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Inequality Is Bad For Everybody
Plus: home climate risks, climate impacts on crops, and passkeys over passwords
Willow Beck
October 21, 2024
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Welcome to the week.
We’ve got Salaam Bhatti, the SNAP Director at the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), on the pod this week to chat about how we can end food insecurity in America. Don’t miss it!
Let’s get to it.
This week:
🌳Carbon sink failures
🧑⚕️Public health funding freezes
♻️Recycling wastewater
👐AI for charity
And more
Have a great week,
— Willow
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