The inequality in who the disaster affected was then amplified in the recovery process, with black and Hispanic respondents more likely than their white counterparts to report being unable to access needed aid of any kind

Date on which the Trump administration, as part of its efforts to boost the U.S. coal industry, proposed new regulations for coal-fired…

Number of U.S. states that elect their supreme courts: 38 Number of states holding supreme court elections this year: 33 Number of…

Facing down corporate backlash

Rank of black women among the demographic groups that will be most affected by the Janus ruling: 1

This November, voters in two Southern states, Alabama and West Virginia, will weigh in on ballot measures that would add anti-abortion provisions to their state constitutions

Rank of the May 16 teacher march in Raleigh, North Carolina, among the capital city’s largest marches ever, part of a recent wave of teacher uprisings that have won policy changes in states including Kentucky and West Virginia: 1

Daily wage some of the undocumented immigrants held at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, earn for cooking, cleaning and maintaining the facility: $1

The program could end up serving as a tax subsidy for gentrification

Two American Indian tribes in North Carolina are among the groups seeking to join a court challenge to federal regulators’ decision to…