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Illustration only, not Treger Strasberg's friend or any family named in this article. Furniture of evicted sharecroppers left in a field near Parkin, Arkansas, in January 1936, including a kitchen cabinet, a wood stove, a dresser, a bed frame and bundled bedding.
Community

How close is the average family to losing their home?

More than a third of US adults would not cover a surprise $400 expense with cash or its…
Illustration only, not a Blue Ribbons Worldwide program. A teacher crouches outdoors to listen as an elementary student shows her something in his hand, at a school in Gasport, New York, in 2022.
Education

How can schools help kids feel like they matter?

The CDC says kids feel they matter at school when adults and peers in school care about them…
Several adult coho salmon crowded together in green water, seen from below the surface among rising bubbles. Photograph by Roger Tabor for the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
Environment

Bringing Coho salmon back to the Mendocino Coast

Around 30,000 adult coho returned to Mendocino Coast rivers in the 2024 to 2025 season, roughly ten times…
A mother holding her young son in the dining room of the home she bought after leaving public housing.
Community

Rapid re-housing vs permanent supportive housing

HUD caps rapid re-housing at 24 months with no disability test, while permanent supportive housing runs with no…
A fire crew in yellow shirts and hard hats stands on a gravel road watching a low prescribed fire burn through dry brush.
Environment

What is cultural burning?

Yurok and Karuk families are putting fire back on the land to bring back hazel, elk and open…
A woman standing among giant coast redwoods near Orick, California, looking up at one of the trunks.
Environment

How do you restore a redwood forest?

Restoring a redwood forest involves thinning crowded young trees, removing old logging roads, rebuilding streams and bringing cultural…