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🏳️⚧️ Last night at the VMAs, Sabrina Carpenter used her debut performance of “Tears” off her new album to support trans rights. And while accepting the award for album of the year, Carpenter thanked and spoke to the experience of those who performed with her.
🍎 Students in the state of New York are now officially back in school, and thanks to the state’s new Universal Free Meals program, every student in the state will receive free breakfast and lunch at school.
Governments doing good
Photo: via The Irish Times
Ireland expanded its free public transit program for children 8 years old and under
Transport For Ireland, or TFI, services have been offered to kids five years old and younger — and now, Ireland is expanding that free offering to cover ages five through eight, too.
The new Child Leap Card will make 263,000 children between the ages of five and eight eligible for free travel services in the country, which include buses and rail lines.
The initiative is part of a larger government commitment to making public transit more affordable and accessible for families.
Why is this good news? We all need to visit the doctor, get groceries, and more, and people deserve equitable access to public transit to do that. For families, the cost of using public transportation can add up, putting financial strain on people looking to navigate their communities. With this initiative, Ireland removes that barrier for thousands of families.
Members of the music community are rallying to support a Utah violinist arrested by ICE.Musicians have been staging ongoing performances in protest at the Utah State Capitol and sharing their anger and concern on social media regarding ICE’s arrest of Donggin Shin, who goes by John, and a GoFundMe has raised over $70,000 to help cover the musician’s legal fees.
Housing
Photo: via Lynchburg Covenant Fellowship
This LEGO contest tasked contestants with building their dream houses. The proceeds will go to real homes for low-income families
After a landlord in Wisconsin passed away, he donated all of his rental properties to homeless people in need of housing
On July 31, the Wisconsin-based housing nonprofit Pillars received its largest property donation ever. It came in the name of Richard “Dick” Reetz, a landlord of over 50 years who died in June at the age of 97.
He donated his entire rental estate, including 20 units across 10 properties, which increased the organization’s property portfolio by 26%.
Pillars is an organization that works to relieve bottlenecks in the housing crisis by keeping people out of shelters and in stable housing. Right now, the organization manages a number of affordable housing properties near Appleton — where Reetz was a lifelong resident — and operates two crisis housing centers that serve approximately 140 people at any given time. Now, it will serve even more.
“As much as people were inspired by grief and fury, they can be inspired by hope and opportunity. That this is the beginning of a change that we desperately need.”
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