Aaron Carroll’s job is to persuade Americans to get their COVID-19 shot. His technique? To listen and provide solid information. American singer Dolly Parton receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine whose research she helped fund, Nashville, Tennessee, 2 March...
A reporting project profiling youth who are fighting climate change includes two students at a News Decoder partner school in Belgium. Video of “The Writing’s on the Wall” mural being painted at the European School of Brussels II. Video by Amélie...
In a series of articles and a global webinar, students at the Hewitt School in New York have drawn lessons from COVID-19 that point to a better future. Students from the Hewitt School and the African Leadership Academy during their April webinar on how COVID-19 has...
More people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. than in any other nation. Will the suffering breathe new life into efforts to reform a flawed system? Protesters in support of a single-payer healthcare system, New York City, 24 July 2017 (EPA/JUSTIN LANE) This is the...
The U.S. healthcare system is complicated. But that did not deter Maya Barr of The Hewitt School from examining the system’s shortcomings, which have been exposed during COVID-19. For her research, Barr dug into data from the Census Bureau, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pew Research Center and Johns Hopkins, as well as reports by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the American Hospital Association. Barr weighs the pros and cons regarding a single-payer system in her balanced, forward-looking report.
New York City is fighting COVID-19 and setting an example for revamping America’s criminal justice system by releasing some inmates to hotels. Protesters calling for the early release of inmates from New York jails, New York, 23 April 2020 (EPA-EFE/JUSTIN LANE)...