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Disaster recovery spending for major flood events in the United States is at an all-time high. Yet research examining equity in disaster assistance increasingly shows that recovery funding underserves vulnerable populations. Based on a review of academic and grey literature, this article synthesizes empirical knowledge of population disparities in access to flood disaster assistance and outcomes during disaster recovery. The results identify renters, low-income households, and racial and ethnic ...

Like many industries, the biopharmaceutical sector in Massachusetts is working to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion among its workforce, leadership, and supplier channels.

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The study found the presence and usage of public libraries and museums to be positively associated with community health, school effectiveness, institutional connection, and cultural opportunity.

With 1 in 3 city dwellers lacking access to basic services, new WRI report charts a new urban roadmap to improve billions of lives, reduce environmental damage and generate economic prosperity for all

Utility industry news and analysis for energy professionals.

Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital - Congress. The House and Senate are both in session this week. The House is set to take up the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R....

At the Budget Center, we believe that budgets are about values. And as policymakers look to finalize the 2021-22 state budget, it’s important

Equity is higher ed’s word of the hour – and rightly so. After all, the pandemic has greatly intensified equity gaps. A Strada survey reported that half of all Latinx students survey and 42 percent of Black students canceled or altered their educational plans due to the pandemic, compared to 26 percent of non-Hispanic white students. But the problem goes deeper than pandemic-driven disparities. After all, American colleges and universities have a long, ugly history of bias along lines of...

The race for Virginia governor has already become a marketplace for ideas new, old, tried, tested and rejected, columnist Gordon C. Morse writes.