A network of three Potawatomi-run clinics in western Michigan provides holistic health and cultural supports to members of 15 American Indian nations, demonstrating how a community-based approach can successfully address the social determinants of health.
The San Francisco board of supervisors sees an eldercare crisis headed right at the city and they are not alone.
Under a new policy approved unanimously this week by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, as many as 40,000 workers at New York City airports will earn a $19 hourly wage by 2023.
The notion of cultural justice has as a core tenet language reclamation and revitalization. This newswire has many implications for other fields of work.
One of the most entrenched restrictions on voting rights is limits on citizens who are imprisoned or who have prison records. It’s no coincidence that this serves to limit voting rights among black people at the same time. Fortunately, work is being done to roll back these restrictions, including in Florida.
“That neurotransmitter encodes memories into the hippocampus, so that trauma-related experience is locked there, so other memories just drift.” This is how Dr. Ford described why she was so certain of her memories of the sexual assault she claims occurred at Brett Kavanaugh’s hands. That memory drove her to action on behalf of all of us, so let’s take a page from her book and return the favor.
A study finds that US schools employ more cops than social workers. But behind that comparison lies a deeper problem—namely, that the education of children, especially children of color, is viewed through a prism of control rather than child development.
While fraud occurs in all kinds of nonprofits, some of the variables can be deadly to the nonprofit involved. Here are some measures those most at risk can take.
Students offered the “golden ticket” of a full-ride scholarship were abruptly informed that a mistake had been made (so sorry) and they were on their own, but where was UT’s real accountability in all of this?
While the housing bill submitted by Senator Elizabeth Warren is not likely to be seriously considered anytime soon, the 10-year, $500-billion plan does set forth the most ambitious federal housing legislation to be seen in Congress for decades.
The tired and ineffective strategy of imposing work requirements on poor people, most of whom are already working, is more about the pernicious narrative it supports than results. A similar program was stopped by a federal judge in Kentucky, because it did not consider the healthcare implications for those involved.
Defenders of democracy in Hungary take their case to the European Union’s high court even as freedom of the press at home is waning.