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Some Nonprofit Workers Still In Poverty, Struggling Financially

The NonProfit Times

These examples illustrate the cost of basics below the national average (El Paso County, Texas, $40,032), near the average (Franklin County, Ohio, which includes Columbus, $46,932), and above the average (Alexandria City, Virginia ($71,436).

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El Paso, Texas, just broke ground on the first U.S. facility to turn wastewater directly into drinking water

Fast Company Tech

But El Paso Water started planning decades ago for this hotter, drier climate. El Pasos Pure Water Center, which will go online by 2028, is the first direct-to-distribution reuse facility in the country. El Paso is the first out of the gate, but Phoenix and Tucson are expected to follow suit.

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Trump wants to ramp up deportations. So why is he firing all these immigration judges?

Fast Company Tech

As part of its efforts to reduce the size of the government workforce, the Trump administration has been firing federal employees on probationary status , meaning that they had recently been hired for their positions. Five of the judges were based in Texas with three in Houston, one in Laredo, and one in El Paso.

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How TikTok is emerging as an essential tool for migrant smugglers

Fast Company Tech

. “In this line of work, you have to switch tactics,” said a woman named Soary, part of a smuggling network bringing migrants from Ciudad Juarez to El Paso, Texas, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition that her last name would not be shared out of concern that authorities would track her down.

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After a year of COVID-19 charts, eight data communication lessons learned

Tableau

Local government dashboards . On the flipside, there were successful examples of personalized, trusted data in the Covid Tracking Project , ProPublica and El Paso School District charts. . The Economist’s page evolved to show a simpler highlight-table with much-higher information density. Make data personal and transparent.

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After a year of COVID-19 charts, eight data communication lessons learned

Tableau

Local government dashboards . On the flipside, there were successful examples of personalized, trusted data in the Covid Tracking Project , ProPublica and El Paso School District charts. . The Economist’s page evolved to show a simpler highlight-table with much-higher information density. Make data personal and transparent.

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This toxic chemical is leaking out of nondescript warehouses across the country. Almost no one knows about it

Fast Company Tech

By January 2018, Vanessa Dominguez and her husband had been flirting with moving to a different neighborhood in El Paso, Texas, for a few years. Dominguezs boss owned a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house in Ranchos del Sol, an upper-middle-class neighborhood in east El Paso, and was looking for a new tenant.

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