As a result of discriminatory institutionalized policies and practices, children of color are less likely to be on track for healthy development than their white peers, a report from the Urban Institute finds. Based on data from the Social Genome Model — which identifies developmental and social mobility patterns from birth through ages 5, 8,...

The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout have disproportionately impacted women and girls, especially those of color, and an equitable recovery will require significant investments in improving access to child care, health care, and affordable housing, as well as a commitment to closing gender and racial wage gaps and preventing...

Healthcare providers in California are seeing rising levels of weariness and frustration as the COVID-19 pandemic enters its second year, a report from the California Health Care Foundation finds. Based on a survey of more than twelve hundred healthcare workers conducted in January, the report, COVID-19 Tracking Poll, February 2021: Views from...

While the educational experience for most students in the U.S. in the fall of 2020 was better than their experience during the spring term, disparities in learning challenges remained, a survey by YouthTruth Student Survey finds. Based on responses from nearly twenty-nine thousand upper-elementary and secondary students, the report, Students...

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of independent contractors, including many artists, without access to social insurance programs and worker protections, a report from the Urban Institute finds. Commissioned by the Center for Cultural Innovation, with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the report, Arts...

About one in three Native Americans and one in five Pacific Islanders in California live in neighborhoods considered "highly vulnerable" to adverse health outcomes, a report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research finds. Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the report, Vulnerability Indicators and At-Risk Smaller Populations in...

While the official poverty rate in South Carolina was 16 percent in 2018 — slightly above the national average of 14.1 percent — poverty in the state is shaped by complex, multiple factors that collectively impact nearly every resident, a research brief from the Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina, in partnership with the Rural...

As nations work to "build back better" in the wake of COVID-19, the education sector has an opportunity to help address the inequities highlighted by the pandemic and advance climate action, a report from the Brookings Institution argues. Funded by the Malala Fund, the report, A new green learning agenda: Approaches to quality education for...

Students who regularly attend high-quality voluntary summer learning programs experience both short- and long-term benefits in language arts and math, a report commissioned from RAND Corporation by the Wallace Foundation finds. Based on student data from five urban school districts, the study, Every Summer Counts: A Longitudinal Analysis of...

Nearly seven in ten (69 percent) mayors believe that protests against police violence and racial injustice during the summer of 2020 were drivers of positive change in their cities, a report from the Initiative on Cities at Boston University finds. Funded by Citi Community Development and the Rockefeller Foundation and based on responses...

A report from the Joyce Foundation identifies new avenues of inquiry for research on reducing gun deaths and injuries in the United States. The report, The Next 100 Questions: A Research Agenda for Ending Gun Violence (53 pages, PDF), outlines key questions in ten dimensions of gun violence: firearm suicides, community-based gun violence,...

Rural Americans are more hesitant than their urban and suburban counterparts to be vaccinated against COVID-19, an issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds. Based on the KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor survey, the brief, Vaccine Hesitancy in Rural America, found that only 31 percent of respondents living in rural areas said they...

Although U.S. foundations are expanding their commitments in response to inequities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the movement for racial justice, they have yet to embrace intersectional approaches, a report from TCC Group finds. Based on interviews with place-based funders and philanthropy-serving organizations, the report,...

While arts and culture have an important role to play in building a more equitable and democratic economy, the community development field is fragmented and lacks the local, regional, and federal infrastructure and intermediaries needed to support community wealth-building entities, a report from ArtPlace America finds. Based on a field scan and...