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  • These Young People Are Preparing to Protect Abortion Access in a Post-Roe US

    Resource Generation Jun 21, 2022

    In 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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  • Bolstering Child Well-being with Policies to Reduce Poverty

    The Hechinger Report Jun 21, 2022

    Anew study from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) explores some of the positive influences of tax credits on child wellbeing as policymakers debate whether to expand them. The study, published this…

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  • Black Americans Continue to Face Rampant Wealth Inequity This Juneteenth

    Equitable Growth Jun 20, 2022

    Following nationwide protests across the United States in 2020 against police brutality, the push for federal recognition of Juneteenth gained momentum, with the U.S. Congress enacting legislation in the summer of 202l…

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  • Philanthropy’s Role in Advancing Guaranteed Income

    Northern California Grantmakers Jun 20, 2022

    The idea of guaranteed income has a long history but its modern, progressive origins in the U.S. are rooted in the racial and gender justice movements of the 1960s. Guaranteed…

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    How Homelessness Compounds Disasters

    National Alliance to End Homelessness Jun 20, 2022

    Over the last week, large swaths of the nation have seen the first major emergency heat wave of the summer. And it’s safe to say that it won’t be the last…

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    What Rising Rents and Inflation Mean for Homelessness

    National Alliance to End Homelessness Jun 20, 2022

    Rising rents and persistent inflation increase the risk for people becoming homeless and serve as barriers to people who are trying to exit homelessness. In a 2020 study, researchers at…

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  • Racial Discrimination Impacts the Number of Days Incarcerated

    PLOS Jun 20, 2022

    Objective Racial discrimination and racial identity may compete to influence incarceration risk. We estimated the predicted days incarcerated in a national US sample of Black, Latino/Latina, and American Indian/Alaska Native…

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  • Upzoning and Zoning Policy Reform in the Wake of the Pandemic

    Brookings Jun 20, 2022

    As cities across the country grapple with soaring housing costs, the need for zoning reform is more pressing than ever. Cities are in desperate need of more housing, but exclusionary…

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  • The Importance of Collecting LGBTQ Student Data

    The 74 Jun 20, 2022

    With an unprecedented rise in the number of youth identifying as LGBTQ — and equally unprecedented efforts to curtail their rights — a leading national advocacy group is calling on…

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  • Decades of Research Document the Detrimental Health Effects of BPA

    The Conversation Jun 19, 2022

    Whether 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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  • Investing in Black Migrants Starts With Community

    Nonprofit Quarterly Jun 19, 2022

    Black migrants—asylum-seekers, refugees, and immigrants—are often neglected in funding conversations about immigrant justice. The Black Migrant Power Fund (BMPF) is a new community-led fund that aims to change this by connecting Black,…

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  • The Role of Climate in Location of Coral Reefs

    Environmental News Network Jun 19, 2022

    The new study, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates how changes in temperature and plate tectonics, where the positions of Earth’s continents were in very different positions than today, have determined…

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