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Apple has spent $1.5 billion to help California’s housing crisis

As part of its continuing support of affordable housing, Apple says that it has now deployed nearly $1.5 billion to help 40,000 Californians find a home.

Apple has been supporting affordable housing in its home state since 2019, and right from the launch of the project has committed to investing $2.5 billion. Following 2020’s $400 million, and how in 2021 the total spent rose to over $1 billion, Apple has today announced how it has continued to support still more people and organizations.

Source: Apple has spent $1.5 billion to help California’s housing crisis

Marii Freire

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

Se a mulher tem que brigar por seus direitos ( mesmo que estes estejam assegurados constitucionalmente), significa que na prática, “a coisa não funciona “, não é isso? Evidente que é. Um exemplo, a sua fala. A mulher não pode falar nem sobre violência, sem que esteja seja tolhida. Você pode prestar atenção que, a medida que uma mulher fala sobre o tema, ou mesmo ” denuncia” esta, há um homem que vai mandar ela calar a boca, ou terá outro que dirá o que a mesma ” deva ” fazer, não é absurdo? Os novos ares do mundo jurídico, nos oferece proteção! Mas na prática, a situação é outra. Quando a própria sociedade, juízes, delegados, advogados e outros, não olharem para essa situação com o devido respeito e atenção, a lei não protege os direitos da mulher como na prática deve ser protegido.

Marii Freire.

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Good People Doing Good Things — Stacey Buckner

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Tissue warning for today’s ‘good people’ … when I first read about Stacey Buckner it left me literally in tears.  This woman … she cares so much … well, just read her story, but get your box of tissues first.  Oh … you don’t have any handy … well here, I always keep a few spares …

In 2008, a stroke and subsequent traumatic brain injury (TBI) nearly killed Stacey Buckner. Today, she says her miraculous road to recovery led her to the outreach work that has become her life’s mission.

“I was released from the hospital in a wheelchair. I still wasn’t completely walking on my own. I had a stutter. No one wanted to hire me.”

Buckner worked to regain her speech and motor skills, and with the help of an organization that supports people with disabilities, she was ultimately placed in a job at the Fayetteville VA…

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