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MAY 21, 2008

Instead of being reactive, we can be proactive, and work to be a government that prevents genocide. It is in our best interest, and in the interest of those who are victims or suffering in places where their states or governments have failed to protect them. government intervene, say in Rwanda, or in genocides of the past?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Five years later, temporary stimulus funding has come and gone, replaced instead by ongoing cuts to government funding. Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. Like this article?

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 3, 2025

We have worked and/or are presently working on legislation with nonprofit associations in California, Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Florida. During this placement, either the government agency overseeing this child or the foster family agency was in the foster home the equivalent of every other day. He had never abused before.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The tragic collapse of an Amazon warehouse in Edwardsville, Illinois during last week’s historic tornado outbreak in the Midwest is raising questions about the safety of the e-commerce giant’s packing facilities and the policies and protocols Amazon has in place to protect workers during disasters. It’s the private sector.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

Its not only crops and livestock that are affected, says Gerald Nelson, professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigns College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences. Since then, new government policies, and the meteoric rise of renewable energy, seem to have made a dent. degrees Fahrenheit.

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The Verge

MARCH 31, 2021

The primary goal of these bills is to allow developers to bypass Apple and Google’s 30 percent app store commission, while much loftier aims include forcing Apple to allow entire alternative app marketplaces on iOS and making it illegal for tech companies to retaliate against developers for trying to bypass the app store policies.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

In Illinois , organizations reported feeling the pinch from changes in fundraising strategy and inconsistent federal and private relief. Organizations identify funding, policy, and communication as the top ways they want funders to support their work. Small grassroots organizations are most at risk of permanent closure.

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Tableau

MAY 7, 2021

As the world rolls out COVID-19 vaccines, the need for accurate and timely vaccination distribution and uptake data is top-of-mind for government leaders, public health organizations, and healthcare providers everywhere. Vaccine Management Analytics In The Spotlight . With those engagements top-of-mind, I’d like to highlight: .

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Ars Technica

APRIL 1, 2025

Nearly half of US states sued the federal government and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today in a bid to halt the termination of $11 billion in public health grants. The lawsuit was filed by 23 states and the District of Columbia. Read full article Comments

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Tableau

MAY 7, 2021

As the world rolls out COVID-19 vaccines, the need for accurate and timely vaccination distribution and uptake data is top-of-mind for government leaders, public health organizations, and healthcare providers everywhere. Vaccine Management Analytics In The Spotlight . With those engagements top-of-mind, I’d like to highlight: .

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Engadget

APRIL 3, 2025

Sources told Bloomberg that Microsoft has delayed or slowed data center efforts in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois, North Dakota and Wisconsin. The country has a unique opportunity to pursue this vision and build on the foundational ideas set for AI policy during President Trumps first term," it reads. "At

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Engadget

MARCH 10, 2025

Fortunately, companies and governments alike have made it possible to dispose of your old devices responsibly. We've outlined policies from a handful of manufacturers below. Some nonprofit recyclers may still accept the items, and you should check to see if your local government is hosting any drop-off events.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

A deep dive into its company history, policies, and transparency efforts revealed plenty of excellent reasons for the hype, albeit a couple of hitches. Proton VPN privacy policy and transparency efforts Proton VPN is technically covered by two privacy policies: the main Proton Privacy Policy and Proton VPN 's own sub-policy.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

California and Massachusetts began hiring early ; Illinois , Georgia , and Texas are among the states that have followed. This is the process whereby people infected with COVID-19 temporarily relocate to government-run facilities to receive care in an environment where they are unlikely to spread the disease to others. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2020

Seventeen states and Washington, DC have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s policy that would prevent international students who are taking online courses from remaining in the US. Prior to the July 6th announcement, there was no indication that the fall 2020 semester would not be subject to the same policy.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

This dynamic was captured beautifully on Wednesday in a story in the Wall Street Journal that charts the company’s ever-evolving content policies, which have grudgingly adjusted over the past several months to welcome such previously verboten content as political protests, MAGA hats, “more than two inches of cleavage,” and. Governing. ?

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

NEVI funding was appropriated by Congress as part of the bipartisan infrastructure law, and it cannot be canceled by the executive branch, said Elizabeth Turnbull, director of policy and regulatory affairs at the Alliance for Transportation Electrification, a trade group for the electric vehicle industry.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 15, 2025

Harvard University is the latest in a growing list of higher education institutions that had its federal funding targeted by the government in order to comply with the Trump administration’s political agenda. The government was set to review nearly $9 billion of federal grants and contracts. Makiya Seminera, Associated Press

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

Where ever-shifting content policies, and demands for near-perfect accuracy, could make the job itself impossible. Reported cases in Illinois: 79,123. Total test results (positive and negative) in Illinois: 442,425. Governing. ? Reported cases in New Jersey: 139,945. Data from The New York Times.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

at the University of Illinois because of its top-ranked computer science program. Many of us saw the United States as the pinnacle of technological innovation, and also as a true meritocracy — somewhere that gave immigrants a fair shake, rewarded hard work and let talented young people build a future for themselves.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

Ever since the United States governments unfulfilled promise of giving every newly freed Black American 40 acres and a mule after the Civil War, descendants of the enslaved have repeatedly proposed the idea of redistributing land to redress the nations legacies of slavery. Today, white households in the U.S.

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The Verge

MAY 27, 2020

And if they work on the company’s policy team, or as a moderator, they will look to the company’s terms of services. But if your job is to write or enforce policy at a tech company, your next steps are far less clear. I spent the day talking with former Twitter employees who worked on speech and policy issues.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order meant to expand access to and reduce costs of in vitro fertilization and issued a presidential memorandum calling for “radical transparency requirements” from the government, which he suggested could reduce wasteful spending. Illinois Sen. But he’s a patriot.”

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

Facebook says it will abide by the board’s decisions, and will also ask it to issue advisory opinions on emerging policy questions. He told employees on Tuesday : Over time in general, we just we tend to add more policies to restrict things more and more. Reported cases in Illinois: 124,279. Governing. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 1, 2020

“I know many people are upset that we’ve left the President’s posts up,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post , “but our position is that we should enable as much expression as possible unless it will cause imminent risk of specific harms or dangers spelled out in clear policies.”. And two, that Trump had sort of (maybe?)

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

from what our policy is and the principles of the platform we’re running are — knowing that the decision that we made was going to lead to a lot of people being very upset inside the company and a lot of the media criticism we’re going to get,” said Zuckerberg. But “I knew that I needed to separate out my personal opinion.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

government spending and the size of the federal workforce. Billionaire Elon Musk, who leads Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, has called for getting rid of entire agencies. But it’s unclear how much power Chavez-DeRemer will be able to wield as Trump’s Cabinet moves to slash U.S.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Freedom of reach poses a different set of questions for platform policy teams and executives to think through. Reported cases in Illinois: 124,060. Total test results (positive and negative) in Illinois: 959,175. Governing. ? In that system, everything really is a question of free speech. Data from The New York Times.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

And local governments are planning for much longer periods of lockdown. In an open letter posted by Brian Huseman, Amazon’s VP of public policy, the company highlights its own ongoing efforts to try to crack down on price gouging. Reported cases in Illinois: 83,168. Governing. ? Reported cases in New Jersey: 140,743.

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The Verge

MAY 29, 2020

Conversely, government figures like Trump actually face strict rules about blocking users. Here’s Russell Brandom with a good, concise explanation of the reasons in The Verge : The biggest one is the First Amendment, which prevents the US government from limiting private speech. The user lost.)

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2020

Since April to June we removed more than 7 million pieces of content on Facebook and Instagram for violating our policy against sharing harmful COVID-19 misinformation.”. to lobby Congress on Monday, she has said that the government is run in part not by humans but by “reptilians” and other aliens. Governing. ?

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The company gave them a variety of executives to speak with on and off the record, including Joel Kaplan, its vice president of global public policy, who often pops up in stories like this to complain that some action might disproportionately hurt conservatives. Reported cases in Illinois: 114,448. Governing. ?

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