Study Ties Abortion Restrictions to 'Significant' Jump in Suicide Rates for Young Women

We conducted the survey with self-administrated questionnaires. We trained human resources specialists of the factories and senior undergraduate medical students from each city as investigators prior to the investigation.

Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap

Black households in the United States have, on average, considerably less wealth than white households. In 2021, the average wealth of households with a head identifying as black was $160,000, while the corresponding level for white-headed households was $998,000, nearly 5.5 times greater. The fact that blacks, on average, have considerably less wealth than whites is troubling, not just because it is an inequality of outcomes, but also because it strongly suggests inequality of opportunity. The economic opportunities provided by wealth range from insuring consumption against disruptions to a household’s disposable income (such as surprise medical expenditures or unemployment spells) to enabling access to housing, good public schools, and postsecondary education. 

Because of the racial inequity upon which America was built and which is ingrained in American life today, when people see those Black and Brown lives being broken, people feel less empathy and pain than they would if the victims were white. American society’s tolerance for dysfunction (wrongful convictions, grossly excessive sentences, police brutality, and criminalization of addiction, poverty, and mental illness) is higher than it would be if the victims were considered by mainstream America to be lives that mattered: white lives.

Transgender Americans’ housing crisis

Get housing assistance for transgender individuals

Homelessness is the most extreme way LGBTQ Americans endure housing instability. In the case of LGBT youth, “The evidence shows that breakdown in young people’s families is the main driver of homelessness,” explained Laura Durso, vice president of the LGBT Research and Communications Project at the Center for American Progress. Discrimination also makes finding stable and safe housing more difficult for LGBTQ Americans.

A study matched potential housing applicants, or testers, with people similar in every way except for sexual orientation or gender identity. The testers then made the same inquiries about available rental units and expressed the same qualifications and housing needs.

“The study found that landlords treated lesbian couples comparably with straight couples, but housing providers were less likely to show gay men available units and quoted them higher prices. 

Biden administration extends housing protections to LGBTQ people.

Same-sex couples and transgender individuals disproportionately experience housing discrimination and will now have access to recourse under federal law.

President Joe Biden’s Day One executive order expanding the Supreme Court’s June 2020 decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia — which found that federal protections against sex-based employment bias also cover discrimination due to one’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

“Enforcing the Fair Housing Act to combat housing discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity isn’t just the right thing to do — it’s the correct reading of the law after Bostock,” Damon Y. Smith, HUD’s principal deputy general counsel, said in a statement. “We are simply saying that the same discrimination that the Supreme Court has said is illegal in the workplace is also illegal in the housing market.”

Striking UC graduate students picket human resources headquarters in Riverside

The ongoing strike is starting to disrupt undergraduate classes, research and grading at the University of California system's 10 campuses as they move toward final exams and holiday breaks. At the system's second-largest school, UC Berkeley, hundreds of striking academic workers picketed a main entrance while passersby cheered, and a supportive band jammed on the lawn.

Book Review: Winning the War to Secure Multiracial Democracy

When "What are you?" does come up — via strangers at the gym, on the bus, in Walmart — I take a deep breath and dive in. "Well, my mother's paternal grandmother emigrated to the U.S. from what would now be called Iberia," I begin, to the dismay of everyone involved.

As America becomes more racially diverse and social taboos against interracial marriage fade, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that majorities of multiracial adults are proud of their mixed-race background (60%)  and feel their racial heritage has made them more open to other cultures (59%). 

SLO County students’ test scores fall after COVID pandemic

For virtually every societal problem, there is likely to be a corresponding public policy. For example.
SLO County students’ test scores fall after COVID pandemic 

2023 Grant Round Open: African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund

2023 National Grants Now Available!
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
Today, the National Trust’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund opened the Letter of Intent (LOI) period for its 2023 National Grant Program. Grants provide a range of funding from $50,000 to $150,000 for ongoing preservation activities for historic places like sites, museums and landscapes that represent African American cultural heritage. Learn more about the 2022 grantees.

Through its National Grant Program, the Action Fund supports projects focused on African American cultural heritage, including capital projects, organizational capacity-building, project planning, and programming and interpretation. There are new priorities for this grant round. 

Apply here: African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund #TellTheFullStory