New York's bail reform law has led to a decrease in bail-setting and pretrial detention, but bail has become less affordable and racial disparities persist, according to a new statewide report.

Four Eastern Shore counties would lose disparity grant funding under Maryland’s proposed FY2027 budget, shifting costs to ...

The data, released Friday by the Department of Children and Families in its annual report, show the number of children with ...

Others live on borrowed time. They start with an “empty tank,” already owing years of labour to their families before they ...

Disparities in life expectancy, driven by race, geography, socioeconomic status and systemic inequities, have widened alarmingly – from a 12.6-year gap in 2000 to a staggering 20.4 years by 2021 in ...

Social scientists and gender theorists have long debated the causes of achievement disparities between males and females in certain competencies. For example, if we find (as we do) that most engineers ...

Introduction: Power disparity, defined as the unequal control over valuable resources within teams, has been shown to negatively impact overall team performance, though the mediating mechanisms and ...

A new study analyzing dozens of published papers over five decades focusing on health care disparities in Washington, DC, found that those that employed medical humanities approaches identified ...

Early in her career, Prof. Susan C. Stokes saw a wave of democratization. In Southern Europe, Latin America and the former Soviet Union, authoritarian regimes were tumbling. But in this first quarter ...

Meritocracy is a modern “myth” that perpetuates inequality, blocks opportunity, and harms the common good, a professor argued during an Arizona State University ...

Two decades of stalled progress on closing the U.S. gender pay gap may have less to do with the office and more to do with the kitchen sink. Today, men average roughly eight hours of housework a week, ...