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Western Energy Alliance: U.S. House Passes Key Public Lands Energy Permitting Bill
DENVER, Colorado, June 4 -- Western Energy Alliance issued the following news release on June 2, 2026:
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U.S. House Passes Key Public Lands Energy Permitting Bill
In an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives today passed a bill to support federal employees working on oil and natural gas approvals in Bureau of Land Management offices across the West. Western Energy Alliance and the Independent Petroleum Association of America, or IPAA, today applauded the leadership of Rep. Mike Kennedy, R-Utah, for sponsoring the License to Drill Act, H.R. 7831, which reauthorizes
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DENVER, Colorado, June 4 -- Western Energy Alliance issued the following news release on June 2, 2026:
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U.S. House Passes Key Public Lands Energy Permitting Bill
In an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives today passed a bill to support federal employees working on oil and natural gas approvals in Bureau of Land Management offices across the West. Western Energy Alliance and the Independent Petroleum Association of America, or IPAA, today applauded the leadership of Rep. Mike Kennedy, R-Utah, for sponsoring the License to Drill Act, H.R. 7831, which reauthorizesthe bipartisan Permit Processing Improvement Fund (PPIF) and funds BLM field offices overseeing leasing, permitting and production. The program is set to expire in September if Congress does not get a bill to President Donald Trump in time.
"The Permit Processing Improvement Fund is 100% paid for by fees on oil and natural gas drilling permits. It's a balanced approach that Congress created to develop energy resources on public lands while supporting the federal employees who manage the process. Their roles are important because 10% of the oil and natural gas produced in the United States comes from BLM public lands," said Melissa Simpson, president of the Alliance. "Republicans and Democrats in Congress may not agree on much at the moment, but there's strong agreement on extending support for the federal employees who perform the daily work that goes into managing oil and natural gas production. We're thankful for the leadership of Rep. Kennedy in moving a bill critical to producing the oil and natural gas our country needs and gaining strong bipartisan support."
"H.R. 7831 reauthorizes a longstanding policy that is an important framework for federal land producers. IPAA has championed this concept since its origins in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 and proudly testified in support of the bill during its committee hearing earlier this year," said Dan Naatz, IPAA executive vice president and chief policy officer. "The PPIF program has garnered bipartisan support in both the House and Senate in previous reauthorizations because the concept is sound -- industry pays its own way. Extending the program preserves an industry-funded permitting system with a fee that is indexed to inflation, designed to improve agency resources, and reduce permitting delays. We applaud Rep. Kennedy's leadership and look to the Senate to follow suit."
Background
The Permit Processing Improvement Fund was created in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 as a pilot program. Following 10 years of success, Congress renewed it for an additional 10 years and expanded the program. Authorization to use drilling permit fees to fund portions of the PPIF expires in September.
Congress prioritized funding for high-volume BLM offices to support federal and tribal oil and natural gas activities. The offices are in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. The PPIF supports BLM staff working on approvals for oil and natural gas activities, including permits, rights of way, environmental analysis, sundry notices and surface use plans. The money is also used for interagency coordination with other federal agencies, staff hiring and training.
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Original text here: https://www.westernenergyalliance.org/2026/06/02/u-s-house-passes-key-public-lands-energy-permitting-bill/
[Category: Energy]
Virologist and Bioinformatician Emily Speranza Joins Texas Biomed Faculty
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 4 -- Texas Biomedical Research Institute issued the following news:
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Virologist and Bioinformatician Emily Speranza joins Texas Biomed faculty
Emily Speranza, Ph.D., first heard about Ebola virus when she was five years old.
"I remember hearing about it on the news and little me thought 'This is terrifying. I need to know everything about it so I am not so scared,'" she said. "In that process, I realized 'Wow! These viruses are actually kind of cool.'"
Deadly pathogens have held her attention ever since. Now a recognized expert in Ebola and related filoviruses,
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas, June 4 -- Texas Biomedical Research Institute issued the following news:
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Virologist and Bioinformatician Emily Speranza joins Texas Biomed faculty
Emily Speranza, Ph.D., first heard about Ebola virus when she was five years old.
"I remember hearing about it on the news and little me thought 'This is terrifying. I need to know everything about it so I am not so scared,'" she said. "In that process, I realized 'Wow! These viruses are actually kind of cool.'"
Deadly pathogens have held her attention ever since. Now a recognized expert in Ebola and related filoviruses,bioinformatics and immunology, Dr. Speranza is joining Texas Biomedical Research Institute as an Assistant Professor. She will split her time between her ongoing research and overseeing biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) studies for partners working with Texas Biomed's Applied Science and Innovation unit.
"Dr. Speranza's advanced bioinformatics skills and experience in high containment research will be an excellent complement to our team and help us expand potential collaborations, particularly in analyzing immune responses to new drugs or therapies," said Lee-Ann Allen, Ph.D., Texas Biomed Executive Vice President, Research.
Innate immune responses
Dr. Speranza's research focuses on the very first immune responses occurring in a human or animal in the first days after exposure to a severe pathogen like Ebola virus.
"We want to understand how fast can the virus replicate versus how fast can the host respond," she said. "How can we potentially leverage that information to give the host a bit of an edge?"
She uses a combination of techniques to build a very detailed view of the interaction between the pathogen and host, including animal models, single cell sequencing, high-plex flow cytometry, bioinformatics and machine learning.
"When the virus gets in, it's not just interacting with a single cell, it's in a very complex environment," she said. "We're trying to profile as much of that infection environment as possible in order to try to find pathways that maybe wouldn't be detected if we were focusing in just on one or two cell types."
Computers help parse through the massive data sets to help flag those pathways that could then potentially be targeted by drugs or therapies to help the human or animal fight off the pathogen.
An accidental math major
Dr. Speranza attended Carroll College in her hometown of Helena, Montana to pursue biology. As she completed the required math courses, a professor noticed how easily she handled the material and suggested more advanced classes to fill her schedule. This continued until Dr. Speranza realized she had taken all but two needed for a math degree, so she dual majored.
For her Ph.D., she studied bioinformatics at Boston University, which allows her to "combine my passion for biology and deadly pathogens with my math brain." She also narrowed in on infectious diseases and high containment research. Along with Ebola virus, she has worked with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Chikungunya virus, Zika virus and Francisella tularensis, which is a bacterium that causes tularemia, which can be lethal without treatment.
"I fell in love with the field of these emerging pathogens," she said. "You're always on the cutting edge because there's not a lot that we know about them. Some of them are just understudied. Some of them are new."
She completed a postdoctoral fellowship that allowed her to work with researchers at both the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) main campus in Maryland and at the BSL-4 at Rocky Mountain Laboratories. She became an NIAID independent research scholar before joining the Cleveland Clinic's Florida Research Innovation Center. As part of her research, she has worked with specialized mouse models to study specific immune response pathways, such as the Mitochondrial Antiviral-Signaling Protein (MAVS), to better understand what immune responses are protective versus promote harmful inflammation.
Deep spatial proteomics
Dr. Speranza helped develop a method to gather extremely detailed information about protein activity during infection, particularly in BSL-3 and BSL-4 labs, which require specialized protocols for safety. The method, called Opal-Plex, is part of the iterative bleaching extends multiplexity (IBEX) protocols and allows for deep spatial proteomics - instead of identifying what one or two proteins in a physical tissue sample are doing at a precise location at a specific moment during infection, researchers can observe up to 25 proteins in one sample from a BSL-4, and more than 70 from samples originating in BSL-2 labs.
By gleaning more information from one tissue, Dr. Speranza is building a fuller picture of infection dynamics.
"We're applying the same concepts for analyzing tumor micro-environments, but for infection," she said. "What is going on in the infection micro-environment, and how can we then potentially modulate it to give the host an advantage during an infection?"
She now brings this expertise to Texas Biomed, which attracted her with its unique combination of high containment labs, the Southwest National Primate Research Center and the clear synergy with other faculty on campus.
"I am really excited about the people here, where emerging pathogens is on the forefront of everyone's minds," she said.
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Original text here: https://www.txbiomed.org/news-press/news/virologist-and-bioinformatician-emily-speranza-joins-texas-biomed-faculty/
[Category: Medical]
Protect Our Care: 38.7% Spike in Vitamin A Poisonings Came Amid RFK Jr.'s Promotion of Supplement as Measles Miracle Cure
WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Protect Our Care issued the following news:
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38.7% Spike in Vitamin A Poisonings Came Amid RFK Jr.'s Promotion of Supplement as Measles Miracle Cure
While the U.S. measles crisis remains on pace to blow past last year's historically bad caseload sometime this summer, Gizmodo reports new research published in JAMA Network Open "has shown a troubling rise in public engagement with some notably ineffective and potentially toxic alternative treatments for this deadly and highly contagious disease". And surprise, surprise, Donald Trump's prolifically anti-vax health secretary
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WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Protect Our Care issued the following news:
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38.7% Spike in Vitamin A Poisonings Came Amid RFK Jr.'s Promotion of Supplement as Measles Miracle Cure
While the U.S. measles crisis remains on pace to blow past last year's historically bad caseload sometime this summer, Gizmodo reports new research published in JAMA Network Open "has shown a troubling rise in public engagement with some notably ineffective and potentially toxic alternative treatments for this deadly and highly contagious disease". And surprise, surprise, Donald Trump's prolifically anti-vax health secretaryplayed a leading role in it while Kennedy has also baselessly fear-mongered the safety of the measles vaccine to the extreme.
The researchers -- including from Harvard Medical School -- documented a major surge in public interest in such dubious alternatives following RFK Jr's FOX News interview on March 4, 2025, where he touted cod liver oil supplements and vitamin A as viable treatments for measles. Alarmingly, the study found: "Between January [1] and March [31,] 2025, America's Poison Centers reported a 38.7% increase in vitamin A exposures."
"In the middle of deadly measles outbreaks, RFK Jr. used his celebrity status to push Americans towards snake oil 'miracle' cures and away from the only proven safe and effective option: the MMR vaccine. And apparently, his misguided efforts encouraged many Americans to poison themselves for nothing," for Kayla Hancock, Director of Protect Our Care's Public Health Project: "For Kennedy, it's always any other solution but the right one. Measles continues to storm back like it's the 1800s as a direct result of vaccine smear campaigns RFK Jr has trafficked in for years. This is the time for the Health Secretary to take some responsibility and use his federal resources and power to promote the measles vaccine. And yet Kennedy's department apparently hasn't run a single public service announcement and it hasn't even come up at all on his taxpayer-funded vanity podcast. A charlatan to the end, and our public health keeps suffering for it."
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Original text here: https://www.protectourcare.org/38-7-spike-in-vitamin-a-poisonings-came-amid-rfk-jr-s-promotion-of-supplement-as-measles-miracle-cure/
[Category: Health Care]
ISSCR Celebrates Martin Pera for Transformative Leadership and Lasting Contributions to Stem Cell Reports as He Steps Down From the Journal's Editorial Team
EVANSTON, Illinois, June 4 -- The International Society for Stem Cell Research issued the following news release:
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The ISSCR Celebrates Martin Pera for Transformative Leadership and Lasting Contributions to Stem Cell Reports as he Steps Down from the Journal's Editorial Team
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and Stem Cell Reports are celebrating the remarkable contributions of Martin Pera as he concludes his long tenure with the journal following years of leadership that helped shape Stem Cell Reports into a leading voice in stem cell science and regenerative medicine.
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EVANSTON, Illinois, June 4 -- The International Society for Stem Cell Research issued the following news release:
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The ISSCR Celebrates Martin Pera for Transformative Leadership and Lasting Contributions to Stem Cell Reports as he Steps Down from the Journal's Editorial Team
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and Stem Cell Reports are celebrating the remarkable contributions of Martin Pera as he concludes his long tenure with the journal following years of leadership that helped shape Stem Cell Reports into a leading voice in stem cell science and regenerative medicine.
Dr. Pera served as the journal's second Editor-in-Chief beginning in 2018, succeeding Christine Mummery, and led the journal for six years during a period of significant growth and evolution for both the field and the publication. Under his leadership, Stem Cell Reports expanded its scientific reach, strengthened its commitment to rigor and reproducibility, and elevated the visibility of researchers and emerging voices across the stem cell community.
"Martin has been an amazing contributor to the success of Stem Cell Reports," said Janet Rossant, the journal's editor-in-chief. "His eye for the right papers that would impact the field is impeccable. And his decision to establish the Early Career Editorial Board was inspired. It brought new ideas and new perspectives to the editorial team while also giving early career investigators great new experiences. A hard act to follow!"
Among Dr. Pera's many contributions to the journal was the conception and launch of The Stem Cell Report podcast in April 2021. The podcast recently marked its five-year anniversary and has become an important platform for highlighting the people and stories behind stem cell discoveries. A strong advocate for early-career researchers, Dr. Pera championed featuring first authors on the podcast--often graduate students and postdoctoral fellows--alongside senior investigators to provide insight into the inspiration, challenges, and personal journeys behind published research.
In 2022, Dr. Pera helped launch the journal's Early Career Editorial Board, creating a mentorship and professional development pathway for rising investigators in the field. Since its inception, the initiative has welcomed 22 early-career editors who contribute strategic insight, participate in editorial review, and gain hands-on experience in scientific publishing.
Dr. Pera also oversaw important initiatives to strengthen research standards and scientific rigor within the journal. In 2023, Stem Cell Reports introduced the ISSCR Standards Checklist, based on the ISSCR Standards for Human Stem Cell Use in Research, to support transparency, reproducibility, and best practices in studies involving human stem cells.
Throughout his editorial tenure, Dr. Pera worked to recruit and cultivate an editorial team that reflected the breadth and evolution of the stem cell field. He expanded the journal's aims and scope to encompass emerging areas of science and encouraged commentary addressing scientific, ethical, and societal questions shaping the future of regenerative medicine.
While leaving the Stem Cell Reports editorial team, Dr. Pera is an active ISSCR member and continues to advance the field as a Professor at The Jackson Laboratory, where his laboratory studies self-renewal, pluripotency, and the genetic factors that influence neural regeneration and repair.
"Martin's leadership and scientific judgment are foundational to what Stem Cell Reports is today: a journal as rigorous as the science it publishes, and as connected as the community it serves. His contributions reach well beyond the journal, across the ISSCR and the field he's shaped for years," said Keith Alm, ISSCR CEO. "Thanks, Martin, for all you've done for the journal and across the ISSCR. We look forward to all that's still ahead together."
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About Stem Cell Reports
Stem Cell Reports is the open access, peer-reviewed journal of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) for communicating basic discoveries in stem cell research, in addition to translational and clinical studies. Stem Cell Reports focuses on original research with conceptual or practical advances that are of broad interest to stem cell biologists and clinicians. Stem Cell Reports is a Cell Press partner journal. Find the journal on X: @StemCellReports.
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About ISSCR
Across more than 80 countries, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (@ISSCR) is the preeminent global, cross-disciplinary, science-based organization dedicated to advancing stem cell research and its translation to medicine.
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Original text here: https://www.isscr.org/isscr-news/the-isscr-celebrates-martin-pera-for-transformative-leadership-and-lasting-contributions-to-stem-cell-reports-as-he-steps-down-from-the-journals-editorial-team
[Category: Medical]
Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities Issues Commentary: Major Step Forward for Housing in Suttons Bay
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan, June 4 -- Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities issued the following commentary on June 3, 2026, by Transportation Program Manager Carolyn Ulstad:
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A Major Step Forward for Housing in Suttons Bay
On a cool evening in early April, the meeting room at the Suttons Bay Fire Department was packed wall-to-wall. Residents, housing advocates, and local leaders gathered for what might sound like a dry zoning discussion, but what was actually a pivotal moment for the future of housing in Suttons Bay Township.
As part of its Community Design work, Groundwork has been
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TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan, June 4 -- Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities issued the following commentary on June 3, 2026, by Transportation Program Manager Carolyn Ulstad:
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A Major Step Forward for Housing in Suttons Bay
On a cool evening in early April, the meeting room at the Suttons Bay Fire Department was packed wall-to-wall. Residents, housing advocates, and local leaders gathered for what might sound like a dry zoning discussion, but what was actually a pivotal moment for the future of housing in Suttons Bay Township.
As part of its Community Design work, Groundwork has beenworking with Peninsula Housing to support their efforts to create homes that local individuals and families can actually afford.
That evening, the township planning commission painstakingly reviewed proposed zoning language for a new Neighborhood Residential District along with a request to rezone eight acres owned by Peninsula Housing on Herman Road from agricultural into the new district.
The reason why this new district being added to the local zoning is a big deal is because it creates more flexibility in the kinds of homes that can be built and allows a wider mix of housing types within a neighborhood. As an example, it opens the door for smaller homes to be built which is a critical step in reducing housing costs, since home prices are closely tied to construction costs per square foot.
For those who have spent years advocating for more housing solutions in Leelanau County, the room seemed to carry a quiet tension, waiting to see if local leaders would take action and recommend the changes. And late into the evening, they did.
The planning commission recommended approval, the proposal moved through county review, and on May 13, the township board gave final approval to both the new district and the rezoning request. This was a major win for local housing advocates, but it is only the beginning.
Turning Policy into Homes
Creating better zoning policies is essential, but policy alone does not build homes. Now, organizations like Peninsula Housing need community support to turn these opportunities into real housing for people looking to live in the area.
Peninsula Housing will present its site plan for the 980 S. Herman Road property to the township planning commission on Tuesday, June 2. The proposal includes 30 homes on the site, made up of 12 duplex units and 6 single-family homes. The duplexes will offer a mix of one and two-bedroom options, while the single-family homes will each have three bedrooms. Community support matters. If you live in the area, attending the meeting is one meaningful way to help move housing forward.
The Need Is Urgent
Despite some recent wins, the housing shortage in Leelanau County remains severe.
According to Housing North's Dashboard, the county needs 2,335 new homes by 2027, yet nowhere near that number are getting constructed, especially at prices that work for the typical person.
The average home price in the county has climbed to approximately $672,000. Housing North estimates an annual income of roughly $197,000 would be needed to afford a home at that price point, far beyond what many local workers and families earn even with what are considered "good-paying" jobs.
Since at least 2010, Michigan's Senate Fiscal Agency has shown Leelanau County to be the most unaffordable county in the state for housing and categorized it as "Seriously Unaffordable." As of 2025, more counties joined those ranks as home prices outpaced incomes post 2020, but Leelanau and Grand Traverse Counties alone moved into a new, worse category labeled "Severely Unaffordable."
Housing Impacts Everyone
Housing is not just a personal issue; it is a community issue.
When homes become unattainable, it becomes harder for schools to hire teachers, for restaurants and small businesses to stay open, and for emergency services to find firefighters and EMTs. The people who keep the community functioning every day increasingly struggle to live in the very places they serve. That affects everyone.
Housing that local workers, families, and seniors can afford strengthens the long-term vitality of a community. It helps create a balanced housing market where people across income levels can continue to live, work, raise families, and contribute locally.
Thanks to years of advocacy, partnership, and persistence, an important step forward has been taken and we look forward to seeing what may come of it!
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Carolyn Ulstad is Groundwork's Transportation Program Manager.
carolyn.ustad@groundworkcenter.org
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Original text here: https://groundworkcenter.org/a-major-step-forward-for-housing-in-suttons-bay/
[Category: Sociological]
First Focus on Children: More Than 700,000 Children Have Already Lost Food Assistance
WASHINGTON, June 4 -- First Focus on Children, an advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families the priority in federal policy and budget decisions, issued the following news release:
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More Than 700,000 Children Have Already Lost Food Assistance
Advocates urge Congress to stop the crisis
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First Focus on Children and fellow advocates are urging Congress to address a brewing crisis that has already pushed more than 700,000 children from food aid under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) since passage of H.R. 1 last year.
In a letter to leaders of the
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WASHINGTON, June 4 -- First Focus on Children, an advocacy organization dedicated to making children and families the priority in federal policy and budget decisions, issued the following news release:
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More Than 700,000 Children Have Already Lost Food Assistance
Advocates urge Congress to stop the crisis
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First Focus on Children and fellow advocates are urging Congress to address a brewing crisis that has already pushed more than 700,000 children from food aid under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) since passage of H.R. 1 last year.
In a letter to leaders of theSenate agriculture committee today, First Focus on Children, the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children's Defense Fund, MomsRising, Save the Children, and Zero to Three urged lawmakers to extend to all states the two-year delay in cost shifts that they have already granted to nine states and the District of Columbia. Those cost shifts to states will go into effect later this year if Congress does not act.
"Children's participation in SNAP isn't dropping because the economy is stronger or because hunger has disappeared or because 700,000 kids had all been secretly defrauding the government," First Focus on Children Senior Vice President of Economic Security Chad Bolt said. "They are losing access to nutritious food because states are struggling to administer the sweeping policy changes and new bureaucratic burdens imposed by H.R. 1 while also absorbing gigantic reductions in federal funding. Congress created this calamity and Congress has an obligation to fix it."
New research from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) shows that more than 700,000 children in just 12 states have lost SNAP benefits since H.R. 1 became law. Because the figures cover only the 12 states that report such data, CBPP estimates that the number of children no longer on SNAP nationally could be as high as 1 million and that the number will continue to climb.
"By the end of last year, 53% of families with infants and toddlers across the country reported mounting hardship paying for essentials, including food," said Matthew Melmed, Executive Director, ZERO TO THREE. "We've heard parents say that they are cutting back on food to ensure their children are getting enough. We should be investing in nutrition assistance for struggling families, not making it harder for them to afford food."
"Pediatricians know first-hand that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is a critical tool in helping children thrive, which is why we are deeply concerned by the number of children who have already lost access to this vital program," said American Academy of Pediatrics President Andrew D. Racine, MD, PhD, FAAP. "Far too many children in the United States are currently living in families facing food insecurity. Better nutrition leads to better health outcomes, and by staving off hunger, SNAP allows children to focus on learning in school and developing into healthy adults. Congress must act urgently to safeguard this program and delay the looming cost shift to states, which would have devastating consequences for the millions of children who rely on SNAP."
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INFODOC: https://firstfocus.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Letter-to-Senate-Ag-re-farm-legislation-and-SNAP-kids_.pdf
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Original text here: https://firstfocus.org/news/more-than-700000-children-have-already-lost-food-assistance/
[Category: Sociological]
CAIR-MI Joins Call for Action After Racist, Neo-Nazi Incident Targets Black-Owned Business in Grand Haven
WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release on June 3, 2026:
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CAIR-MI Joins Call for Action After Racist, Neo-Nazi Incident Targets Black-Owned Business in Grand Haven
The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), a chapter of the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today joined community leaders and civil rights advocates in condemning a reported racist, neo-Nazi incident targeting a Black-owned business in Grand Haven, Michigan.
According to media reports, the suspects allegedly
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WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release on June 3, 2026:
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CAIR-MI Joins Call for Action After Racist, Neo-Nazi Incident Targets Black-Owned Business in Grand Haven
The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI), a chapter of the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today joined community leaders and civil rights advocates in condemning a reported racist, neo-Nazi incident targeting a Black-owned business in Grand Haven, Michigan.
According to media reports, the suspects allegedlyharassed and intimidated patrons and staff at the business broadcasting "Heil Hitler" along with "F you n*****" over a hijacked speaker.
"Acts of intimidation targeting Black-owned businesses and minority communities have no place in Michigan or anywhere in our nation," said CAIR-MI Executive Director Dawud Walid. "The alleged open use of neo-Nazi and racist slurs is not merely offensive; it is a threat to the safety and dignity of all people."
Walid added: "History has shown the danger of allowing hate-filled ideologies to take root. Community leaders, elected officials, law enforcement agencies, faith institutions, and civil rights organizations must work together to ensure that those who spread hatred and intimidation are confronted through lawful and effective means."
He said Washington, D.C., based CAIR and the American Muslim community stand in solidarity with all those challenging antisemitism, systemic anti-Black racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, white supremacy, and all other forms of bigotry.
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CAIR's mission is to protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.
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Original text here: https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-mi-joins-call-for-action-after-racist-neo-nazi-incident-targets-black-owned-business-in-grand-haven/
[Category: Sociological]
