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Ohio Issue 1: Attacks on parental rights do not appear in amendment
By Susan Tebben On October 16, 2023 The topic of parental rights does not appear in Ohio Issue 1 on the ballot Nov. 7. There is no mention of denying any rights to parents in the process of enshrining reproductive rights like abortion, contraception, miscarriage care and infertility treatment into the Ohio Constitution. “I don’t…
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Tribal Health Workers Aren’t Paid Like Their Peers. See Why Nevada Changed That.
By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez On August 21, 2023 FALLON, Nev. — Linda Noneo turned up the heat in her van to ward off the early-morning chill that persists in northern Nevada’s high desert even in late June. As the first rays of daylight broke over a Christian cross on the top of a hill near…
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Addressing rural health through community informed research, outreach
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute and College of Medicine lead initiatives to support land-grant mission By Zachary Sweger On October 10, 2023 HERSHEY, Pa. — As Pennsylvania’s sole land-grant institution, Penn State faculty, staff and students are working to help improve the lives of rural Pennsylvanians through research collaborations, outreach events and training…
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One of last survivors of Oklahoma race massacre dies at 102
On October 10, 2023 One of the last three known Black Tulsans who lived through a 1921 race massacre in the Oklahoma town has died at 102, his family said. Hughes Van Ellis, who sued the city of Tulsa seeking reparations for one of the deadliest acts of racial violence in U.S. history, died on…
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Michigan schools have added more than 1,300 mental health professionals since 2018 with more funding
By Hannah Dellinger On October 12, 2023 Michigan added more than 1,300 mental health professionals to its schools in the last five years, according to state records. During a national shortage of mental health professionals who serve youth and an ongoing child and adolescent mental health crisis exacerbated by the pandemic, Michigan schools hired an additional 1,316 staff to…
Read MoreEducation workforce report shows challenges facing Michigan’s K-12 schools
Teacher absences and vacancies are impacting student learning and school operations as teacher absence rates increased and the substitute teacher fill-rate declined. By Jennifer Chambers On October 9, 2023 A year-long study examining the challenges facing Michigan’s K-12 workforce found that teacher absences and vacancies are impacting student learning and school operations as teacher absence…
Read MoreSevere hunger persists in Haiti as violence intensifies in the capital
By Claire Pressoir and Tanya Birkbeck On September 9, 2023 PORT-AU-PRINCE – Violence caused by armed groups, economic slowdown and climate-related effects continue to drive high levels of hunger in Haiti, according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report issued last week. Despite a reduction in the number of people facing acute…
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Gaza’s desperate civilians flee or huddle in hopes of safety, as warnings of Israeli offensive mount
By Mike Corder and Julia Frankel On October 14, 2023 DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Desperate Palestinians scrambled for escape from northern Gaza on Saturday or huddled by the thousands at a hospital in the target zone in hopes it would be spared, as Israel intensified warnings of an imminent offensive by air, ground and…
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Gaza: Nowhere to go, as humanitarian crisis reaches ‘dangerous new low’
On October 13, 2023 The development follows an announcement by UN Spokesperson, Stéphane Dujarric, just before midnight Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, that UN representatives in Gaza had been told by Israeli military liaison officers everyone living north of Wadi Gaza should relocate to southern Gaza within 24 hours. Some 1.1 million people would be expected to…
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