Human Services

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…

Last year, our social impact startup hit a milestone that eludes 96 percent of female founders: we hit one million dollars in revenue. It felt like reaching the summit of…

Big farming is both a victim of climate change and a contributor. Droughts, floods and soil degradation threaten crop yields. But agriculture produces nearly one-quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions.…

Nonprofits and for-profit businesses alike have an obligation to listen to what this generation has to say. Doing so can impact the future workforce and overall economy.

If we want to address the challenges and inequities faced by students and the ongoing needs of employers and communities, we must deliver on a concept that has gained substantial momentum in recent years: education-to-workforce pathways.

The Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF) recently released the 2022 National Organic Research Agenda (NORA). It finds that while demand for organic products is on the rise, farmers still face challenges…

The LGBTQ+ population is young and rapidly growing, possessing more than $1.4 trillion in spending power. But LGBTQ+ households are also more likely to be locked out of homeownership and its wealth-building…

Robert Thomas is now serving up wheatgrass shots at his club-turned-grocery store in Houston, Texas. After the pandemic forced Thomas to shut down the club he ran for five years,…

Hardening electric transmission systems and monitoring ocean temperatures are two key priorities.

A community garden, a jobs program, meal distribution, community clean-ups: These are the amenities and services that unhoused people and mutual aid organizations created in Los Angeles’ Echo Park after…

A new opinion piece in The New York Times argues that rural America needs immigrant labor to survive and thrive. “Rural America has a growth problem. Business and industry desperately need workers, but the…