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How the Poverty Rate is Determined

…report presents estimates using the official poverty measure and the SPM for calendar year 2023. The estimates contained in the report are based on information collected in the 2024 and…

Global Health and Climate Change

…mainstream English-language media, and does not localize the issue for their audiences, which suggests a significant information gap for millions of immigrants.” To help journalists localize coverage of the international…

Undercounting Gaza Death Toll

…successive MoH-collected hospital morgue data, an MoH online survey, and obituaries published on public social media pages” and “manually scraped information from open-source social media platforms, including specific obituary pages…

Washington D.C. and Trump

…Trump’s inclusion in them, as required under the Freedom of Information Act. The Democracy Forward Foundation filed Freedom of Information Act requests on July 28, asking for expedited processing in…