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🌡️ Despite the Trump administration’s plans to repeal more than 60 workplace safety regulations, one important one is quickly moving forward: a long-awaited rule to protect workers from heat stress.
🏥 The leading professional association for gynecologists in the U.S. announced it will no longer accept federal funding, saying that Trump administration policies prevent it from providing evidence-based guidance.
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A guaranteed income program helps formerly incarcerated parents find stability and rebuild relationships with their children
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Employment Opportunities’ Returning Citizens Stimulus program provided more than 10,000 formerly incarcerated people across 28 cities with monthly payments of up to $2,570.
Five years later, an assessment showed that even temporary, short-term cash assistance payments can lead to benefits like reducing parole violations, which often lead to reincarceration.
The program was particularly beneficial for parents: with recipients saying it helped them take the steps needed (like finding a home) to reconnect with their children after they were released.
Why is this good news? An estimated 80% of incarcerated women are mothers, and about 58% of them have children under 18 years old. Because of the cost of prison and jail phone calls, and challenges with in-person visits (women are incarcerated an average of more than 2 hours’ driving distance from their families), staying connected while incarcerated is difficult.
While that also needs to change, providing this kind of support upon release helps families reconnect and helps end recidivism.
Students in Denver are transforming a school lawn into a sustainable landscape that will dramatically reduce water use
The Neighborhood Resilience Corps’ Summer Climate Adaptation Academy is a summer program that provides both climate science education and hands-on experience in learning sustainable landscaping techniques.
And instead of sleeping in this summer, 13 teenagers from a local high school converted 2,500 square feet of Kentucky bluegrass into a “water-wise” landscape that includes 70 drought-tolerant plants.
This landscaping approach reduces water consumption by about 60% compared to traditional grass lawns, and trees help cool the surrounding area by up to 10 degrees.
As someone who actually really liked working the meat alternatives into recipes I’d otherwise have used ground beef or turkey for — I didn’t really have any qualms with it. But I also know folks have big feelings about it, so...
Was there anything you didn’t (or still don’t!) like about plant-based meat alternatives?
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