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Unsmart, Unsafe Cities for Informal Workers: Effective Policy Change Will Need Better Data Water Scarcity

Unsmart, Unsafe Cities for Informal Workers: Effective Policy Change Will Need Better Data

How can urban health policy be effective when the data on residents’ and workers’ leading causes of premature death, illness and injury is inadequate? A new project with partners in India seeks to fill the data gaps and support informal workers’ well-being. Globally, data shortfalls have led to massive underestimates…
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February 27, 2020
Pete Buttigieg is not popular with black voters in South Carolina. Miss Black America is trying to change that. Old-Age Poverty

Pete Buttigieg is not popular with black voters in South Carolina. Miss Black America is trying to change that.

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February 27, 2020
What, exactly, does Congress understand about the world’s most threatening glacier? Global Warming

What, exactly, does Congress understand about the world’s most threatening glacier?

An edge of Thwaites Glacier. Image: NASA / James Yungel / Edited by Stuart Rankin By Mark Kaufman2020-02-27 11:00:00 UTC Some 8,000 miles from the elegantly carpeted U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., lies an eerie, dark, underwater place — a place that threatens to redraw maps all over the globe. This…
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February 27, 2020
The West’s Final Countdown? Brexit

The West’s Final Countdown?

With the US presidential election approaching, no one can say they didn't foresee the possibility of Donald Trump winning a second term – an event that would pose an existential threat to the very idea of "the West." So why are European leaders spending their time squabbling over agriculture subsidies?…
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February 27, 2020