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New York is the second state to pass a law ensuring big polluters will play for climate damages. Vermont passed a similar law over the summer—a year after a federal emergency was declared across the state after a storm dumped two months’ worth of rain in just two days, causing historic and devastating flooding. Jamie Henn, director of Fossil Free Media, said the Climate Change Superfund Act “kicks open the door for more states to follow.”
Over the past year, Grist has examined publicly available data to locate trust lands associated with land-grant universities seeded by the Morrill Act. We found 14 universities that matched this criteria. In the process, we identified their original sources and analyzed their ongoing uses. In all, we located and mapped more than 8.36 million surface and subsurface acres taken from 123 Indigenous nations. This land currently produces income for those institutions.
L’Herrou said agencies such as the Virginia Department of Social Services are now classifying some situations as “Poverty Adjacent Neglect,” acknowledging that families often lack the resources they need. She advocated for solutions that address these root causes, including raising the minimum wage, strengthening programs such as SNAP and TANF, and expanding access to affordable child care.
A record number of Americans are living outside. Cities have responded by removing encampments from public spaces, a practice commonly referred to as “sweeps.” In the process, workers often take people’s belongings — including important documents, survival gear and irreplaceable mementos. Over and over, people across the country told ProPublica they were devastated by such losses. We gave them notecards so they could explain in their own words how the sweeps have affected them.
Dr Ciarán Murphy and fellow researchers from Buckinghamshire New University, Bath Spa University and The Open University were granted the funding award – one of the most significant for social work research nationally and the largest Edge Hill’s social work department has ever received – by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
The Treasury needs to rethink public spending to focus on prevention of the UK’s health, crime and homelessness problems after cuts of up to 78% under the Tories, a report from Demos and the Health Foundation has found.