Politics & Government Good News

As with many national social movements, young people have been on the frontlines of the menstrual equity push. In 2020, students across the country raised money, lobbied, held school assemblies, and launched social media campaigns to make period products free in their schools

The Denver study proves that highly vulnerable people living on the street will accept housing and, with help, stay housed for the long term. That’s good news at a time when homelessness is rising nationally.

Lawmakers in at least eight states are using COVID aid to fund behavioral health services.

We did the work of tracking down nonprofits supporting refugees in every single state. Use this tool to find the best local organization to volunteer with or donate to. You can help make a difference for refugees in the United States.

In 2019, a new marker was erected at the site where Till’s body was recovered. It was the fourth replacement at the location.

Poverty is a major source of crime. Bad housing, bad schools, bad infrastructure, including the “poverty of access.” Most criminality is of want—because of lack of income, food, and other necessities. If you end poverty, you end most crime.

The climate activists have been trying to get the names and details of Afghan campaigners and their families onto evacuation lists, but eight days after their first calls for help, there has been no response.

Today’s age-16 suffrage movement has interesting parallels with the successful 26th Amendment campaign. Many of the original arguments against allowing 18-year-olds to vote — that they’re too immature — are wielded today to stymie efforts to lower the voting age.

Here at Good Good Good, we know that sometimes the littlest efforts add up to effect big change. These apps offer simple, quick, and convenient ways to take action in your everyday life.

Your elected representatives are here to serve you and your community's interests. Reaching out to them is one major way to make change in the United States.

Corporations do make an enormous impact on the climate, and they bear a major responsibility, AND our personal habits impact the environment, too, so we should seek out ways to reduce our environmental impact by altering our lifestyles.

2020 was one for the history books. In a year full of surprises, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges 2020 brought. At Good Good Good, we never want to avoid the reality of the world’s greatest pains. Instead, we look for hopeful stories happening right within them.