Martin Luther King Jr. said, “America is going to hell if we don’t use her vast resources to end poverty and make it possible for all God’s children to have the basic necessities of life.” Today, 150 years after the end...
On Tuesday, the city council of Tacoma, WA passed paid sick leave on an eight-to-one vote. The leave is modest, requiring businesses to offer just three paid days off for illness a year, but it will rise to five days in the employee’s...
T his is a story of how, in six short years, a relatively small group of people inspired, motivated, and induced a community to turn the approach to helping children and adults who experience domestic violence, mental illness, substance abuse,...
The Clinton Foundation on Monday announced that it had negotiated a lower price for an emergency treatment that can prevent overdoses with a company that makes it. The soaring cost of the treatment has constrained its widespread use by municipalities...
Sarah Spitz arrived at Emory University in 2009 eager to find out what the next four years had in store. But as the readings piled up and her first test approached, the self-proclaimed perfectionist couldn’t handle the pressure. Spitz...
This story begins an occasional series about individuals who don't have much money or power but do have a big impact on their communities. Sometimes, the people you'd least expect are those who do the most. People like Tony Simmons, a homeless...
The history goes something like this: White families left inner cities in droves during the white-flight era of the 1950s and 60s. Now they are returning to—have returned to—the metro centers that their grandparents once called...
Deadline for submission of abstracts for the 7th International Attachment Conference to be held August 6-8, 2015, at the New School University Center in New York City, NY, is this Saturday, January 31, 2015. Speakers for the conference include...
Representatives from local governments, tribal governments, businesses, and community organizations gathered Monday to discuss ways to work together. Organizers of the Mat-Su Collective Impact Event said the main focus was to find ways to...
How confident can we be that police departments do a fair and adequate job of investigating deadly encounters between their officers and the public? How confident can we be that district attorneys and grand juries act impartially when...
As we've learned since the most recent economic crisis, the inability of Americans to pick up and move for new jobs or new housing often comes hand in hand with an inability to climb up the socio-economic ladder. Now new research finds that...
Early-childhood development is the rare issue that unites liberals and conservatives, nearly all of whom agree that the first few years of a child's life are a time of crucial social and intellectual formation. Yet policymakers and educators rarely...
Kids' math and reading skills when they start kindergarten can vary greatly based on their social and economic status, according to a new study. “We knew economic circumstances have an impact on early child development, but it was...
Laws intended to protect children from abuse and neglect are not being properly enforced, and the federal government is to blame. That's according to a study by the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law,...
By day, Andrea Letamendi was a model doctoral student in clinical psychology at the University of California, San Diego, who kept her head down while concentrating on her research on post-traumatic stress in Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans....