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Maxwell stressed the importance of transformation and “the losers” in relation to positive development. 

NJ Patient Notification Law Introduced by Congress to Help Prevent Opioid Addiction Nationally News provided by Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Representative David Trone (D-Md.), along with Reps. Guy Reschenthaler (R-Pa.), Teresa Leger Fernandez (D-N.M.), and David McKinley (R-W.V.), has introduced the bipartisan  Opioid Patients Right to Know Act to help prevent opioid addiction across the country that is based on the success of the New ...

Many fail to realize that creating change can be easier and faster when you look a little closer to home. Boston Women’s March, 2017. (Carly Hagins / Flickr) Like most Americans, my upbringing did not prepare me for advocacy work. As a child in Fall River, Massachusetts—a working class, post-Industrial mill city—the term “lobbying” had no use in my vocabulary and simply sounded lofty and inaccessible. I pictured members of Congress, miles away from Massachusetts, making decisions on b...

Hellers Institute on Assets and Social Policy is renamed to reflect this racial justice inflection point February 08, 2021 Maria Madison joined the Heller School as associate dean for equity, inclusion and diversity in 2017, and became director of the Institute on Assets and Social Policy in fall 2020. Among her first tasks as director was to conceive a new vision and to co-create a new name for the institute. Earlier this month, the team announced a new title: the Institute for Economic and Ra...

New presidential administration will likely bring some student loan debt cancellation As a new presidential administration takes office, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren hopes to cancel some student loan debt. Canceling that debt would impact about 40 percent of Brandeis students—students who rely on federal loans to pay Brandeis’ higher than average tuition. The federal government has paused payments and involuntary collections on federal student loans due to the coronavirus pandemic...

Soon after Joe Biden is inaugurated as the next US president, he is expected to take several strong steps on the labor front aimed at reversing or remedying the policies of Donald Trump – who promised workers a lot and delivered little. But Biden’s number one priority will be to tackle the issues left in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, Marty Walsh – the Mayor of Boston and before that a labor leader...

Tanoj Meshram Tanoj Meshram, an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, is a former civil servant, anti-caste social activist and researcher with over two decades of experience at a strategic level in government, non-profits, and social movements. Currently, he is finishing his Ph.D. thesis in Social Policy from Heller School for Social Policy and Management, at Brandeis University, USA. Born and brought up in a village in Vidarbha, he has lived and worked in 11 states in India and abroad and brings that div...

Ancient Greek Coins: Archaic to Classical Bronze Age Mycenaean culture, quickly began to dominate the eastern Mediterranean Sea. For roughly three hundred years after that great Mediterranean power–centered on the city of Mycenae but with trading cities throughout the Peloponnese and Asia Minor–violently collapsed, Greece descended into a so-called dark age. Marked by the recognizable geometric artistic style that can be seen on the terracotta krater to the right. We do not have any “...

By Taylor Ann Bradford  Staff Writer Dec 28, 2020 Dec 28, 2020 With a substantial amount of financial support from the University of Baltimore, a nonprofit with roots in Gloucester will be able to further its efforts to prevent fatal overdoses through training for officers and community partners in both Massachusetts and Maine. The Police Assisted Addiction & Recovery Initiative (P.A.A.R.I.), in partnership with the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis Un...

Presider Vice President, National Program and Outreach FASKIANOS: Good afternoon and welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations Social Justice and Foreign Policy webinar series. Im Irina Faskianos, vice president for the National Program and Outreach here at CFR. As a reminder, todays webinar is on the record and the audio, video, and transcript will be available on our website, CFR.org, and on our iTunes podcast channel, Religion and Foreign Policy. As alway...