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1 month ago | 
provincetownindependent.org | Sam Pollak
WELLFLEET — As housing costs have made the Outer Cape increasingly unaffordable for young families, local schools are recruiting students from other towns to combat dwindling enrollment. The Wellfleet Elementary School Committee voted on April 8 to offer places in its kindergarten to third-grade classrooms in the upcoming school year to students from across the Cape through the state’s school choice program.
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1 month ago | 
jacobin.com | Sam Pollak
President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the nation’s workplace safety agency is a former safety executive for companies that were repeatedly cited by the same agency for worker illnesses and deaths amid extreme heat, according to federal records reviewed by the Lever.
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1 month ago | 
levernews.com | Sam Pollak
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1 month ago | 
levernews.com | Sam Pollak
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Mar 29, 2025 | 
levernews.com | Sam Pollak
Good things are happening! Thousands are turning out to fight corporate power, unexpected states embrace child tax credits, the high court protects the press, and death penalties get challenged in Republican states.
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Mar 22, 2025 | 
levernews.com | Sam Pollak
Good things are happening! Thousands of federal workers head back to work, two red states are ahead of the clean energy curve, a judge shields climate grants, and all 50 states push for the right to own your stuff. President Donald Trump’s administration said in court filings that it is working to rehire nearly 25,000 fired federal workers at 18 different agencies after federal judges in California and Maryland ruled their terminations were illegal.
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Mar 15, 2025 | 
levernews.com | Sam Pollak
Good things are happening! Trump goes surprisingly antitrust on Google, the high court lets states fight about the climate, medical research can’t be stopped, and a carbon capture pipeline gets captured. When it comes to antitrust enforcement, there are some signs that President Donald Trump’s administration isn’t entirely abandoning President Joe Biden’s mission.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
levernews.com | Sam Pollak
Good things are happening! Trump is told to pony up the cold cash, vital care for youth moves forward, tycoons get taxed for the “missing middle,” and water gets revolutionized in the desert. President Donald Trump’s attempts to swat trillions in federal funding away from state projects he doesn’t like have been stalled in court, and some states say that they are starting to see money trickle in again. In Pennsylvania, over $2 billion for clean energy initiatives are being restored.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
truthout.org | Sam Pollak
This article was originally published by The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. When a private equity giant bought California-based grocery chain Cardenas Markets in 2022, grocery workers like Maria Vargas saw their hours slashed. “I can’t cover my expenses anymore,” said Vargas, who, like almost a third of all renters in the country, spends more than half her paycheck on rent.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
jacobin.com | Sam Pollak
When a private equity giant bought California-based grocery chain Cardenas Markets in 2022, grocery workers like Maria Vargas saw their hours slashed. “I can’t cover my expenses anymore,” said Vargas, who, like almost a third of all renters in the country, spends more than half her paycheck on rent. When Vargas asked her employer for more hours or better wages, she was told the company couldn’t afford it.
