deserves the dignity and security of stable housing, and this is especially true for youth and young adults formerly in foster care.No young person should transition out of foster care without a plan for housing and […]…

Black youth show up in emergency rooms with gunshot wounds or other violent injuries at an alarming and disproportionate rate in the United States. Some hospitals have violence interventions that…

A new report by IPES-Food highlights global land acquisitions squeezing out small farmers and threatening sustainable agriculture.

The global housing crisis is a staggering issue, affecting 1.6 billion people who live without adequate housing. This crisis stifles the potential of millions of families, particularly women and children, across the…

Today, white households at the median hold six times the wealth of Black households, five times the wealth of Hispanic households, and more than 10 times the wealth of Native…

Despite important gains in the formal education of girls in the last decade and half, women in India are conspicuously missing from the workforce. The country achieved universal girls’ enrollment in primary…