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Upper Ohio Navigation Project Article

Upper Ohio Navigation Project

This grant helps fund a project that will expand and replace chambers at three key locks in the Ohio River System and ensure availability of water for municipal and industrial purposes as well as relieve traffic congestion.

Improving Safety, Accident Response, and Public Health in the Wake of Recent Train Derailments Article
Damaged tanks after train derailment with trees in background

Improving Safety, Accident Response, and Public Health in the Wake of Recent Train Derailments

A comprehensive response to the East Palestine derailment must include safety reforms that will reduce the frequency and severity of future derailments; improve long-term health monitoring and access to health services; and reduce or eliminate toxic chemicals, including petrochemicals, from the U.S. economy.

Kevin DeGood

Local communities are buying medical debt for pennies on the dollar—and freeing American families from the threat of bankruptcy In the News

Local communities are buying medical debt for pennies on the dollar—and freeing American families from the threat of bankruptcy

State Rep. Michelle Grim (D-OH) describes how federal funding from the American Rescue Plan is being used to wipe medical debt in Ohio. An estimated 41,000 Ohio residents will see their medical debt erased thanks to the program that is being replicated in towns and local governments across the country.

Fortune

Michele Grim

Investments in infrastructure and manufacturing are driving a revival in Ohio’s trades In the News

Investments in infrastructure and manufacturing are driving a revival in Ohio’s trades

Mike Knisley, the executive secretary-treasurer of the Ohio State Building and Construction Trades Council, describes how the Biden administration’s economic investments are boosting Ohio’s economy and expanding opportunities in the state’s building trades.

Cleveland.com

Mike Knisley

Early Learning in the United States: 2021 Fact Sheet

Early Learning in the United States: 2021

These state fact sheets provide data on access to affordable child care for families, compensation for child care providers, and economic benefits of increased public investment in early learning.

MK Falgout

State Abortion Legislation in 2021 Report

State Abortion Legislation in 2021

In 2021, the United States has seen the highest number of abortion restrictions made law in a single year, and the legal context in which this newly enacted legislation will operate is particularly tenuous.

Elyssa Spitzer, Nora Ellmann

Closing Advanced Coursework Equity Gaps for All Students Report
Tenth-grade students make programming adjustments to a robot that they are testing in a Computer Science Principles course at a Maryland high school, December 2017. (Getty/Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post)

Closing Advanced Coursework Equity Gaps for All Students

Even in high schools with similar levels of access to advanced coursework, Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students are less likely to be enrolled in advanced courses—and even when they are enrolled, they experience less success in these courses than their peers.

Roby Chatterji, Neil Campbell, Abby Quirk

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