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Democracy

  • Newsfluencers: The Role of Creators in a Changing Local Media Landscape

    Social Currant and New Media Ventures Aug 15, 2025

    It’s no secret: the way people get their news is changing fast. According to Pew Research Center, one in five Americans now say they regularly get their news from influencers…

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    Centering Farmers in the Future of Global Food Policy

    Food Tank Aug 14, 2025

    We need participatory law-making, where farmers, women, youth, and other underrepresented voices are actually part of the process.

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    How Declining Enrollment Is Reshaping Public Education

    The 74 Aug 14, 2025

    Moon: A new analysis shows these trends vary widely by race, grade level, geography, even schools. What that could mean for the future.

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    When Everyday Travel Becomes a Deportation Risk

    The Marshall Project Aug 14, 2025

    Many people with little or no criminal record have been swept into the administration’s immigration dragnet since January, an analysis of deportation data shows.

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    An Education-First Approach to Boosting Recycling

    Smart Cities Dive Aug 12, 2025

    With misinformation and contamination on the rise, Louisville, KY partnered with Recycle Coach to optimize education and equip residents with the tools to recycle right.

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  • Indigenous Communities’ Fight for Solar Power in a Shifting Policy Landscape

    Grist Aug 12, 2025

    As federal programs are frozen or eliminated, Indigenous communities are seeking new ways to fund and finish urgently needed renewable energy plans.

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    UN Talks About Ending Plastic Pollution Meet a Towering Representation of Inaction

    PBS Aug 11, 2025

    Delegates to the treaty talks pass by the sculpture daily, drowning in plastic, as a reminder of their responsibility to solve the plastic pollution crisis.

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    Breaking the Cycle of Violence in Prison

    The Marshall Project Aug 8, 2025

    “When you grow up in a culture of violence, that doesn’t just disappear,” writes Rashon Venable.“We, as prisoners, have to take active steps toward rehabilitation.”…

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    6 Charts That Show the Scale of the Global Plastics Crisis

    Grist Aug 8, 2025

    Research shows the extent of plastic pollution today — and why the U.N. is negotiating a treaty to keep it from getting worse.

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    Harnessing the Public Health Benefits of a Food-As-Medicine Approach to Nutrition

    Food Tank Aug 8, 2025

    FreshRx Oklahoma is transforming nutrition-based care and improving health outcomes through their innovative Food is Medicine programs.

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    How Excluding Undocumented Immigrants From Census Harms All Students

    The 74 Aug 7, 2025

    If fewer people are counted, federal funding for schools, which is based on census data and child poverty rates, would shrink, experts say.

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    How 5 Cities Are Utilizing Congestion Pricing to Reduce Gridlock

    Smart Cities Dive Aug 7, 2025

    New York City joined other major global cities that have implemented tolling programs to reduce traffic in select areas in 2025. Other U.S. cities are considering similar plans.

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