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The EPA Launches Final Strategy on Lead Mitigation

NonProfit Quarterly

Communities at Risk In an article about childhood lead exposure and disparities, the Kaiser Family Foundation writes that “areas with higher blood lead levels are associated with low home ownership, high poverty, and residents who are a majority people of color.” which is the basis for the new sessions.

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Reconnecting Economics Education with Today’s Global Realities

NonProfit Quarterly

He said, [Our] failure to facilitate a pluralism of approaches in teaching economics is a deprivation of basic students’ rights, indeed citizen rights leading…to a narrow, blinkered, and distorted education. The resources for creating this revised curriculum already exist. There are others who have also taken up this mantle.

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The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era

NonProfit Quarterly

How do we shift scarcity mindsets that are rooted in deep and real experiences with poverty and oppression? Mair, and Derek Angus, “Applying Syndemic Theory to Acute Illness,” Journal of the American Medical Association 327, no. How do we stand in our power in terms of what we need and deserve for our lives and our communities?