Since 2014, nine states have passed laws pressing businesses to compost food waste instead of trashing it.

But new research from Texas McCombs finds most of those state laws have been ineffective in reducing food waste disposal. The sole exception is Massachusetts, which achieved a 7.3% decrease over time.

“We were surprised to find that in every other state, the data suggests the laws did basically nothing,” says Ioannis Stamatopoulos, associate professor of information, risk, and operations management. “But in Massachusetts, the law had precisely the expected effects.”

A new project at the Institute for Health and Disability Policy Studies (IHDPS) at the KU Life Span Institute aims to examine how these prejudices, known as medical ableism, affect people with disabilities. The project, conducted in partnership with researchers at Washington State University, is supported through a $1.2 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health. It is the first large-scale study to investigate the prevalence of medical ableism and its effects on health outcomes.

A study from the University of Kansas has found that, across America, suburban school districts diversifed dramatically from 2000 to 2024. The study, using Census data and geographic mapping technology, found that majority White schools in suburban areas dropped, but racial isolation in urban schools increased. The results show the historic pattern of white flight to suburbs is changing, as is school segregation in America.

In the last quarter century, most countries around the world have failed to adequately protect the human rights of their citizens. In that time, nations’ efforts to protect human rights have been stagnant – with the number of countries receiving failing grades easily twice as high as those receiving passing grades. Those are the findings of the second annual report on global human rights released today by the University of Rhode Island. The 2024 Global RIghts Project (GRIP) report, produced by a team of researchers based at the University of Rhode Island’s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, finds an alarming disregard for the respect of human rights around the globe.

States are failing to address the impact of such Transnational Human Rights Violations (THRVs), leaving them in breach of commitments in UN treaties that require them to protect the human rights of everyone within their territory, the research shows.

While prominent acts of violence, such as the Salisbury poisoning and the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi, have made the news, most THRVs happen out of the public eye, says the paper.

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