Giving Compass’ Take: • The Refresh Working Group highlights 5 policy focus areas for regulation the responsible use of technology in every area of the food supply chain. • What role…
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Click here for more.Preventing and ending homelessness must include both specialized homelessness services and nontargeted resources — housing, employment, education, and health care — that can help people achieve housing stability and go on to pursue…
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Giving Compass’ Take: • Harry J. Holzer explains the importance of workforce development policy, and highlights available tools that the United States could leverage. • How is equity related to…
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COVID-19 has had a disproportionate effect on low-income, communities of color, but conversations about racial disparities mask the real public health emergency – racism. Poor access to healthcare and bias…
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Click here for more.People all over the world are enduring more unprecedented effects of climate change, from debilitating winter storms in Texas to deadly glacier bursts in India. Without much greater action to stabilize our climate,…
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Click here for more.We have heard for too long that there is no true solution to homelessness, with excuse after excuse on why we just can’t do it. Well, guess what? During this…
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Click here for more.In the midst of a freezing cold winter storm that left millions of Texans without power or heat, Republican Governor Greg Abbott appeared on Fox News on Tuesday to bash…
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Click here for more.The Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) is deeply concerned about the winter storm’s impact on communities of color, people living in poverty and other underserved communities. While it cannot go unnoticed…
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Click here for more.On Tuesday, the Houston Fire Department said it had responded to 90 calls for carbon monoxide poisoning in the past 24 hours, and the official number of cases reported in Harris County,…
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Click here for more.Young people increasingly are leading the way on climate change and environmental justice by pushing governments and companies to take stronger action to address the climate crisis. Some are working in advocacy…
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Click here for more.Redlining and Preventing Home Ownership Beginning in 1934, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) bolstered existing segregationist tactics by declining to underwrite homes in predominantly Black communities. The FHA justified this official policy, known as redlining, by describing Black…
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Click here for more.While electric vehicles hold big promise in 2021, another aspect of decarbonizing transportation could get major support this year: reducing car driving. Cutting down on car trips isn’t about guilt-tripping…