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  • Can This Unlikely Source Help with Strategic Movement Building?

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Jul 22, 2023

    What the progressive movement can learn from military strategy…

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  • “Pracademics” Are Bridging Education and Job Readiness

    The Hechinger Report Jul 22, 2023

    But as consumers increasingly call for educations that lead more directly to jobs, trends in other countries suggest that this could change, especially with the adoption of a new word, “pracademic,” to describe them.

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  • Student-Parents Need Access to Affordable Child Care

    The 74 Jul 21, 2023

    Lewis: What schools can do to help student-parents earn a degree and get a leg up on the socioeconomic ladder.

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  • UN Agencies Are Beginning to Embrace Innovation

    Stanford Social Innovation Review Jul 21, 2023

    Despite a notoriously innovation-adverse environment in UN organizations overall, a growing body of success stories are changing lives and contributing to continuous organizational learning.

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  • How To Build Movement Economies

    Nonprofit Quarterly Jul 20, 2023

    Bringing the question of movement economies to the fore not only helps shed light on the challenges in achieving structural economic change but also elevates the people who are making those changes in real time.

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  • Canada’s Worst Wildfire Season Results in Air Quality Warnings

    EcoWatch Jul 20, 2023

    Smoke from Canada’s worst wildfire season once again drifted across the border into the U.S., prompting another round of air quality alerts.

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  • This High School Training Program Is Addressing the Nursing Shortage

    The 74 Jul 20, 2023

    As COVID and other factors decimate nursing profession, a Providence high school trains students to start their careers as young as 14.

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  • The Women-led Movement for Food Justice in Schools

    The 19th Jul 19, 2023

    Women led the effort to make Minnesota one of the latest states to implement a universal free lunch program, sparked by the federal government’s pandemic response during the 2021-22 school year.

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  • Gun Violence in the U.S. Carries Both Human and Economic Costs

    Washington Center for Equitable Growth Jul 19, 2023

    Reviewing areas where the economic costs of gun violence have been most completely measured to see where costs come from and their impact on society.

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  • Pell Grants Fund Educational Opportunities for Incarcerated People

    The Marshall Project Jul 19, 2023

    After decades without, incarcerated people can now access Pell Grants. Here’s what to know.

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  • Using Green Banks to Solve America’s Affordable Housing Crisis – and Climate Change At the Same Time

    The Conversation Jul 18, 2023

    Massachusetts is establishing the first US green bank dedicated to sustainable affordable housing. Three experts in climate finance explain why better housing can help rein in global warming.

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  • Strengthening Worker Power Through Industrial Policies

    Washington Center for Equitable Growth Jul 18, 2023

    Industrial policies are more effective at supporting and lifting job quality when they are accompanied by strong collective bargaining laws and institutions.

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