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In the years since the Supreme Court rejected Kivalina’s appeal on May 20, 2013, the community’s search and rescue team has faced increasing climate disasters: ‘We just can’t adapt this fast.’
It would be a wasted opportunity if our political leaders came back again in six months without a long-term plan about how to fund and improve the system.
A national dental care program is welcome news, but raises several ‘billion-dollar’ questions about how the program will work and what will be covered. Here are seven principles to guide decisions.
A food policy expert explains how school lunches changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and what’s wrong with going back to the normal system now.
Hurricane Michael left a jumbled mess of downed trees. Cleaning it up is even harder than it sounds, and now dead trees are burning.
After another devastating wildfire year in the West, the Biden administration has a plan to ramp up forest thinning and prescribed burns. Two foresters explain why these projects are so important.
The infrastructure bill being debated in Congress looks like a small but genuine down payment on a more climate-friendly transportation sector and electric power grid. What comes next is crucial.
The minutiae of bureaucratic policy and procedure perpetuates colonialism and undermined a fully Tŝilhqot’in-led pandemic response.
Satellites can already spot a new fire within minutes, but the information they beam back to Earth isn’t getting to everyone who needs it or used as well as it could be.
More than most other countries, the non-profit sector in Canada relies on government funding. Yet there is a shocking lack of transparency.
A proposed ‘historic’ investment in schools that serve low-income children would also give the federal government more power over America’s schools, a political scientist argues.
Rural health care will have to transform to survive.
US cities and states are responsible for the vast majority of K-12 funding.
Biden, Sanders, Warren and other candidates are calling for far more federal spending for schools in low-income areas.
Biden, Sanders, Warren and other candidates are calling for a substantial and unprecedented spending boost.
Australia relies on Indigenous people to meet our conservation goals, but they’re short-changed by federal funding.
If undocumented immigrants choose not to fill out the questionnaire, then the official population of several states would deflate, costing them House seats and federal funding.
An Obama administration veteran offers some insights from his experience about driving massive increases in clean energy.
Lots of academic scientists collaborate with federal employees and resources on their research projects. And at the moment they can’t. A climatologist explains the bind they’re in.
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Assistant Professor of Education Finance and Policy, University of Washington
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Washington State Climatologist and Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
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William J. Perry Fellow in International Security, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
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Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
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Assistant Professor of Public Administration, North Carolina State University
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
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Vice Dean and Director of Dentistry, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto
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State Policy Director, Farley Health Policy Center; Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
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Pediatrician and Founding Chair, Department of Population Science and Policy, Southern Illinois University
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Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health and Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Professor, Sociology, University of Alberta
