We examine the rise in chronic absenteeism among public school students in the U.S. and how school nurses can help.

Young, Black men fresh out of college may face discrimination + have a harder time than young white men when building ...

Between Aug. 30 and Oct. 8, a team of researchers at four universities surveyed thousands of American adults and asked the following question: When making a decision about voting, including candidates ...

Knowing what a nationally representative sample is — and isn’t — will help you avoid errors in covering clinical trials, opinion polls and other research.

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2013 research on contraception policies and pregnancy rates, including a 2012 study from Washington University in St. Louis on the relationship between free access to birth control and abortion rates.

Young voters have been a major voting bloc since 1971, when the U.S. lowered the federal voting age from 21 to 18. Today, they are one of America’s largest voting blocs — about 50 million people aged ...

Elections in the U.S. are decentralized. Local jurisdictions or states, not the federal government, decide how to run them. There is no single voting method, and decisions on which voting method to ...

Know the research, know the survey data, know the legal landscape and know the history: Those were the big takeaways for reporters covering felony disenfranchisement from an hourlong webinar on Oct.

Election Day has arrived, but the work of journalists covering the 2024 U.S. election is not over. Reporting on election night results may be the most pivotal task of the entire campaign season. This ...