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The Curious Joy Of Being Wrong — Intellectual Humility Means Being Open To New Information And Willing To Change Your Mind

Published by jason@omahadail... on Thu, 01/04/2024 - 10:42pm

Mark Twain apocryphally said, “I’m in favor of progress; it’s change I don’t like.” This quote pithily underscores the human tendency to desire growth while also harboring strong resistance to the hard work that comes with it. I can certainly resonate with this sentiment.

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Grassroots Groups Help Medicaid Recipients Regain Lost Coverage

Published by jason@omahadail... on Thu, 01/04/2024 - 10:39pm

Eight months after states started dropping millions of low-income families from Medicaid rolls, grassroots groups say they are leading the push to re-enroll people denied coverage for bureaucratic reasons.

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Savvy Nonprofits Get Creative Amidst Financial Concerns

Published by jason@omahadail... on Thu, 01/04/2024 - 10:35pm

Tens of millions of people participated in Giving Tuesday this year, raising $3.1 billion in a single day for charities worldwide.

While these numbers may sound promising, they represent only a modest 0.6% increase over last year’s giving, which falls considerably short of the current 3.2% annual inflation rate.

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The $10 Billion Charity No One Has Heard Of

Published by jason@omahadail... on Wed, 12/20/2023 - 5:00am

The United Nations Sustainable Development Forum begins, Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. A donor-advised fund devoted to supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has leapt from being a relatively minor charity to one with an asset size comparable to behemoths like the Andrew W. Mellon and David and Lucile Packard foundations.
(Richard Drew / AP Photo)

A donor-advised fund devoted to supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals has leapt from being a relatively minor charity to one with an asset size comparable to behemoths like the Andrew W. Mellon and David and Lucile Packard foundations.

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EXPLAINER: How Can Catholic Priests Bless Same-Sex Unions?

Published by jason@omahadail... on Wed, 12/20/2023 - 3:00am

ROME (AP) — The Vatican document explicitly saying Catholic priests can bless same-sex unions lays out the conditions for what such blessings can, and cannot, involve.

The overall goal is to make it abundantly clear to the couple and those around them that the blessing in no way resembles a marriage. This is because the Catholic Church teaches that marriage is a lifelong union between a man and a woman.

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Nebraska’s $600,000 Juvenile Justice Federal Grant Follows Multi-Year Dry Spell

Published by jason@omahadail... on Wed, 12/20/2023 - 2:00am

LINCOLN — Nebraska is to receive a $600,000 federal award to help prevent delinquency and protect youths in the juvenile justice system, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

States can use the funds for a variety of youth services, including job training, mental health, substance abuse treatment and school-based programs to prevent truancy.

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Government And Nonprofit Workers Are Getting Billions In Student Loan Debt Canceled Through A Public Service Program

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 12/13/2023 - 5:00am

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which the George W. Bush administration created in 2007 to encourage people to work for the government and nonprofits, has grown significantly during Joe Biden’s presidency.

To qualify, borrowers must currently work for the government or a nonprofit.

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How A Group Of Grandparents Is Mobilizing To Push Back Against Moms For Liberty

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 12/13/2023 - 4:00am

When the parental rights group Moms for Liberty kicked off its second “Joyful Warriors” summit in Philadelphia in June, it did not do so without fierce opposition. Hundreds of demonstrators showed up to protest the organization labeled an “extremist group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its efforts to rid schools of materials that highlight the nation’s history of racism or LGBTQ+ issues.

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States Strive To Get Opioid Overdose Drug To More People

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 12/13/2023 - 2:00am

Posing as shoppers, a team of researchers from the University of Mississippi called nearly 600 pharmacies across the state and asked a simple, yes-or-no question: “Do you have naloxone that I can pick up today?”

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Freedom Reads, National Book Foundation, Center For Justice Innovation Launch First Major US Book Prize To Be Judged Exclusively By Incarcerated People

Published by Nikki Palmer on Wed, 12/06/2023 - 5:00am

NEW HAVEN, Conn. —December 4, 2023 — Freedom Reads, the National Book Foundation, and the Center for Justice Innovation announced the launch of the Inside Literary Prize, the first-ever US-based literary prize awarded exclusively by currently incarcerated people. The prize will be awarded in June 2024 to one exceptional book by a jury of 300 incarcerated individuals from a dozen prisons across the nation.