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A new report says that one reason has to do with white people's perceptions that they're losing financial dominance as people of color are making gains.

An NPR exclusive: The Education Department has announced a plan to help public school teachers wrongly hit with debts, sometimes more than $20,000, because of a troubled federal grant program.

This fall, Making a Murderer returns to Netflix for its second season, and a new HBO documentary, The Sentence, is about woman serving nine years in prison for drug crimes her ex-boyfriend committed.

Making school lunches healthier is part of a push by the first lady to reduce the epidemic of childhood obesity.

The unemployment rate for transgender people is double that of the general population. A new program aims to change that. It's all because of a trans woman who's employed trans people for years.

Federal prisoners can request compassionate release if they are terminally ill, but a recent investigation found that many die while their requests drift through the system. Now, prison leaders say they will simplify the approval process and start tracking requests electronically.

We'll know later on Tuesday whether negotiators met their deadline to reach a deal. Steve Inskeep talks to Joseph Cirincione, president of Ploughshares Fund, about the root of distrust with Iran.

The state of Oregon is channeling millions of dollars into addiction recovery programs due to a law that passed in 2020. But the state is having trouble finding the workforce to fill these jobs.

David Greene talks to Enitan Kuku, who's from Nigeria, and Mildred Apenyo, who's from Uganda, about a U.S. State Department entrepreneurial fellowship for young leaders from Africa.

Some drug users in Philadelphia are reselling syringes they get for free at needle exchanges. That's illegal, but researchers say the practice still helps prevent the spread of diseases like HIV.