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Sunflowers

yaskhan

I sprinkle stardust on 
Van Gogh’s flowers
and feel the sun’s warmth in their yellow heartbeat.


#haiku # senryu

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Millions More Kids Going Hungry Since GOP, Manchin Killed Expanded Child Tax Credit

A new analysis out Friday confirms that the number of U.S. households with kids that report not having enough food to eat has surged in the months since corporate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia joined Senate Republicans in refusing to extend the expanded Child Tax Credit benefit beyond mid-December.

“Continuation of the advance CTC payments could help children avoid food insufficiency, with immediate and lifelong personal and societal benefits.”

Data from the Household Pulse Survey (HPS), a nationally representative internet survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, shows that from April 27 to May 9, 15% of households with children reported food insufficiency—defined as sometimes or often not having enough food to eat in the past week. In early August, the percentage of families with kids that reported struggling with hunger was roughly 9.5%.

Food has become more expensive in recent months as a handful of corporate grocery giants and meat, egg, and dairy conglomerates have raised prices while cutting frontline worker pay and raking in record profits amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. But Manchin and the GOP’s decision to allow the enhanced CTC benefit to expire at the end of last year is making it even harder for millions of families to make ends meet.

Source: Millions More Kids Going Hungry Since GOP, Manchin Killed Expanded Child Tax Credit

Avian Flu Diary: NYC Confirms Nation’s 2nd Monkeypox Case

Masks can protect against monkeypox, as well as other viruses circulating in New York City, such as COVID-19. The Department continues to recommend masks in public indoor settings. As a precaution, any New Yorkers who experience flu-like illness with swelling of the lymph nodes and rashes on the face and body should contact their health care provider.
Monkeypox is rare but can spread through close contact with an infected person or animal. This includes via respiratory droplets – usually after prolonged contact — body fluids or other forms of close contact, such as sharing clothes or other materials that have been used by someone who is infectious.
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While the risk of contracting the virus via casual contact is probably quite low, over the past decade we’ve seen increasing evidence that Monkeypox is becoming more transmissible. Source: Avian Flu Diary: NYC Confirms Nation’s 2nd Monkeypox Case

(Eco)nomics and climate change

Darcy Hitchcock

The science of climate change is clear. The economic path to fix it isn’t yet. So Juliet Schor, an economist and sociologist at Boston College, is releasing a series of videos exploring how we might change economics to address the climate crisis.

Here’s the trailer. You can find more videos as they are released at the reference link below the trailer. She’s releasing more episodes over time.

Climate change is the greatest market failure of all time.

Juliet Schor

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/videos/eco-nomics

She claims that if the global North were subject to the same climate impacts as the South, we’d already have more robust policies and actions. She also says that the rich countries should stop trying to maximize GDP, we should “focus on getting rich on another dimension: time.”

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