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Wednesday, May 08, 2019Posted in: Featured News, Healthcare, Water
Study shows drinking water could help reduce kids’ soda consumption
A recent study found that one in five American children don’t drink any water at all during an average day. To make matters worse, those same kids are getting about twice the amount of sugar from soda and other sugar sweetened beverages as those who do drink water.
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Friday, May 03, 2019Posted in: Economic issues, Elizabeth Zach, Featured News
Rural America faces severe affordable housing shortage
About a quarter of the nation’s most rural counties have an increasing number of “severely cost-burdened” residents, in contrast to urban areas, where residents have seen their incomes rise since the end of the Great Recession.
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Thursday, May 02, 2019Posted in: Economic issues, Featured News
Water infrastructure bill wins bipartisan support, but paying for it remains unclear
Democratic leaders and President Donald Trump have agreed to spend $2 trillion on improving U.S. waterways, bridges, power grids, and broadband infrastructure but stopped short of detailing how they will pay for it.
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