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A year ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s plan to dismantle a program that has protected 700,000 undocumented immigrants from deportation. As that anniversary neared, educator Astou Thiane met with President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona to discuss the future of immigration reform in this country […]

At 107 years old, Viola Fletcher is the oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. She recounted to a congressional subcommittee last week the traumatic night when a white mob forced her family to flee their thriving Black neighborhood. “I still see Black men being shot; Black bodies lying in the streets,” Fletcher […]

Provisional ballots are meant to be a failsafe for voters, who are required to cast them when their eligibility is in question. But such ballots require extra steps to ensure they’re counted, increasing the odds they ultimately won’t be. In Ohio, provisional ballot use is among the highest in the nation, according to data tracked […]

Prepare for a new era of debate over immigration. Should the Democratic-controlled Congress  legalize undocumented workers and revamp the visa system? How will the Biden administration address root causes of Central American migration while meeting U.S. obligations to fairly consider asylum claims?  Organizations pushing to dramatically reduce immigration are already in the thick of it […]

After President Joe Biden revealed his $2 trillion infrastructure plan last month, advocates and historians began to worry how the money would be distributed. The country is still feeling the unequal effects of the last hefty infrastructure bill. The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 put the federal government in charge of determining new freeway routes […]

President Joe Biden is pushing to reopen the majority of the nation’s elementary and middle schools for full-time in-person learning by early May, but some families aren’t comfortable sending their children back — and not only because of COVID-19. The rise in anti-Asian bullying, harassment and violence, including the March mass shootings in the Atlanta […]

The pandemic shut down child care centers across the country. It’s no coincidence that it also sent unemployment rates soaring among women, especially those with young children. That’s not only the conclusion of many mothers, but also of a recent study by the Centre for Economic Policy Research. The unusual events of the last year […]

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a sweeping policing reform measure last week in honor of George Floyd, the 46-year-old Black man whose death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in May sparked monthslong nationwide protests. The 220-to-212 vote, mostly along party lines, came six days before jury selection for the murder trial […]

For four years, the Trump administration’s rollbacks of environmental protections fell hardest on communities of color and low-income neighborhoods — places that have long borne the brunt of pollution. But even before that, the federal government’s efforts to combat environmental injustices were often spotty and weak. That may be changing. President Joe Biden pledged as […]

Former President Donald Trump rolled back federal regulations more than any other president in U.S. history — in some cases to the detriment of Americans’ health and safety, according to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and Vox. But President Joe Biden has already set the stage for undoing Trump’s changes, and Congress can quickly wipe out Trump’s deregulations pushed […]

The United States entered 2020 with historic levels of income inequality. Health impacts and economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic have accelerated that gulf, with depression-level unemployment rates, a looming eviction and mortgage crisis and food insecurity having a disproportionate impact on women and Black and Latino communities. We share important news about inequality issues […]

Once Virginia schools begin in-person teaching again, educators and school resource police will have to follow two new laws aimed at stopping the criminalization of children’s behavior at school — legislation inspired by Center for Public Integrity reporting. One law passed this year prohibits charging students with criminal disorderly conduct during school or at school-sponsored events. The […]

When he picks his agriculture secretary, President-elect Joe Biden will signal whether farm policy continues to have outsize focus at the U.S. Department of Agriculture or there will be new emphasis on food and nutrition programs that affect an array of Americans.  The USDA’s new leader will oversee an agency that employs more people than […]

The Small Business Administration has until Nov. 19 to release detailed information on more than $700 billion it loaned to small businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic — data that will provide more insight into who received loans, if the loans worked as planned and how the agency managed the program.  A federal judge last […]