Tag: Opinion
It’s time to take stock of housing options
The United States is facing an expanding gap between how much workers earn and how much they have to pay for housing.
Workers have faced...
Teacher turnover may not be as bad as expected
Every spring, school and district leaders ask teachers about their plans to return to teaching in the fall. They need to know how many...
AI may be answer in cyberattacks
The average business receives 10,000 alerts every day from the various software tools it uses to monitor for intruders, malware and other threats. Cybersecurity...
Disasters hurt affordable housing most
The tornadoes and wildfires that devastated communities from Kentucky to Colorado in the final weeks of 2021 left thousands of people displaced or homeless....
Want better child care? Try entrepreneurial training
Christine Heer – a veteran preschool teacher – had long harbored a passion to run a nature-based preschool. So in 2015 she opened Sprouts...
Holdouts may be returning to the workforce
The U.S. economy surprised analysts by adding 467,000 jobs in January, overcoming concerns about the COVID-19 omicron variant and continuing a long streak of...
Digital divide isn’t easy to close
In 2021, N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy announced that education officials in his state had “closed” the digital divide by ensuring that every public school...
Diversity lacking in nonprofit leadership
About 87% of nonprofit CEOs in the U.S. were white in 2019, down from 90% in 2016. Similarly, roughly 78% of nonprofit board members...
Inflation inequality is a thing, and it’s getting worse
The fastest rate of inflation in 40 years is hurting families across the U.S. who are seeing ever-higher prices for everything from meat and...
Make healthy lives for all Rhode Islanders a top priority
Over the last few years, we’ve worked closely together as co-chairs of the Rhode Island Foundation-initiated long-term health planning effort. During that time, we’ve...