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Where are the homeless children? This struggling city isn’t finding them
The ‘City of Brotherly Love’ has not embraced its homeless students. Are inadequate state funding and loopholes in federal law to blame?
‘If you don’t count us, we don’t count’: the effort to queer the census
With billions of dollars in federal funding on the line, a representative of the National LGBTQ Task Force discusses why it’s important for the census to accurately count queer Americans.
Taking the highway to right wrongs of the past in urban areas
The country’s highway building boom divided urban neighborhoods and targeted communities of color. A new effort aims to help heal those impacts.
In a historic Black business district, ‘death by a thousand cuts’
A tax cut in Mississippi brings fears of revenue loss and serves as a reminder of the state’s history of oppressing its Black residents
‘Disability is an often forgotten piece of the court’s docket’
Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions could have far-reaching implications for people with disabilities.