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School meals are the main source of nutrition for millions of children every day – and research has shown that healthy school meals can enhance student well-being and success while …

Researcher Neil Lewis Jr. discusses how the Social Science Research Council’s Mercury Project‘s team’s approach to research can improve the evidence generation process. Where do we go from here? And how …

There is no question about it: women must be accepted as equal partners with men if we are to successfully address the shared and existential challenges of our time, from …

"Enacting change requires a mass intellectual movement—you need to influence people. Then they'll demand change from leaders."

"When someone's really coming at you, instead of being scared, know that what it means is" whatever you're doing is working."

"If we don't have a concept of anti-racism, anti-sexism, and proactive inclusion, the default will be economic rights that are by design, management, and implementation, exclusionary."

"One of the things we should do is question systems. That means looking at the root of the system and determining whether it can be changed."

"I fail to see how any change-making can be sustainable without actually transforming the systems that undergird policies and institutions."

"To hope is the very first and most fundamental ingredient for any change to happen. So we have no choice but to be hopeful."

"People are working hard and working multiple jobs, and still can’t thrive. Policymakers and corporations have stacked the system against folks in this way. In the United States, 87 percent of occupations are considered racially segregated, and that’s after you control education.”