Human Services

In the job market, who you know can matter even more than what you know. But are schools helping students to develop networks and use them to advance their career goals?

The Biden Administration is at the point of releasing a final rule articulating the obligation of communities to “affirmatively further fair housing,” an important yet unrealized aspect of the Fair…

Like many people making their weekly trip to the grocery store, I do my best to buy “responsible” products that have positive environmental impact and that support the farmers and…

In Memphis, a $25 million project to restore the historic Clayborn Temple is about more than historic preservation. It is about building the community’s future.

Four recent catastrophic building collapses and a near miss are raising concerns about the state of America’s aging buildings and questions about who, if anyone, is checking their safety. Many…

Even through the pandemic, poverty has fallen by 27 percentage points since 1980, according to new research.

Improving the world through disruptive innovation.

You live in an apartment that needs repairs, but can barely afford to make rent even though you work two jobs. Your landlord just told you rents are going up…

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Two of the most influential women in the world just came together to talk about the importance of education with a teen girl from Kolkata, India. Teen Vogue facilitated a conversation between…

If used effectively, low-cost federal loans and no-cost land transfers of federal assets can enable local leaders to prioritize affordable housing projects and increase transit ridership.

As mobile home owners fight rising housing costs, some of them have hit upon a solution that also helps in the fight against climate change: banding together and buying the…