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Portland State University and the University of Washington are splitting $1.1 million to study wildfire smoke.

Portland State University and the University of Washington are splitting $1.1 million to study wildfire smoke.

Silent calamity: The health impacts of wildfire smoke Articles on U.S. wildfires don’t often show a photo of someone gasping in a hospital bed or felled by a heart attack. Yet an increasing body of evidence suggests that the biggest societal impacts of increasing wildland fire are happening in our own bodies, the result of tiny particulates spewed in vast amounts. Millions of people across the western U.S. coughed and hacked their way through the summer and autumn of 2020, when some of the region’s worst fires on record ripped across the landscape. It’s too soon to know the full range...

Email The path to winning appointment to Long Island’s highly paid police forces has been more than three times tougher for Black would-be officers than for white applicants and twice as tough for Hispanic job seekers in recruitment by the Nassau and Suffolk County departments, a Newsday investigation has found. With thousands more people seeking jobs than the number needed by the two forces, the investigation revealed that since 2012, each county’s hiring process rejected minorities at rates that exceeded a federally established benchmark used to detect evidence of unlawful discriminati...

Higher pay will pay for itself 1/2 2/2 × If companies pay more, it will result in lower employee turnover and higher productivity and profits Enterprises, and even governments, often seek to hold down the pay of employees in an effort to reduce costs. This effort to reduce pay to cut costs long pre-dates pandemic “lockdownomics” and won’t disappear when the pandemic ends. Post 9/11, almost all airlines — except Southwest — resorted to lay-offs and begged for large wage concessions from unions. When US-based automakers struggled to turn a profit, they negotiated two-tier wage str...