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    Many Farmworkers Must Work Despite Extreme Heat

    Harvest Public Media Aug 22, 2021

    People who work outside increasingly risk their income, illness and even death as climate change ramps up extreme heat. That’s according to a first-of-its-kind study from the Union of Concerned Scientists, titled…

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    How California Farmers are Coping with the Drought

    The Counter Aug 21, 2021

    My food trajectory is pretty simple. Chicago: tired, overcooked produce. Ann Arbor: tired, overcooked produce. Santa Monica, California, Technicolor year-round abundance that I am still not used to after most of…

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    Community Organizing Against Disenfranchisement in Houston

    Neighborhood Funders Group Aug 21, 2021

    Houston often doesn’t receive funder attention until major climate change-fueled disasters: Hurricane Harvey in 2017, the Deer Park Chemical Fires in 2019, the 2020 Texas deep freeze, even the persistent…

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    Reforming SSI to Benefit People with Disabilities

    YES! Magazine Aug 20, 2021

    Maintaining financial independence and self-sufficiency remains a constant struggle for the elderly and people living with disabilities in the United States. Today, people with disabilities and many seniors struggle to…

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    Leveraging Data to Make College More Affordable

    Urban Institute Aug 20, 2021

    It is commonly cited that financial aid for college has not kept pace with the rising cost of pursuing a degree. But too often this trend is simplistically measured. Though the problem…

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    Effective Apprenticeship Models in Higher Education

    EdSurge Aug 19, 2021

    The journey toward a career often starts at a fork in the road. One path points toward on-the-job training. The other takes a detour through college. They have different benefits…

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    Strategies to Reduce Bias in Entrepreneur Recruitment

    ideas42 Aug 18, 2021

    Application processes—whether for jobs, funding, or other opportunities—are full of potential moments for bias to occur. In launching our venture studio, Ventures for Shared Prosperity, we knew that recruiting the right…

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    Want to find more workers? Make it easier to hire people with criminal records.

    Blue Meridian Aug 16, 2021

    “In a year bookended by a racial reckoning and a sputtering recovery, social sector leaders are driving a vision of a just economic system that serves everyone. That’s why the…

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    Blue Meridian commits $8 million to Northwest Dayton Partnership

    Blue Meridian Aug 16, 2021

    “The partnership will fund impactful programs, projects, and collaborations designed to provide neighborhood-based two-generation supports that advance racial and economic equity, such as early childhood education, quality K-12 schools, and…

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    Creating Jobs for Kenyan Youth in Industries Without Smokestacks

    Brookings Aug 14, 2021

    Unlike in much of the developed world, the promise of manufacturing to spur economic growth and jobs in Africa has remained elusive, with most of the continent’s economies facing deindustrialization.…

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    How CDFIs Can Build on Momentum of 2020

    LISC Aug 13, 2021

    For impact investors, one of the many takeaways from the last 18 months should be this: incrementalism will not get us where we need to go. That is true on…

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    The Root Causes of the Increase in Unaccompanied Children at the Border

    Save the Children Aug 13, 2021

    The number of unaccompanied children taken into border authority custody after crossing the U.S. Southern Border is growing dramatically by the day. In January and February alone, there were 15,000 unaccompanied children…

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