SHEFFIELD â Isabella Cardinali Kemp is passionate about local food, composting and recycling. Anything that makes the Earth cleaner.
Now, the Mount Everett Regional High School senior is âsuper excitedâ to spread her passion in the larger community with a virtual series of six speakers to expand on problems and household solutions for water-quality declines, the importance of local food and âthe interconnectivity of soil.â
Kemp, 18, had this idea, and she and Cecelia Caldwell, 17, got cracking during the coronavirus pandemic to line up six influential speakers for the free âSustainable Speaker Series â Our Relationship to Land and Water: Conversations with Local and National Sustainability Leaders,â which begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday with a talk about sustainable systems on college campuses by Ezra Small, the campus sustainability manager at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and a Mount Everett alumnus.
25 Investigates: As COVID-19 vaccines remain in short supply, MA providers wasted thousands of doses Ted Daniel
Though demand for COVID vaccines continues to outpace supply, 25 Investigates found the coveted injection is being wasted instead of going into the arms of Massachusetts residents.
Investigative reporter Ted Daniel reviewed Department of Public Health (DPH) data to see how many of the doses were wasted and learn why the waste occurred.
The data shows 1204 doses, mostly of the Moderna vaccine, were reported wasted as of Feb. 22. That represents a small fraction of the 1.5 million shipped to the state so far.
Massachusetts is one of only a handful of states to make information on COVID vaccine waste publicly available.
More than 17 million Americans could see their income rise if the $15 minimum wage now in the COVID relief bill passes Congress. We hear from some of those who would be impacted by a minimum wage increase, and Stephanie Sy speaks with two economists with different perspectives on the topic.
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Judy Woodruff:
More than 17 million Americans could see their income rise if the $15-an-hour minimum wage in the COVID relief bill now passes Congress. For workers and for employers, there s a lot at stake.
Let s hear now from some of them. And then Stephanie Sy will look more closely at the debate behind it.
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It may surprise you that it came in 1969 from Richard Nixon, a Republican who embraced cultural conservativism.
As a scholar who studies poverty and inequality, I have been contemplating that chapter in U.S. history while following recent proposals from President Joe Biden and other Democrats, and Sen. Mitt Romney - a Republican - to help cover the costs of raising children.
Richard Nixon fumbled his attempt to secure benefits for American kids.
While the success of one of these measures or something similar is not assured, I believe that, thanks to the pandemic, there’s a good a chance the United States will finally begin building the foundation that Nixon called for and that families still need.