Capital & Main

3 days ago | capitalandmain.com | Aaron Cantú

Only weeks ago, new science had buoyed state legislation to calculate the costs of climate change in California and force fossil fuel companies to pay for it. A study in Nature published last month took the reported emissions of major oil companies and modeled their effects on temperatures, finding their pollution led to $14 trillion in worldwide economic losses due to extreme heat alone.

1 week ago | capitalandmain.com | Audrey Carleton

Charles Suppon has big plans for the Tunkhannock Area School District. At any given time, the northeastern Pennsylvania district’s chief operating officer can rattle off statistics about fields in which its schools excel: arts, AP classes and softball, as well as on-the-job training programs for future farmers, welders and more.

1 week ago | capitalandmain.com | Mark Kreidler

For Maria Paredez, the slashing of Medicaid funding is no political football, or some abstract argument emanating from Republicans in Congress about the size of government. It hits her where she lives: a small house in a small town in Tulare County, where she struggles to get from one month to the next. Paredez is not a victim, though — she’s an employee.

1 week ago | capitalandmain.com | Marcus Baram

Due to the termination of $11 billion in public health grants, a grant to a program that provides Colorado residents with access to behavioral health and substance abuse support was disrupted, reports Healthcare Dive:For [Racquel] Garcia, it looked like the early end of one of HardBeauty’s grants providing behavioral health and substance abuse support to women through pregnancy, birth and postpartum in Colorado’s Western Slope, a region with primarily rural and frontier counties.

1 week ago | capitalandmain.com | Marcus Baram

Among those impacted by the Trump administration’s mass layoffs are disabled workers, who worry that they won’t be able to get such jobs in the private sector, reports the Associated Press:Spencer Goidel, a 33-year-old federal worker in Boca Raton, Florida, with autism, knew what he could be losing when he got laid off from his job as an equal employment opportunity specialist at the IRS.