Black, Native American and Latino families face serious problems from inflation

Fears of eviction. Trouble affording groceries. Unmet medical needs. A national poll — from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health — finds those are all too common experiences for high proportions of Black, Latino and Native American adults as the U.S. […] Read more »

The Major Supreme Court Decisions in 2022

… According to a recent survey from researchers at Harvard, Stanford and the University of Texas, the public is closely divided on how the court should rule in several major cases. In many of them, though, respondents held starkly different views based on their partisan affiliations. Here is a look […] Read more »

1 in 4 Asian Americans recently feared their household being targeted

Attacks on Asian Americans have been a reality since always. But given the talk of the “source” of the pandemic and the attacks on Asian women in Georgia, one out of four say they fear violence. Leila Fadel, NPR News The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new […] Read more »

New 2020 census results show increased diversity countering decade-long declines in America’s white and youth populations

The first release of race-ethnic statistics from the 2020 census makes plain that America’s “diversity explosion” is continuing, albeit in the context of slower national growth, especially among the youth. The new numbers show that, for the first time, there was a decade-long loss in the number of white Americans […] Read more »

How Covid-19 and Deaths of Despair Combine to Affect Communities

The Covid-19 pandemic has torn through the United States in the last 12 months, leaving more than half a million dead and the nation’s economy in tatters, but the virus didn’t arrive on a blank slate. Long before Covid, the Deaths of Despair epidemic was already taking a massive toll […] Read more »

Views split on whether athletes should take a stand on political, social issues

A slim majority of Americans feel it is appropriate for athletes (professional, college, and Olympic) to speak out on political or social issues, according to a new Axios/Ipsos “Hard Truths” poll. Though most acknowledge that athletes can have a positive impact when speaking out on issues around racial inequality, there […] Read more »