A heat dome occurs when a persistent region of high pressure traps heat over an area. The heat dome can stretch over several states and linger for days to weeks,…
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What Would Abortion Bans Mean for Rural Areas
The Rural Blog Jun 23, 2022If the U.S. Supreme Court decides this month that there is no constitutional right to abortion, overturning almost 50 years of case law, health officials expect more births that will…
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Kids’ Neighborhoods Can Affect Their Developing Brains
The Conversation Jun 22, 2022The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Children growing up in more disadvantaged neighborhoods – meaning those with poor housing quality, more poverty…
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How Funders Can Collaborate on Community Health
Grantmakers in Health Jun 22, 2022We are experiencing a watershed moment for philanthropy-funded social change efforts in the United States. The partnerships, knowledge, and resources that funders leverage have never been more important in contributing…
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The Injustices Perpetrated by Massive Factory Farms
Democracy Journal Jun 21, 2022“I remember the day that they started spraying hog waste on us. It was a Saturday in the mid-1990s . . . . Just as I was thinking to myself that there was no way…
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These Young People Are Preparing to Protect Abortion Access in a Post-Roe US
Resource Generation Jun 21, 2022In early 2022 in anticipation of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade (via the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization), Resource Generation leaders launched a cross-chapter member-led…
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How Repeated Exposure to Hurricanes Likely Harms Mental Health
Futurity Jun 21, 2022Repeated exposure to hurricanes is linked to adverse psychological symptoms and may be associated with increased mental health problems, according to a new study. The findings, which hold true whether…
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Decades of Research Document the Detrimental Health Effects of BPA
The Conversation Jun 19, 2022Whether or not you’ve heard of the chemical bisphenol A, better known as BPA, studies show that it’s almost certainly in your body. BPA is used in the manufacturing of…
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The Environmental Harms of Prisons Put Incarcerated Individuals at Risk
Prison Policy Initiative Jun 18, 2022No one is spared from reckoning with human-induced environmental change, like pollution from industrial emitters and increasingly severe natural disasters. Yet in correctional facilities, incarcerated people have no agency over…
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How Philanthropy Can Invest in LGBTQ Healthcare
Grantmakers in Health Jun 17, 2022Discrimination is all too common and prevents LGBTQ people from living healthy lives. A 2016 survey of more than 3,000 LGBTQ Missourians conducted by PROMO, Missouri’s LGBTQ statewide advocacy organization,…
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Policies to Help Older Adults to Re-enter the Workforce
Urban Institute Jun 17, 2022Much of the debate over the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the unemployment rate, but that focus understates the pandemic’s impact on the labor market. Although millions of workers have…
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Why Donors Need to Fund Grassroots Organizing for Reproductive Rights
Chronicle of Philanthropy Jun 17, 2022Before the U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion leak hit the headlines — and the avalanche of legislation criminalizing safe abortion access arrived in states across the country — grassroots organizers were bracing…
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