Reading Time: 4 minutes The clock is ticking on a proposed Pennsylvania law mandating that school districts protect the federally guaranteed rights of homeless students. The bill gained traction last ...

The Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act was supposed to be a strong dose of medicine for the ills of heirs’ property — jointly owned land with multiple heirs not documented in wills or deedbooks, ...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Listen to the Toxic Labor investigation. Read the transcript of the audio. Brothers Santos and Mariano have been chasing jobs after hurricanes for nearly two decades. And the ...

Sixteen-year-old Horlandina Lopez-Perez left her aunt’s home in the middle of the night on Oct. 1, 2022, with her four-month-old son and a few baby clothes. Alexander Perez-Méndez, 17, thanked his ...

Reading Time: 5 minutes Professor Manuel Teodoro did not set out to write a book about civic engagement and democracy. He was just curious about some roadside water kiosks. In “The Profits of Distrust ...

Reading Time: 3 minutes While restoration of the federal Voting Rights Act languishes in a split Congress, an already deep divide in Americans’ access to voting has widened over the past year. In part ...

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Inside a squatty stone community center, a vintage photography exhibit documents Boley’s better days, when a pair of banks and dozens of homegrown businesses on those same streets bustled as the town ...

Taking them out of class could worsen their chances of success. But an analysis of data in California shows the state’s homeless students are suspended at higher rates than their peers. California ...

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.

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 ...

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by President Biden last November, is pouring billions of dollars into an upgrade of the country’s aging water infrastructure. But a new study has found that ...