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  • Youth-led Organizing Against Big Tech Companies

    YES! Magazine Oct 30, 2022

    As a seventh grader, Emma Lembke was one of the last in her friend group in Birmingham, Alabama, to get on social media. When she did, she says she soon…

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  • How WASH Action Can Help End Malnutrition

    IssueLab Oct 29, 2022

    In this report we analyze the approaches governments and donors are taking to cross-integrate nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) within their nutrition and WASH national policies and plans.…

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  • Meet the Women in DRC Who Are Empowering Others Living With Polio

    United Nations Foundation Oct 29, 2022

    Polio is a disease that is easy to vaccinate against but difficult to treat. It has affected the livelihoods of more than 4,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in…

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  • The Expiration of the Child Tax Credit Payments Causes Food Insufficiency

    Futurity Oct 29, 2022

    In the months after the advance federal Child Tax Credit cash payments ended in December 2021, low-income families with children struggled the most to afford enough food, research finds. The…

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  • How Abuse is Baked into American Sports

    The Conversation Oct 28, 2022

    As someone who has been researching, writing and teaching about women’s and girls sports for the past 15 years, I wasn’t surprised by the recent revelations of sexual and verbal…

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    The Intersection of Agricultural Eye Injuries and Food Security

    Global Washington Oct 28, 2022

    ChandBee is an agricultural worker and mother living outside of Hyderabad, India. When she began to lose her sight at 25, it became increasingly difficult to work in the fields…

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  • Philanthropists Funding Clean Energy Solutions Need to Value Community Voices

    Smart Cities Dive Oct 27, 2022

    City residents that could be most impacted by decarbonization policies may not be part of the conversation as they’re developed. The creators of the Equitable Building Electrification Fund believe that decision-making power in…

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  • Study Indicates Rate of Dementia in Older Adults in the U.S.

    Futurity Oct 27, 2022

    Nearly one in 10 Americans over 65 has dementia, according to the first nationally representative study of cognitive impairment in more than 20 years. The study also finds that another…

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  • Understanding More About the Surging Outbreak of RSV

    The Conversation Oct 26, 2022

    Respiratory syncytial virus, more commonly known as RSV, sends thousands of children to the hospital every year in the U.S. But during September and October 2022, health professionals across the…

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  • Community Schools: Building Collaborative Learning Environment

    Brookings Oct 25, 2022

    Learning loss, mental health crises, escalating economic inequity … school district leaders recognize that these challenges students and families are facing, particularly after the pandemic, require strategies and enhanced coordination…

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  • 2022 California Standardized Test Results Show Little Progress in the Face of COVID

    EdSource Oct 25, 2022

    In another measure of the pandemic’s corrosive impact on learning, California students performed significantly worse in 2022 on Smarter Balanced, the state’s standardized test. Fewer than half of students met…

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  • How Communities Are Increasing Access to COVID Home Tests

    Futurity Oct 25, 2022

    Community-based groups can be more effective than health care organizations at expanding access to at-home COVID-19 tests in underserved communities, according to a new study. In a survey of Black…

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