Organizing for change: Let’s make our neighborhoods safer for now, and for the next generation

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The fact that low-income and minority people are concentrated into environmentally burdened communities shouldn’t be a surprise. Decades of federal, state, and local policies like neighborhood redlining and transportation disinvestment, combined with a lack of interest to act from those in power, have led us to where we are today. But just because that is the way things worked in the past does not mean it has to be our future.

The Bucket: From My Perspective

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Of the approximately 20 residents of the Bucket, we helped about 16 of them move somewhere else in the woods, three of them still have no idea where they’re going, and one of them took a shelter bed with special conditions. If the city’s goal was to move these residents into a shelter, and only 5 percent of them did so, I’d say the city failed. If the city’s goal was to make the lives harder for 19 residents, I’d say they succeeded. As a consequentialist, the city’s intent doesn’t matter to me, only the results, which was more pain and suffering. 

State’s Housing Stability Council prepares for release of statewide housing plan

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The council met virtually this Wednesday morning in preparation for a review of the new report to identify barriers to increased housing production in New Hampshire, especially focusing on individuals of lower incomes. A draft of the report based on strategies spoken about in Wednesday’s meeting is to be sent out to council members on June 18, with a subsequent meeting to review it on June 22.

Voluntary recall for lot of Beech-Nut rice cereal

read more…: Voluntary recall for lot of Beech-Nut rice cereal

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) is informing consumers that Beech-Nut Nutrition has issued a voluntary recall of one lot of Beech-Nut Stage 1, Single Grain Rice Cereal due to samples that tested above the FDA guidance level for naturally occurring inorganic arsenic.

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