Health & Human Services
Mobile Apps Help Communities Produce More Accurate Homeless Counts
The Kansas City area and Houston are using mobile apps for their annual point-in-time homelessness counts and to manage the data.
About 1 in 3 Child Care Workers Are Going Hungry
Child care workers are at the center of the food insecurity crisis in America. In 2020, nearly one-third of them were food insecure.
How Governments Can Boost Workplace Safety After Supreme Court Halts Vaccine Mandate
COMMENTARY | Although the court struck down the federal government’s Covid-19 vaccine-or-test mandate, there are ways states and localities can protect workers from the virus.
Mayors Struggle With How to Push Vaccination Rates Higher
Incentive programs remain on the table, along with requirements for showing proof of vaccine to enter indoor spaces.
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New Tools Help State and Local Governments Battle Ransomware, Other Big Disasters
When governments find themselves being ransomed, their choices are typically to pay, which will undercut their ability to deliver key services to their communities due to budget restrictions, or not pay, resulting in the immediate inability to serve their communities and the loss of key data that will inevitably plague them for years afterwards.
Officials Struggle to Regulate Pop-up Covid Testing Sites—and Warn Patients to Beware
High demand for Covid screening and scarce supply have opened the door to bad actors. State officials are sounding the alarm about dubious street testing operators that could put people’s personal data, their health or wallets at risk.
One State's 'Moral Responsibility' to Make Apparel More Sustainable
New York lawmakers introduced the first "fashion sustainability" bill in the U.S. It would require global brands to disclose their climate and social impacts.
Interacting With Nature in Cities Can Reduce Loneliness
Local officials should improve access to existing green spaces, among other things, to help lessen loneliness, one study shows.
California’s Drought Reckoning Could Offer Lessons for the West
State officials and experts argue strongly for water-saving measures.
Why a Majority of White Americans Oppose Reparations For Black Citizens
A new report shows that white people believe that it would be difficult to determine financial payments, among other reasons.
Kids Who Lost Parents to Covid Deserve Help, Advocates Say
Last year, 14 states passed 36 bills that aim to improve children’s mental health.
America’s Covid Rules Are a Dumpster Fire
COMMENTARY | If you’re confused by the CDC’s new isolation guidelines, you’re not the only one.
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