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“We are artists,” Alec Ozawa says, “but we don’t create art for ourselves.” He and his fiancée, Ash Stewack, make art for others: for businesses, passersby, and neighborhoods. And most of the time, you won’t even find their signature at the bottom right of the piece. The Chicago-based sign...
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Massachusetts educators are praising federal legislation to ensure public schoolteachers make a minimum of $60,000 a year. Supporters say the Pay Teachers Act would help fill the more than 4,000 teacher vacancies statewide and ensure fully certified teachers are staffing schools. Cory O’Hayer, a social studies teacher for Boston...
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Los terapeutas están intensificando sus esfuerzos para ayudar a los estudiantes indocumentados a lidiar con el miedo generalizado generado por las continuas redadas de ICE de la administración Trump. El grupo Immigrants Rising ofrece una línea gratuita de consejería para estudiantes indocumentados en California de entre 18 y 45...
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Therapists are stepping up to help undocumented students deal with the pervasive fear created by the Trump administration’s ongoing ICE raids. The group Immigrants Rising offers free online counseling to undocumented students in California, ages 18 to 45. Mayra Barragan-O’Brien is a licensed marriage and family therapist, and the...
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At least 135 people have died due to recent flooding in Texas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, northwest of San Antonio. Texas has a history of significant flood-related deaths, and the state leads the nation in flood deaths, but a natural disaster can happen to anyone. If...
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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Diecisiete organizaciones de apoyo a las víctimas y supervivientes de la violencia doméstica han presentado conjuntamente una demanda contra la fiscal general Pam Bondi y el Departamento de Justicia, alegando que los nuevos requisitos de certificación menoscaban su capacidad para prestar servicios a todos...
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Sunita Sohrabji American Community Media Seventeen organizations that support victims and survivors of domestic violence have jointly filed a lawsuit against US Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department, saying that new certification requirements impair their ability to provide services to all who need them. Shortly after taking...
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Ahorrar para un pago inicial es una de las mayores barreras para comprar una casa, pero no tiene por qué serlo. No solo los programas de asistencia para el pago inicial estan ayudando a las personas a convertirse en proprietarios de vivienda, sino que algunos programas hipotecarios también hacen...
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Saving for a down payment is one of the biggest barriers to buying a home, but it doesn’t have to be. Not only are down payment assistance programs helping people unlock homeownership, but some mortgage programs make it possible to put down as little as 3%. Here’s what to...