Philadelphia to pay $9.25 million settlement in George Floyd protest lawsuits
Philadelphia city officials have announced a $9.25 million settlement with hundreds of people in lawsuits challenging the police response to protests in 2020 that followed the police custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
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Large floods drive changes in cause-specific mortality in the United States - Nature Medicine
Analyses of death records over the two decades in the United States reported greater mortality from infectious and parasitic diseases, injuries and respiratory and cardiovascular diseases associated with exposures to flooding events, particularly floods caused by tropical cyclones and heavy rain.
Trump executive orders and actions: By the numbers
President Trump took office Monday, marking the beginning of a new era in Washington. The changing of the guard was, perhaps, marked most significantly by sweeping new executive actions that will h…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story | TED
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice ...
Urban inequality, the housing crisis and deteriorating water access in US cities - Nature Cities
Meehan and colleagues study access to running water in large US cities since 1970, finding that the 2008 financial crisis worsened household ‘plumbing poverty’ in many cities. This disproportionately impacted households of color and generally squeezed lower-income households into more precarious living situations.
The University of Arizona partners with the city of Tucson to shed light on challenges in Tucson when it comes to poverty. Several U of A undergraduate students displayed their findings on poverty.