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Here's what journalists need to know to bolster their reporting on potential cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...
Journalists, journalism faculty and others recently took our audience survey to give us valuable feedback on how we can help ...
To help journalists, we read through dozens of published research papers and unpacked several recent studies about fluoride ...
While online social contact can be traced back to the 1980s, online dating began to gain more prominence — and participants — around 1997, according to a 2011 study by the Oxford Internet Institute.
Each year, thousands of people die trying to cross roads in the U.S., making pedestrian safety a perpetual policy issue in cities and towns of all sizes. That’s why local news outlets pay close ...
If you answered A, you’re correct — and not alone. About 3 in 4 adults in the U.S. can discern real political news headlines from fake ones, finds a new paper, “Is Journalistic Truth Dead? Measuring ...
Recent research in the Quarterly Journal of Economics offers previously unseen levels of detail unraveling the relationship between labor unions and income inequality in the U.S. The study, “Unions ...
While bigger paychecks don’t guarantee greater job satisfaction, academic studies indicate that when teacher earnings rise, public school districts and students can benefit in a range of ways. The ...
Political scientist Mike Binder has likened conducting polls and surveys to home-brewing beer. Both might seem relatively easy to do, but both require ample thought and planning if you want ...
School board elections have grown increasingly politicized in recent years as conservative politicians and advocacy organizations push to restrict how public schools address issues related to race, ...
In June 2023, Nevada legislators approved $380 million in public funding for a 30,000-seat ballpark for the Oakland A’s, who are expected to throw their first pitch in Las Vegas in 2028 after Major ...