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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 Jersey Patient Notification Act. The New Jersey law, authored and passed in New Jersey in 2017 and...

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 behalf of my community. There were no paths clear to me as to how I could be a part of the changemaki...

Heller's 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 Racial Equity (IERE).  Madison explains the need for a new name and describes IERE’s new initiativ...

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—a rule that was set to expire Jan. 31, but one President-elect Joseph Biden will extend when he a...