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    France to Provide Contraception for Free to Young Women

    Global Citizen Sep 18, 2021

    France is the latest country in the European Union to offer free contraception. Women under the age of 25 will be eligible to receive access to free birth control in the country…

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    The Impact of COVID-19 on Incarcerated Folks and the Role of Correctional Care

    Grantmakers In Health Sep 17, 2021

    In February of 2020, Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) knew that that a recently named novel virus was going to prove the central thesis of our mission: that public health and…

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    Mission Possible: Clean Energy Districts Are Championing Solar on Farms

    Winneshiek Energy District Sep 17, 2021

    (Image: Joel Zook advises farmers on solar) Part five in a multi-part series on Clean Energy Districts (CED) and policies to make CEDs “universal local” institutions. Read part one, part two, part three,…

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    Improving Workforce Services for the Elderly

    Brookings

    Americans are living longer, are healthier at older ages, and increasingly are working beyond the traditional age of retirement. While many who work until late in life do so to…

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    Solve These Two Problems To Save The Planet

    Fast Company

    A few days ago someone posted a question on Reddit: How do we save this planet? As the Amazon burns, and CO2 levels in the atmosphere hit record highs, and…

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    How Philanthropy Can Guide a Healthy Democracy

    Medium

    There are plenty of voices — and data — that amplify a trend of declining confidence in democracy among Americans today. At PACE, we are encouraged by the efforts we see making…

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    The Mental Health Consequences of Family Member Incarceration

    ScienceDirect Sep 16, 2021

    Research increasingly documents the repercussions of family member incarceration for health, but little is known about the relative health consequences of different types of family member incarceration (including parent, sibling,…

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    Redesigning Democracy During Crisis: Solutions for Inclusion

    Knight Foundation

    The United States is being buffeted by three staggering events, any one of which would be enough to destabilize our society: a fast-spreading pandemic, a severe economic recession caused by…

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    New Leadership May Solve Old Problems in Our Food System

    Food Tank

    Vanessa Garcia Polanco’s passion for food and agricultural policy arose from the influences of her community in the Cibao Valley of the Dominican Republic, for whom “local food was not an option;…

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    What’s the Law on Vaccine Exemptions? A Religious Liberty Expert Explains

    The Conversation Sep 15, 2021

    For Americans wary of COVID-19 vaccine mandates, like the sweeping requirements President Joe Biden announced Sept. 9, 2021, it seems there are plenty of leaders offering ways to get exemptions…

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    How Education Can Get Young, Informed Americans to Vote

    The 74

    The hidden driver of low youth turnout isn’t a lack of political interest or motivation, Holbein and Hillygus write. It’s that the act of voting is “costly.” Citizens have to…

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    Report Indicates Staggering Amount of Environmental Defenders Killed in 2020

    Aljazeera Sep 14, 2021

    Colombia is the world’s most dangerous country for environmental defenders, a report published on Monday by Global Witness, an international human rights group, highlighted. For the second year in a…

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