Sex Trafficking Survivor Files Lawsuit Against Red Roof Inns
On November 14, 2022, Benoit Law Firm, PLLC, joined by Levin Papantonio Rafferty (LPR), filed a lawsuit against Red Roof...
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Social Work with Refugees
Sara Kauffman's presentation was designed to give helpful information to helping professionals who may encounter refugees in their practice...
How White Consumers Helped Drive Discrimination by Businesses
A new study provides the best evidence to date that prove the preferences of white consumers helped drive private businesses...
In A New World, Social Work Leads the Way
How Cal State Northridge is doing its part. The pandemic, if nothing else, exacerbated the unequal distribution of resources in...
Poverty, Racism and the Public Health Crisis in America
Although extreme poverty in the United States is low by global standards, the U.S. has the worst index of health...
How American Cities Can Promote Urban Agriculture
In his original plan for the city of Philadelphia, William Penn declared that every home should have ample space “for...
The Covid Pandemic Increased Vulnerability to Forced Labor in Global Supply Chains
Comprehensive evidence points to increased vulnerability of workers to forced labor in global supply chains during the Covid-19 pandemic, an...
How Environmental Policies Can Promote Economic Growth
The Trump administration had been working hard to roll back the nation’s environmental regulations on the grounds that they are...
The Digital Divide is a Human Rights Issue
The COVID-19 pandemic shed a glaring light on the important role that technology and access to high-speed internet play our...
What Do You Know About Disability Cultural Competence?
Recently, I had the opportunity to give a webinar on disability cultural competence to social service workers, but was met...
Air Pollution Disproportionally Affects People of Color, Lower-Income Residents in DC
The rates of death and health burdens associated with air pollution are borne unequally and inequitably by people of color...
What the U.S. Government Can Do to Address Energy Insecurity
By Sanya Carley and David M. Konisky Energy insecurity—defined as the inability to pay one’s energy bill or avoid utility disconnection—is a...
Study Casts Doubt on Theory That Women Aren’t as Competitive as Men
As researchers investigate reasons for America's persistent gender wage gap, one possible explanation that has emerged in roughly the last...
New Analysis: More U.S. Adults Identify as Disabled; Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities Persist
A new analysis led by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers finds that the number of U.S. adults who report they have...
The Partisan Gap Among Women in Elective Office in 2020 and Beyond
The 2020 elections saw robust gains for Republican women in state legislatures and Congress. Republican women increased their numbers from...
Let’s End the Shame That Silences Victims of Domestic Violence
October was Domestic Violence Awareness Month, but let’s make it our mission year-round to end the one important thing that,...
Why America Needs More African American Teachers – and How to Recruit and Retain Them
Calls to increase the number of teachers of color, specifically African American teachers, have intensified over the past decade. Educators...
Why Growing Urban Inequality is as Much About White Affluence as Minority Poverty
American cities have long been unequal places – with big class and racial gaps that often overlap. Residents of particular...
Police Training Needs Urgent Reforms, New Report from American University Reveals
The instructional models that are used to train police officers across the U.S. at the academy, in-service, mid-rank, and leadership...
How Inequality and Politics Influence Government Responses to Natural Disasters
By Fernando Tormos, Gustavo García-López, and Mary Angelica Painter After a hurricane strikes, governments and electric utility companies go to...
