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    Changes To U.S. Tax Code Sends Mixed Feelings for Farmers

    Harvest Public Media Dec 21, 2017

    Many rural businesses and farms will benefit from the tax overhaul passed this week by Congress. But there’s a catch: If the changes fail to spur economic growth as intended,…

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    Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017: Implications for Charities and Donors

    Huffington Post Dec 21, 2017

    On Dec. 20, 2017, Congress enacted the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Act”). Implications for Charities: Unrelated Business Income Tax Rules: Rather than having the flexibility to aggregate all…

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    Q&A With Grantmakers In Aging: Embracing The Older and Wiser

    Giving Compass

    The percentage of American philanthropy funding that goes toward aging programs is less than two percent. Grantmakers In Aging wants to remedy that. The organization — which began 35 years…

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    How Celebrity Suffragettes Helped Women Get the Vote

    The Atlantic Dec 18, 2017

    In researching her recent book, Gilded Suffragists: The New York Socialites Who Fought for Women’s Right to Vote, Johanna Neuman dug through archives and discovered that the decades-long battle to pass the 19th…

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    What Does the Doug Jones Election Mean for Criminal Justice Reform?

    The Marshall Project Dec 17, 2017

    Last year, prospects were looking good for a bipartisan effort in Congress to overhaul federal sentencing. But after long and careful negotiations, one senator almost single-handedly torpedoed the measure: the…

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    How Killing Net Neutrality Will Hurt Digital Activism

    Mashable Dec 13, 2017

    Last month, Change.org reached a milestone of 200 million people having signed or started a petition on our platform in the last 10 years. We’ve always viewed our free petition…

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    Congress Cannot Continue to Procrastinate on Immigration Reform

    The Heritage Foundation Dec 11, 2017

    President Trump and countless Republicans ran on fixing our immigration system. There is no shortage of ideas on how to get the job done: build a wall; build fences; use…

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    The Roles of UN SDG Advocates

    Devex International Development Dec 11, 2017

    When we put a commercial of Messi during a large athletic tournament or soccer game talking about the SDGs, we reach audiences that previously hadn’t heard of the SDGs. Young…

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    Staggering New Numbers on Youth Homelessness Demand Action

    Youth Today Dec 9, 2017

    Every year, more than 4 million young people experience homelessness in the United States. And while youth homelessness is a largely hidden problem, it impacts a staggering number of young…

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    What Can We Do About Genocide in Myanmar?

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    The systematic exclusion of the Rohingya can be traced back through the history of Myanmar (formerly Burma). It is always difficult to say exactly where the conflict begins, but in…

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    California Education is Not Teaching Our Kids How To Read

    Los Angeles Times Dec 8, 2017

    Too many California children can’t read, and the state doesn’t have an adequate plan to fix the problem, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The complaint, filed in Los Angeles…

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    Granting Women Land Rights in Rural India

    ImpactAlpha Dec 8, 2017

    Most rural women in India lack a land title. If one’s husband died, or decided to leave the family, they could be left homeless, without rights to their home. All…

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