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: 5 minutes As discussions about reparations for Black Americans gain some ground, the first state with a task force on the issue is hearing that it needs to think bigger. African ...

Reading Time: 5 minutes For decades in Houston, where resident Bryan “Lucas” Parras grew up near the city’s shipping channel, neighborhoods have faced the cumulative impacts of toxic emissions. The ...

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 ...

In this 2015 photo, Rafael Surmay (left), Preston Pahia and Donna Johnson (right) distribute drinking water to neighbors in East Porterville, California, an unincorporated community in Tulare County.

This demographic mismatch comes alongside an increasingly successful effort to push high courts to the right, the subject of a recent Public Integrity investigation. Nationally, state supreme courts ...

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 schools. If you need support ...

Rethinking systems that maintain the gap Taxes. Higher education. Healthcare. Credit scores. Lending. So many of the systems that run through our lives have an impact on economic inequality, and too ...

Episode 2 of The Heist: When then-candidate Donald Trump was running for president, he made three big promises: build a border wall, repeal Obamacare and cut taxes. He didn’t deliver on the first two.

Reading Time: 3 minutes The country’s worst coronavirus surge is threatening hospitals’ ability to treat patients, but Americans and states still aren’t acting like it, the White House Coronavirus ...

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 ...