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Foundation for Economic Education Posts Commentary: FEE at the 2026 Economics Olympiad
DETROIT, Michigan, Aug. 29 -- The Foundation for Economic Education posted the following commentary by Victoria Doyle, graduate from Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico:
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FEE at the 2026 Economics Olympiad
Our delegation of young economists on the world stage.
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Earlier this month, FEE sent 10 top-scoring students to compete in the International Final Round of the Economics Olympiad, held at the International Olympic Academy in Ancient Olympia, Greece. Through FEE's newly launched Americas Challenge, students from across the region gained access to one of the world's premier economics
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DETROIT, Michigan, Aug. 29 -- The Foundation for Economic Education posted the following commentary by Victoria Doyle, graduate from Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico:
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FEE at the 2026 Economics Olympiad
Our delegation of young economists on the world stage.
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Earlier this month, FEE sent 10 top-scoring students to compete in the International Final Round of the Economics Olympiad, held at the International Olympic Academy in Ancient Olympia, Greece. Through FEE's newly launched Americas Challenge, students from across the region gained access to one of the world's premier economicscompetitions, where they strengthened their knowledge of economics, finance, and public policy while engaging with peers from 32 countries. The experience helped participants sharpen their analytical skills, broaden their global perspectives, and build connections with like-minded young leaders. The delegation's outstanding performance--including a second-place overall finish, a first-place win in the Financial Policy Challenge, and seven individual medals--reflected both the students' dedication and FEE's success in expanding access to high-quality economics education and developing the next generation of economic thinkers.
The Economics Olympiad was founded in 2016 to promote economic education among high school students around the world, and it has grown rapidly since. In 2026 alone, 63 countries participated in the school round of the competition, with more than 160,000 students sitting for the first qualifying test.
This year marked FEE's first involvement in the competition with the launch of the Americas Challenge, a qualifying regional round designed specifically to give students across the Americas a pathway to the International Final Round. The response to the Americas Challenge exceeded expectations, with more than 1,400 students from over 128 schools in 10 countries taking part in the initial School Round, an online exam administered during the last two weeks of February. From that pool, the top 100 scorers were invited to an in-person testing event in May hosted at Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala City. FEE then selected the 10 highest-scoring students from that round to travel to Greece to compete in the International Final Round and represent the Americas Challenge.
FEE's 10-student delegation delivered a standout performance, placing second overall among all national and regional delegations and taking first place in the Financial Policy Challenge, a dedicated track that tests students' applied policy skills. Individually, 7 of FEE's 10 students placed among the top 50 competitors worldwide. Leading the way was Izabella Wan, who earned a gold medal and placed fourth overall among 147 competitors. Impressive as the results were, the Economics Olympiad is designed to do more than crown winners; it is meant to inspire students to deepen their economic knowledge so that they may better understand the world they will one day help lead.
Izabella put it best in her own words:
My name is Izabella Wan, and I'm a student at Hunter College High School in New York, USA. I first got into economics because I wanted to understand economic phenomena, such as inflation, that I saw around me. I think that economics is important because it is a tool that helps policymakers determine what policies actually cause particular outcomes, providing evidence about which programs are most effective at solving pressing issues like poverty and economic development.
This year, I competed in the Economics Olympiad for the first time. After making it past the school round, I traveled to Guatemala and then to Greece for the intercontinental and international finals. There, I met intelligent and inspiring students and guest speakers from around the world, encountering perspectives completely different from mine. Throughout my Economics Olympiad journey, FEE has been an integral part of my experience. FEE created the pathway for me and other students from the Americas to qualify for the International Final Round and provided useful prep materials. At the International Final Round, after three days of testing across microeconomics, macroeconomics, and finance, I earned a gold medal and placed 4th overall.
Outside of the Economics Olympiad, I lead a nonprofit organization I cofounded a couple of years ago called Girls for Econ, which provides free economics education to girls around the world through courses, workshops, and educational resources. As someone who has been lucky enough to have access to economics education as a high school student, I wanted to give other girls that same opportunity and inspire them to pursue economics.
The success of this year's Americas Challenge and the delegation's strong showing in Greece demonstrate the impact of FEE's mission to expand access to economic education for students throughout the Americas. With participation already outpacing expectations in its first year, FEE looks forward to building on this momentum and continuing to prepare the next generation of economic thinkers for the world stage.
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Victoria holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations with a minor in Sustainable Development Cooperation from Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico.
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Original text here: https://fee.org/articles/fee-at-the-2026-economics-olympiad/
FFRF Warns DOJ Seeks to Force Taxpayers to Fund Religious Proselytizing
MADISON, Wisconsin, Aug. 29 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release:
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FFRF warns DOJ seeks to force taxpayers to fund religious proselytizing
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is condemning a sweeping new Department of Justice legal opinion that seeks to dramatically expand the ability of religious groups to use federal taxpayer dollars for all sorts of religious activities.
The Aug. 25 memorandum from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, titled "Constitutionality of Religious Restrictions on the Use of Federal Funds," claims that federal
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MADISON, Wisconsin, Aug. 29 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release:
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FFRF warns DOJ seeks to force taxpayers to fund religious proselytizing
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is condemning a sweeping new Department of Justice legal opinion that seeks to dramatically expand the ability of religious groups to use federal taxpayer dollars for all sorts of religious activities.
The Aug. 25 memorandum from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, titled "Constitutionality of Religious Restrictions on the Use of Federal Funds," claims that federalrestrictions preventing taxpayer dollars from being used for explicitly religious purposes are presumptively unconstitutional. The opinion essentially dictates that the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause trumps the Establishment Clause, which Thomas Jefferson famously explained builds "a wall of separation between church and state."
"The First Amendment does not require the government to bankroll prayer, preaching or proselytizing, and FFRF will vigorously oppose efforts to turn federal programs into taxpayer-funded ministries," says FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor. "Faith-based organizations are free to practice and promote their religion, but religious freedom does not come with a right to have taxpayers pick up the tab."
The opinion focuses on federal programs administered by the Department of Health and Human Services, including programs involving child care, substance abuse treatment, welfare services and other social services. Existing federal laws still restrict the use of direct government funding for "sectarian worship, instruction, or proselytization." HHS regulations require explicitly religious activities to be offered separately in time or location from federally funded services and make participation voluntary.
The memo complains, for example, that a church operating a federally supported soup kitchen cannot conduct communal prayer as part of the taxpayer-funded meal service. Nor can a religious organization providing federally funded employment or family programs incorporate religious teachings into those programs. The Office of Legal Counsel contends that those safeguards discriminate on the basis of religion.
Those implications extend far beyond soup kitchens.
The opinion states that religious recipients cannot constitutionally be required to "forgo[], segregat[e], or bifurcat[e] their religious activities" in order to participate in a generally available federal program. It argues that a secular organization may promote its values through a federally funded sex education program, for example, so a religious provider must likewise be permitted to teach its religious views about sexuality.
Perhaps most shocking, the memo offers the example of a government-funded STEM program. While the government could limit funding to STEM education, the opinion asserts that it would still be "obligated to allow religious providers to integrate their faith into STEM instruction," including by teaching "the relationship between faith and science or the theological basis for mathematics."
"That example lays bare just how extreme this theory is," says FFRF Deputy Legal Director Liz Cavell. "Equal eligibility for a government benefit is one thing. Claiming a constitutional right to convert the government-funded program itself into a vehicle for religious teaching is something else entirely."
The opinion relies heavily on the Supreme Court's recent decisions in Trinity Lutheran v. Comer, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue and Carson v. Makin, which prohibit governments from excluding religious institutions from certain generally available public benefit programs. But the DOJ opinion goes significantly further. Carson, for instance, involved tuition assistance reaching religious schools through private parental choice. The memo acknowledges that distinction but declares that the mechanism by which government funding reaches a religious institution is "constitutionally irrelevant."
The memo similarly attempts to sweep aside longstanding Supreme Court precedent recognizing special Establishment Clause concerns when the government makes direct payments to religious institutions. Rather than point to a Supreme Court decision expressly overruling that precedent, the Office of Legal Counsel calls the traditional distinction between direct and indirect government funding "fruit of the poisoned Lemon tree." (This is a reference to the Lemon Test, which the current Supreme Court recently abandoned and which declared that to be constitutional, a government action or program required a secular purpose, should neither advance nor inhibit religion and must avoid excessive government entanglement with religion.)
FFRF warns that abandoning that distinction between direct and indirect funding will transform federal social service programs into government-financed vehicles for evangelism. FFRF identifies serious threats to social service recipients:
* The programs implicated by the opinion serve some of society's most vulnerable people. A person seeking food, shelter, child care, suicide prevention or addiction treatment should not have to navigate taxpayer-funded religious exercises to obtain government-supported assistance.
* The memo targets protections against religious discrimination. It would erase existing HHS rules prohibiting recipients of direct federal assistance from discriminating against beneficiaries because of their religion, religious beliefs, refusal to hold a religious belief or refusal to participate in a religious practice.
* The opinion objects to a federal child care provision barring discrimination, characterizing those protections as burdens on religious exercise. Currently, certain heavily government-funded religious providers may not discriminate on the basis of religion in specified employment and admissions decisions.
Religious organizations could increasingly claim both a constitutional right to conduct religious activities with taxpayer funding and a religious right to discriminate while administering publicly funded programs.
The opinion's historical analysis is equally troubling. The memo invokes early federal programs that financed Christian missionaries working among Native Americans, including federal support for clergy, religious instruction and church construction. These shameful programs are hardly evidence of a settled constitutional tradition permitting government-funded religion; they were part of a broader federal policy using Christianity to suppress Indigenous religion, peoples and cultures, and advance explicitly sectarian aims that are constitutionally indefensible today.
Most immediately, the opinion could pave the way for HHS to stop enforcing statutes Congress enacted. The Office of Legal Counsel concludes that the religious restrictions are unconstitutional and severable from their underlying programs, and expressly contemplates HHS adopting a policy of nonenforcement and reporting that decision to Congress.The threat also extends beyond HHS. The opinion repeatedly frames its conclusions broadly, declaring that restrictions on the anticipated religious use of funds in "generally available federal funding programs" are presumptively unconstitutional.
FFRF will closely monitor HHS for changes to its regulations, grant requirements and beneficiary protections, as well as any decision to refuse enforcement of existing federal law.
"James Madison, the primary architect of our godless Constitution, famously (and successfully) argued that citizens should not be forced to pay 'even three pence' in support of religious establishments. He'd be rolling in his grave at the memo's outrageous distortion of constitutional law," Gaylor concludes.
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation is a U.S.-based nonprofit dedicated to defending the constitutional principle of separation between state and church and educating the public on matters relating to nontheism. With about 41,000 members, FFRF is the largest association of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics and humanists) in North America. For more information, visit ffrf.org.
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Original text here: https://ffrf.org/news/releases/ffrf-warns-doj-seeks-to-force-taxpayers-to-fund-religious-proselytizing/
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WLF Urges Supreme Court to Clarify Limits of CERCLA Liability
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Washington Legal Foundation issued the following news release:
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WLF Urges Supreme Court to Clarify Limits of CERCLA Liability
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(Washington, DC)-Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review of a Ninth Circuit decision that dramatically expands the scope of recoverable damages in key environmental cases.
The case arises from a claim brought by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 [Category: Law/Legal] -- The Washington Legal Foundation issued the following news release:
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WLF Urges Supreme Court to Clarify Limits of CERCLA Liability
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(Washington, DC)-Washington Legal Foundation (WLF) today urged the U.S. Supreme Court to grant review of a Ninth Circuit decision that dramatically expands the scope of recoverable damages in key environmental cases.
The case arises from a claim brought by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and LiabilityAct (CERCLA), the so-called Superfund law. Under CERCLA, the federal, state, and tribal governments are authorized to bring cases against Superfund owners and operators for injuries derived from the "loss of natural resources" after the release of a hazardous substance. The Tribes prevailed in the Ninth Circuit on the argument that a community's cultural disconnection from a damaged natural resource constitutes a recoverable injury.
WLF's brief explains why that's wrong. Cultural-loss injury isn't contemplated by the statute, which was designed to ensure the rapid restoration of damaged air, land, or water. And since cultural loss can't be predictably priced or insured against, the Ninth Circuit's rule invites essentially random damages awards. That uncertainty will unduly deter beneficial economic activity.
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Original text here: https://www.wlf.org/2026/08/28/communicating/wlf-urges-supreme-court-to-clarify-limits-of-cercla-liability/
OMRF marks 80 years of scientific discoveries
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Aug. 28 -- The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation posted the following news:
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OMRF marks 80 years of scientific discoveries
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Most mornings, the Gaylord Pavilion at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is relatively empty, with the occasional staff member or patient passing through.
But on Friday morning, that space was anything but empty.
Hundreds of boisterous OMRF employees, all donning identical T-shirts, gathered for group photos to commemorate the foundation's 80th birthday. "What a moment!" said OMRF President Andrew Weyrich, Ph.D., surrounded by
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OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Aug. 28 -- The Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation posted the following news:
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OMRF marks 80 years of scientific discoveries
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Most mornings, the Gaylord Pavilion at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is relatively empty, with the occasional staff member or patient passing through.
But on Friday morning, that space was anything but empty.
Hundreds of boisterous OMRF employees, all donning identical T-shirts, gathered for group photos to commemorate the foundation's 80th birthday. "What a moment!" said OMRF President Andrew Weyrich, Ph.D., surrounded bystaffers who laughed and whooped in celebration.
"The fact that OMRF exists today," Weyrich said, "is a tribute to our entire state."
On Aug. 28, 1946, Oklahoma's secretary of state granted OMRF's corporate charter, and the nonprofit foundation was officially born. But the real work would come over the next few years, when 7,500 Oklahomans made gifts that enabled OMRF to open its doors in 1950.
"It's an amazing story," Weyrich said. "We're the only biomedical research institute in America that got its start with a statewide campaign."
What began in 1946 as a two-person operation has grown into an internationally recognized research institute. OMRF now employs more than 500 staff members working to develop new ways to prevent and treat diseases of aging, autoimmune illnesses, cancer and heart disease.
The foundation treats thousands of patients living with diseases like multiple sclerosis and lupus, and a trio of life-changing drugs born in OMRF labs are now available in hospitals and clinic throughout the U.S.
That track record resonates with the foundation's staff, who have voted OMRF one of Oklahoma's Top Workplaces every year since independent consulting firm Energage began surveying the state's workforce in 2013.
Debi Gibson is marking her 50th year at OMRF. She began as a data entry clerk and rose to become the foundation's payroll manager.
For her, the foundation's mission of helping people live longer, healthier lives serves as a north star. She was particularly moved when an OMRF scientist spoke about his efforts to save infants with a rare blood disorder. "I remember thinking, 'Who wouldn't want to be part of this?'," she said.
That sentiment is shared by Lisa Nelms, OMRF's accounting director. Like Gibson, Nelms is marking her 50th anniversary at OMRF this year.
"If you let it, OMRF becomes part of you," Nelms said.
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Original text here: https://omrf.org/omrf-marks-80-years-of-scientific-discoveries/
Lumina Foundation Issues Commentary: Why Americans Should Care When International Students Stop Coming
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Aug. 28 -- The Lumina Foundation issued the following commentary by chief data and research officer Courtney Brown:
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Why Americans should care when international students stop coming
For decades, America has enjoyed an extraordinary competitive advantage that we rarely talk about: many of the world's most talented people have wanted to study here.
We have gotten so accustomed to this advantage that we seem to assume it will always exist. It won't, and the warning signs are beginning to flash. International graduate enrollment fell in 2025, and although undergraduate
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Aug. 28 -- The Lumina Foundation issued the following commentary by chief data and research officer Courtney Brown:
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Why Americans should care when international students stop coming
For decades, America has enjoyed an extraordinary competitive advantage that we rarely talk about: many of the world's most talented people have wanted to study here.
We have gotten so accustomed to this advantage that we seem to assume it will always exist. It won't, and the warning signs are beginning to flash. International graduate enrollment fell in 2025, and although undergraduateenrollment continued to grow, it did so more slowly than the year before. Application data suggest fewer international students are considering American colleges, too.
According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, international graduate enrollment fell 5.9 percent in fall 2025, a decline of roughly 10,000 students after years of steady growth. International undergraduate enrollment grew 3.2 percent, less than half the growth rate of the previous fall.
Common App reported in August that first-year international applicants fell 10 percent during the 2025-26 application cycle. The decline was remarkably widespread: nine of the 10 countries sending the most international applicants saw decreases. Applications from India fell 15 percent, and those from Nigeria fell 21 percent. Meanwhile, domestic applicants increased 4 percent.
This isn't just about international students, and it isn't just about universities. The consequences extend beyond college campuses, reaching American workers, businesses, researchers, students, and communities.
International students support American jobs
International students contributed $42.9 billion to the U.S. economy and supported more than 355,000 American jobs during the 2024-25 academic year, according to NAFSA: Association of International Educators. For every three international students studying in the United States, NAFSA estimates that one U.S. job is created or supported.
That money doesn't stay inside university gates. International students rent apartments. They eat at restaurants. They buy groceries, furniture, and clothes. They use transportation and other services. Their spending supports jobs throughout the communities where they live.
What happens when fewer of them come?
A recent NAFSA analysis projects that the United States could see as many as 111,000 fewer international students this fall, resulting in as much as $3.4 billion in lost economic activity and putting nearly 40,000 American jobs at risk.
But the bigger loss may be harder to see.
International students are deeply woven into America's innovation economy. A recent NBER study examining international master's students and U.S. startups found that greater international enrollment led to more companies being created after graduation. And the effect wasn't limited to international students themselves: researchers estimate that 30 to 45 percent of the increase came from American graduates who studied alongside them.
In other words, international talent doesn't simply add to American talent. It can help multiply it.
That matters at a moment when the United States is racing to lead the world in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, and other emerging industries.
The people who come here to study aren't simply filling seats in classrooms. They are working in laboratories, contributing to discoveries, developing new technologies, and helping create companies.
International students also contribute something harder to quantify but no less important: they help prepare American students for the world they are entering.
Most American college students will never study abroad. But they will graduate into an economy where their colleagues, customers, and competitors span the globe. Learning alongside classmates from other countries gives them experience working with people who bring different experiences, perspectives, and approaches to problem-solving.
America has to compete for talent
International education isn't only about educating international students.
It is also about educating Americans.
Yet at precisely the moment international interest in American higher education appears to be weakening, new policies and visa uncertainty are making studying here more difficult and less predictable.
The Department of Homeland Security has finalized a rule ending the longstanding "duration of status" approach for international students and exchange visitors. Students will instead be admitted for fixed periods and may need to apply for extensions if their studies take longer. At the same time, prospective students have faced visa delays and other uncertainties about whether they will be able to study and remain in the United States.
The United States can enforce immigration law while also recognizing that delays and uncertainty can come at a cost. And we should also consider whether we're making it more or less likely that talented students from around the world will choose America.
That question matters more today because students have more high-quality options than they once did.
American colleges and universities remain among the best in the world. But excellence in higher education is no longer concentrated here. The 2027 QS World University Rankings include universities in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, and Australia among the world's top 20, alongside leading U.S. institutions.
That is good for students and good for the world. But it also means America has to compete for talent.
A 2026 OECD analysis of international students in higher education shows just how much that competition has grown. Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom have all experienced strong growth in international enrollment over the past decade.
And students don't choose a country based on university rankings alone. The OECD finds that international students weigh an institution's quality and reputation alongside the country's safety, affordability, opportunities to work while studying, visa requirements, career prospects, and their ability to work after graduation.
In other words, talented students aren't simply asking, Where can I get a great education?
Increasingly, they can get one in many places.
The question is whether they will continue to choose America.
For generations, one of America's greatest advantages has been its ability to attract ambitious people from around the world, but that advantage is not guaranteed.
International students have more choices than ever. If they increasingly choose to study, conduct research, and build businesses elsewhere, the economic and intellectual benefits will go with them.
That is an American advantage we should be very careful about giving away.
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About the Author
Courtney Brown is the foundation's chief data and research officer and leads Lumina's strategic planning, research, evaluation, data, and learning efforts
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Original text here: https://www.luminafoundation.org/news-and-views/why-americans-should-care-when-international-students-stop-coming/
Hispanic Access Brings Together 200+ Leaders to Put Communities at the Center of California's 30x30 Goals
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The Hispanic Access Foundation issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2026:
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Hispanic Access Brings Together 200+ Leaders to Put Communities at the Center of California's 30x30 Goals
More than 200 community leaders, government officials, conservation advocates, academics and philanthropic partners gathered today at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for Pathways to 30x30 and Beyond: Urban Nature, a convening focused on the role communities and cities can play in advancing California's goal of conserving 30% of its lands and waters by 2030. Hosted
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 -- The Hispanic Access Foundation issued the following news release on Aug. 27, 2026:
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Hispanic Access Brings Together 200+ Leaders to Put Communities at the Center of California's 30x30 Goals
More than 200 community leaders, government officials, conservation advocates, academics and philanthropic partners gathered today at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for Pathways to 30x30 and Beyond: Urban Nature, a convening focused on the role communities and cities can play in advancing California's goal of conserving 30% of its lands and waters by 2030. Hostedby Hispanic Access Foundation, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and UCLA Sustainability, the convening brought leaders across sectors together to strengthen connections, elevate community-driven solutions and explore how urban conservation can protect biodiversity, build climate resilience and connect more families to nature.
The event spotlighted Pathway 9 of California's 30x30 strategy, which recognizes the importance of protecting "in-between" spaces--including farms, ranches, suburban neighborhoods and urban areas--that connect natural areas and support biodiversity. Through conversations highlighting efforts across the City and County of Los Angeles and throughout California, participants explored how local leadership, cross-sector partnerships and community advocacy can help shape the decisions, policies and investments that affect communities and conservation.
By creating space for community leaders to exchange ideas, build relationships and engage directly with decision-makers, the convening highlighted the importance of ensuring that the people closest to these issues have a meaningful role in shaping solutions.
"Latino leaders already have the knowledge, relationships and solutions to address the challenges facing their communities. Our role is to walk alongside them--connecting leaders to one another and to the systems where decisions are made so they can turn community-driven solutions into lasting change," said Maite Arce, President and CEO of Hispanic Access Foundation. "Achieving 30x30 requires communities to be more than participants in conservation. They must have the opportunity and influence to help shape what conservation looks like in the places they call home."
That approach is central to Hispanic Access Foundation's work to cultivate Latino leadership and strengthen the relationships and networks that help communities turn local knowledge and solutions into collective action and lasting impact.
Participants included Wade Crowfoot, Secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency; Randall Winston, Deputy Mayor of Public Works for the City of Los Angeles; Rita Kampalath, Chief Sustainability Officer for the County of Los Angeles; Miguel Luna, Chief Administrative Officer for the Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Mission Indians; Anthony Redblood Morales, Chief of the Gabrieleno Tongva-San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians; Lori Bettison-Varga, President and Director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County; Maite Arce, President and CEO of Hispanic Access Foundation; and Nurit Katz, Chief Sustainability Officer at UCLA.
Pathways to 30x30 and Beyond: Urban Nature underscored that lasting conservation solutions are strongest when communities are connected, their leadership is valued and they have opportunities to help shape the decisions that affect the places they call home.
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Original text here: https://www.hispanicaccess.org/news-releases/3134-hispanic-access-brings-together-200-leaders-to-put-communities-at-the-center-of-californias-30x30-goals
Health Foundation Responds to Latest ONS Figures on NEETs
LONDON, England, Aug. 28 -- The Health Foundation issued the following statement by policy and research manager Sam Atwell:
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The Health Foundation responds to latest ONS figures on NEETs
Responding to the latest ONS figures showing that 13% of 16 to 24-year-olds are not in education, employment or training (NEET), Sam Atwell, Policy and Research Manager at the Health Foundation, said:
'While today's figures point to a slight fall in the number of 16 to 24-year-olds not in employment, education or training (NEET), they also show that too many young people are still struggling to establish
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LONDON, England, Aug. 28 -- The Health Foundation issued the following statement by policy and research manager Sam Atwell:
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The Health Foundation responds to latest ONS figures on NEETs
Responding to the latest ONS figures showing that 13% of 16 to 24-year-olds are not in education, employment or training (NEET), Sam Atwell, Policy and Research Manager at the Health Foundation, said:
'While today's figures point to a slight fall in the number of 16 to 24-year-olds not in employment, education or training (NEET), they also show that too many young people are still struggling to establishthemselves in work or education. Spending long periods neither earning nor learning can have lasting consequences for young people's health, incomes and future opportunities.
'Poor health is an increasingly important part of this picture. Our figures show that nearly half of young people who are NEET now report a health condition that limits their ability to work, making it harder for many to find and sustain the right opportunity.[1]
'If we want to meaningfully prevent young people falling out of work or education, government needs to act earlier through stronger support in schools and better help to overcome barriers and find their next step. This must be matched by enough good entry-level jobs for young people to start and build their careers.
'Alan Milburn's final report into NEETs and Peter Fonagy's review into the prevalence of mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions, both due to report this autumn, should prompt government to build a system that gives young people the support and opportunities they need to manage their health and participate in work or education.'
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Notes to editors
1. Why are a growing number of young people who are NEET reporting work-limiting health conditions? (https://www.health.org.uk/reports-and-analysis/analysis/why-are-a-growing-number-of-young-people-who-are-neet-reporting-work)
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Original text here: https://www.health.org.uk/media-office/press-releases/the-health-foundation-responds-to-latest-ons-figures-on-neets
