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 ...

Los Angeles resident Walter Foster, 80, holds up a sign as the California Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input in 2022. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Reading Time: 5 ...

Credit: Interactive Map by Phylicia Lee Brown/Rice University; Data by Thomas Marlow/James Elliott/Scott Frickel/; Base map shapefile from Harris County Appraisal District. Can’t view the map? Then ...

Reading Time: 6 minutes A leading advocate for homeless rights in Congress says the federal government must do a better job helping schools identify and assist students who are experiencing housing ...

Reading Time: 6 minutes This story was published as a partnership between the Center for Public Integrity and Fresnoland. When Arlin Benavides Jr. set out to hear residents’ environmental concerns in ...

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 ...

Reading Time: 17 minutes Editor’s note: This story has graphic language and descriptions of racial slurs, harmful rhetoric and violence against Asians and other students of color attending public ...

Then there are wage disparities. As just one example: Census Bureau data tracking both white and Black earnings across 217 occupations — from bus driver to CEO — shows higher median pay for white ...

David Levinthal, senior Washington correspondent for Business Insider and former editor-at- large at the Center for Public Integrity, said some donors like Mnuchin try to make sure they get access to ...

The White House experts recommended more masking, more physical distancing and more testing of asymptomatic people, warning that vaccines won’t arrive soon enough to help those killed in the current ...

Reading Time: 8 minutes This is a news analysis from the Center for Public Integrity. “You will not replace us!” The words chanted in 2017 by tiki torch-wielding white supremacists in Charlottesville, ...

The federal eviction moratorium lifts on Saturday, and expanded unemployment benefits expire July 31. The Senate is expected to take up a new stimulus bill this week, but it’s not yet clear whether it ...