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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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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. Our initial focus was on counties with poverty and unemployment rates that exceeded statewide averages. Designing a Curriculum Childcare is, for obvious reasons, highly regulated.

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How Investors Can Shape AI for the Benefit of Workers

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Nearly one in five home healthcare aides lives in poverty. Currently, about half of teachers’ time is spent not with students but on grading, lesson planning, and curriculum development, as well as other administrative tasks.

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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.

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Intelligent Copywriting with AI

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Additional Tricks to Writing with AI Temperature Skip the Pleasantries Addressing the AI Piling the Task Load Layering Copy Let the AI teach itself 1. Teaching children to love reading benefits everyone: When children learn to love reading, they become more engaged in school and are more likely to achieve academic success.

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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? It has become clear to us that spaces are both required and missing that cultivate deep healing and transformation to help leaders move through this shadow work and rise to the leadership this moment demands.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Are poverty wages less miserable because your boss is Black? In the Bronx, co-op organizers have partnered with public school teachers to develop a curriculum where high school students “learn by doing.” 28 Yet an approach that prioritizes “Black faces in high places,” Pérez insists, is insufficient. 49 There are many examples of this.