Coronavirus (COVID-19) Families, Communities, and Education

Empty bunkbeds await detainees at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) newest detention facility in Anson, Texas. Called the Bluebonnet Detention Center (BBDC), it will start receiving detainees during the week of Dec. 9, 2019 and is slated to accommodate up to 1,000 ICE detainees.1231bluebonnet002

As COVID-19 spreads in ICE detention, oversight is more critical than ever

John Hudak and Christine Stenglein

Thursday, May 14, 2020

FILE PHOTO: People who lost their jobs wait in line to file for unemployment following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at an Arkansas Workforce Center in Fort Smith, Arkansas, U.S. April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Nick Oxford/File Photo/File Photo

What weekly unemployment claims reveal about the local impacts of the COVID-19 recession

May 14, 2020

Helen and Tyler McClenahan help their kids with school work at home during Washington Governor's "stay home, stay healthy" initiative as efforts continue to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Seattle, Washington, U.S. March 27, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Redmond

Where’s the rallying cry? America’s children are unequally prepared to absorb the impacts of COVID-19

Lisa A. Gennetian and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

AmeriCorps Guam members organize bags of produce for Guahan Sustainable Culture's drive-thru service at the Guam Public Library System Archival Center in Barrigada, April 24, 2020.Free Produce 05

The pandemic reminds us of the importance of public service

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Volunteers at Los Angeles Food Bank hand out supplies at a drive-through food giveaway as the global outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Debunking myths about COVID-19 relief’s ‘unemployment insurance on steroids’

Annelies Goger, Tracy Hadden Loh, and Nicole Bateman

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Zacariah Randall, 4, dances to the music near one of the entertainment stages at the Clarissa Street Reunion at Corn Hill on Saturday afternoon in Rochester. The celebration that stretched down the neighborhood that was an early center of Rochester's African-American culture had three different stages of entertainment, food and vendors and went into the evening. (08/15/2009 - staff photo by Andrea Morales - Democrat and Chronicle)Clarissa Street Reunion

The case for reparations for Black Americans

Andre M. Perry, Rashawn Ray, and Fred Dews

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Webinar: Policing in the era of COVID-19

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

A demonstrator holds a papier-mache jaguar with a note reading " No ecocidal train" as Mexico's Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) protest against the construction of the Mayan train and the Santa Lucia airport projects promoted by Mexico's government in Mexico City, Mexico, February 21, 2020. REUTERS/ Edgard Garrido TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Wildlife trade in Mexico, conservation, and pandemics

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, May 11, 2020

Webinar: Who gets access to public space in a pandemic?

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

A customer is worked on by a nail technician at Akiko Nails, a business that the owner claims has been greatly affected by the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

We can’t recover from a coronavirus recession without helping young workers

Martha Ross and Nicole Bateman

Thursday, May 7, 2020