Rather than offering wages attractive to adults, employers want lawmakers to push teens into some of the most dangerous jobs in the country.
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This blog explores what a social movement is and is not, and explains how movements can be built and sustained to stand the test of time.
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More people in the US get cancer screening when employers are mandated to provide paid sick leave, research finds.
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In the context of market economies and the fragmented societies they often yield, well-being can seem like an individual pursuit. Yet as the articles in this series, “Centered Self: The…
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The Plastic Solutions Fund is working to build a world in which only truly necessary and non-toxic plastics are produced, and even those are reused, repaired, or recycled. A sponsored project of…
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Landslides are one of Kentucky’s costliest natural disasters. Climate change is increasing their danger.
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In an environmental studies class in a secondary school in a South African township, the teacher takes the students outside into the sunny fall morning. She shows them how to…
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Though speaking out requires them to relive losing their wanted pregnancies, four plaintiffs told The 19th they’re doing it because they know they’re “not the only ones like this.”…
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READ THE TRANSCRIPT This episode offers an incredible story – and perhaps a bold new model for increasing investments in America’s nonprofit workforce.You’ll learn how a group of nonprofits showed elected leaders the essential value of the nonprofit human services workforce, and broke through malaise…
Read the full article at: fundthepeople.org
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For most things in life, from keeping a bug collection as a hobby to putting a satellite into orbit, taking off is the hardest part. The same happens even for…
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Two social scientists explain how caste-identities are pervasive in not just Hinduism but other South Asian faith groups as well.
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Access to paid leave in three states was associated with a significant decrease in the likelihood of women leaving their jobs following a spouse’s health shock.