In nearly every state, homeless students graduate at much lower rates.And dropping out of high school increases their risk of housing instability later in life. While federal law urges schools to ...

Reading Time: 4 minutes When Melynda Price thinks of Juneteenth, she thinks of hope. She thinks of home. She thinks of heritage. A legal scholar at the University of Kentucky, Price is a ...

Reading Time: 7 minutes This story was published in partnership with Centro de Periodismo Investigativo.. Read the Spanish version here. Lea la versión en español aquí. After Hurricane Maria ...

This article was published in partnership with NBC News. The first time it happened was March 7, shortly after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a state of emergency. Eddie Song and his wife were ...

Episode 1 of The Heist: In June 2017, a group of 400 conservative donors was wrapping up a conference organized by the Koch Brothers at the five-star Broadmoor resort in Colorado Springs. The 450-acre ...

The top 1% of earners in the state would receive an average tax cut of about $10,000 per year, according to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy and West Virginia Center on ...

Listen to Danny Lewis’s report on WNYC. New York City officials warn that skyrocketing flood insurance premiums could trigger a foreclosure crisis in neighborhoods like Canarsie, which never recovered ...

Undercounting and underfunding homeless students. The bill would also require a school district’s homeless liaison to inform parents and guardians about student rights and eligibility for support ...

In the 20 years since then, many studies have documented how nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals are not exempt from implicit biases prevalent in America, said Adrienne Moetanalo, ...

In South Carolina, none of the five supreme court justices are women. It’s the only such court in the nation without a female justice. “It’s an embarrassment,” said Kaye Hearn, a former justice on the ...

In some blue states, meanwhile, the lack of federal progress has led to new or strengthened state versions of a voting rights act. In Michigan, that momentum was driven by citizen initiative after the ...

Days before Florida’s primary this year, a new task force, dubbed the “election police,” arranged the arrest of 20 people, putting them in handcuffs and loading them into police cruisers. Their crime?