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    Increased Federal Spending on Children During COVID

    Urban Institute Dec 12, 2021

    Over the past two years, Congress has enacted a series of pandemic relief bills providing federal funds to help American families, businesses, schools, governments, and other institutions regain their footing.…

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    Bob Moses and Empowered Education

    EdSurge Dec 12, 2021

    Civil rights leader and education pioneer Bob Moses (1935-2021), who died in late July, always looked at his evolving mission through the lens of citizenship and what educational processes were…

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    Mapping the U.S. Counties Where Traffic Air Pollution Hurts Children the Most

    The Conversation

    In the U.S., over 6 million children had ongoing asthma in 2016. Globally, asthma kills around 1,000 people every day – and its prevalence is rising. This condition has a…

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    Community Health and Safety Strategies

    Philanthropy News Digest

    Amoretta Morris joined The Annie E. Casey Foundation in 2013 as a senior associate responsible for overseeing the Family-Centered Community Change initiative. In 2016, she was named director of the foundation’s national community strategies, in which…

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    Single-family Zoning Reinforces Segregation in the Bay Area

    Othering & Belonging Institute

    Opening up restrictive communities to multiplex housing may be a key strategy to promote racial residential integration in the Bay Area, new research from UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute released…

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    Climate Change Demands New Energy Distributions

    Grist Dec 11, 2021

    The spring of 2019 opened with a deep chill across Cascadia. An Arctic air mass poured past the 49th parallel, simultaneously jacking up energy consumption and straining energy supplies in…

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    Indigenous Groups Lack Environmentalist Protections

    Eco-Business Dec 11, 2021

    As the COP26 climate talks neared a close, environmentalists and lawyers warned rules for global carbon markets, due to be finalised in Glasgow, lack protections to stop abuses of the…

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    Low-bracket Workers Tend to Have Less Say in Their Wages

    Washington Center for Equitable Growth Dec 11, 2021

    Understanding the various ways in which wages are set in the U.S. economy is crucial to analyzing economic activity and worker well-being. Phenomena such as wage and earnings growth, worker…

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    Beyond Infrastructure, America Runs on Nonprofits

    Independent Sector Dec 11, 2021

    On November 15, Independent Sector, alongside our extraordinary partners at KABOOM!, was proud to represent the work – and the voices – of the Nonprofit Infrastructure Investment Advocacy Group (NIIAG) at…

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    Cost Analysis of Disability Insurance

    Washington Center for Equitable Growth Dec 11, 2021

    The public debate over disability insurance has centered on concerns about individuals without severe health conditions receiving benefits. We go beyond health risk alone to quantify the overall insurance value…

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    GiveWell Will Be Giving More Going Forward

    Open Philantrophy Dec 11, 2021

    As we wrote last week, we’re substantially growing our overall giving in Global Health and Wellbeing, with the bar in that broad portfolio continuing to be set by the cost-effective, evidence-backed charities…

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    Research Shows Renewed Focus on Nonprofit Talent

    Philanthropy News Digest Dec 10, 2021

    Nearly eight in ten U.S. nonprofits (79 percent) plan to prioritize talent acquisition in 2022, up from 59 percent in 2020, a report from human resources firm Nonprofit HR finds. Based on…

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