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(Courtesy Hyundai)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Courtesy Hyundai Motor Group</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/news/georgia-news/hyundai-electric-vehicle-plant-near-savannah-fails-wastewater-standards/HW4CVH7I7RFS7EBDPM2L3ZWIEI/"><h3>Hyundai electric vehicle plant near Savannah fails wastewater standards</h3></a><p class="description">After violating its wastewater permit with Savannah, Hyundai has trucked millions of gallons offsite since opening its Georgia EV plant last year, The Current GA reports.</p></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/things-to-do/arts-culture/some-of-the-best-movies-from-2025-sundance-film-festival/XPT37F7JCBHRJJ7YMHCGRQUYFY/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/4XYSJDVUYZHAHCVHQP6NRCHJX4.jpg?auth=4b5bacae8f57d0cd97b0ef2a914069e4e4a77f7497406104b4c5423e22aa1cd4&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley appear in "Come See Me in the Good Light" by Ryan White. (Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute/Brandon Somerhalder)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute/Brandon Somerhalder</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/things-to-do/arts-culture/some-of-the-best-movies-from-2025-sundance-film-festival/XPT37F7JCBHRJJ7YMHCGRQUYFY/"><h3>10 favorite films from Sundance Film Festival 2025</h3></a><p class="description">Here are 10 movies screened at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival that are worth keeping an eye out for.</p></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/partner/how-medicaid-helps-mothers-caregivers-and-children/HGF5C4T3IJCGJNW35S2IZQ5XDU/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/VYVEV2AOLJCODPWROQ4LK64UNI.jpg?auth=47c322c42d4d7e82447edf68bdfa6ca586d4a2e603fca3c2346a227e1fd8ff63&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="On the receiving end of potential reductions to Medicaid are people: families — in particular pregnant people, mothers, caregivers and children. (Courtesy of Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post/Getty Images)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post/Getty Images</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/partner/how-medicaid-helps-mothers-caregivers-and-children/HGF5C4T3IJCGJNW35S2IZQ5XDU/"><h3>How Medicaid helps mothers, caregivers and children</h3></a><p class="description">On the receiving end of potential reductions to Medicaid are people: families — in particular pregnant people, mothers, caregivers and children.</p></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/news/health-news/gainesville-medical-center-expands-emergency-department-with-new-facility/NH2YM6P4TVGTXG7CJBH7TGSXAU/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/VVB4B4DIZRHVNGJIR55FXCPI3I.JPG?auth=ce9b9b0fe52a40b64d55af88a49ad5989ea0a5be942831e613371df503521f7d&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="The Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville is set to open its state-of-the-art Green Tower to the public on Saturday, Feb. 8. (Courtesy of Julianna Duennes Russ)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Julianna Duennes Russ</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/news/health-news/gainesville-medical-center-expands-emergency-department-with-new-facility/NH2YM6P4TVGTXG7CJBH7TGSXAU/"><h3>Gainesville medical center expands emergency department with new facility</h3></a><p class="description">Northeast Georgia Medical Center's Green Tower is designed to provide faster and more efficient patient care on the Gainesville campus.</p></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/partner/chattanooga-area-students-to-get-150-to-start-investing-for-education-after-high-school/Q3H2TGWINJCODDAYH27SA3H3VA/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/GH24UF25ZFAXVC62E4DU5DAJ2Y.jpg?auth=ad4b40c76bf88e5119f34f64f66b11bd4588b84138f59fcb862f1c041f602dc8&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="FILE: Students arrive at Dalewood Middle School on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023 for the first day of school. (Photo Courtesy of Olivia Ross/Chattanooga Times Free Press)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Olivia Ross</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/partner/chattanooga-area-students-to-get-150-to-start-investing-for-education-after-high-school/Q3H2TGWINJCODDAYH27SA3H3VA/"><h3>Chattanooga-area students to get $150 to start investing for education after high school</h3></a><p class="description">A nonprofit in Chattanooga is partnering with several public and private entities on a five-year pilot program, which could ultimately serve about 38,500 students.</p></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/partner/she-learned-to-crochet-to-grieve-her-son-now-her-business-shares-the-craft/TWMNMG6RLZH35JNYZYSBSERXSI/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/344DXQYAKNHAZLWMIEKZIUORAQ.jpg?auth=f3adcc8e919c64d4215611765ac6c7c26146286bf62c392fa850bdc799565bd9&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Judah David Creations owner Darice Oppong poses on the back porch of The Web on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024, in Macon, Georgia. Oppong started her crochet small business Judah David Creations in January 2024 after learning to crochet after the loss of her son. (Photo Courtesy of Katie Tucker/The Telegraph)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Katie Tucker/The Telegraph</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/partner/she-learned-to-crochet-to-grieve-her-son-now-her-business-shares-the-craft/TWMNMG6RLZH35JNYZYSBSERXSI/"><h3>She learned to crochet to grieve her son. Now, her business shares the craft.</h3></a><p class="description">After losing her son, Darice Oppong taught herself how to crotchet to stay busy. She now teaches the skill to others, including NICU parents. </p></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/partner/new-clinic-for-hiv-and-aids-patients-opens-in-macon/ZEUV7FCZ25HEJDINFSKWTFUFNI/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/G546HNLWNFFNRAKFAYB2T5SZXU.jpg?auth=86df246ef15a73c9ba33612cfa8c467e6dc7a58cdd5ce0a3349e7fb78a9ec6c7&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Holly Ireland, interim director of the HOPE Center, joins health care professionals and community members in unveiling the clinic’s new location on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. The new space on Arkwright Road promises to bring new services and more privacy to patients. (Photo Courtesy of Lucinda Warnke/The Telegraph)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Lucinda Warnke</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/partner/new-clinic-for-hiv-and-aids-patients-opens-in-macon/ZEUV7FCZ25HEJDINFSKWTFUFNI/"><h3>New clinic for HIV and AIDS patients opens in Macon </h3></a><p class="description">The HOPE Center unveiled a new location to begin serving people with HIV and AIDS in the Macon area. </p></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/partner/conyers-native-travels-the-world-helping-and-serving-others/R6LZPIDQKJHMBFUIOHKUAIFORM/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/GD6NGBONMJDK7PQH423ZVOPCRE.jpg?auth=df34d906bd2454ec5f390ea66e8fd7306b57103aed4e3170ee7482ae75a0a5b3&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Children from a local village in Botswana gather for a photo with Peace Corps volunteer Shanya McWhinney. (Photo provided by Shanya McWhinney)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Shanya McWhinney</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/partner/conyers-native-travels-the-world-helping-and-serving-others/R6LZPIDQKJHMBFUIOHKUAIFORM/"><h3>Conyers native travels the world helping and serving others</h3></a><p class="description">Shanya McWhinney will remember her 26th birthday forever. 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(Photo Courtesy of the Catherine Edwards Lab)" width="1260" height="840" class=" " style="display:none" fetchpriority="auto"/><div class="c-placeholder" style="display:flex;aspect-ratio:1.5;max-width:78.75rem;max-height:52.5rem;object-fit:cover;background:#f8f8f8;justify-content:center;align-items:center"><img alt="Placeholder Image" src="/pf/resources/logos/AJC/placeholder.svg?d=2099" style="width:20%;box-shadow:none"/></div></div><p class="photo-credit-text">Credit: Catherine Edwards Lab</p></div></div></div></a><div class="story-info"><a class="headline " href="/partner/scientists-aim-to-track-save-endangered-right-whales-off-georgia-coast/2ZZJ4E7KNVF4RCXHTTGUZWAZH4/"><h3>Scientists aim to track, save endangered right whales off Georgia coast</h3></a><p class="description">The surveys in the sky and on the water are imperfect, so scientists are ramping up the effort to track the whales in other ways – especially in the Southeast.</p></div></div><div class=" c-story-tease "><a href="/partner/how-jimmy-carter-helped-create-the-uss-modern-day-refugee-resettlement-system/FH2S6YMQ3BCKBG6WYXOJUENM7U/" class="story-image "><div class="c-image-component image-landscape"><div class="image-component-image "><div class="enlargeImage-wrapper"><div class="lazyload-wrapper"><img src="https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/SS2BTDQF7NAKHEMGLWV4ZS5OMA.jpg?auth=3d21cd8e77563337bab819e3a51fbe389bf066515d5c2aaf90fc914978792938&width=1260&height=840&smart=true" alt="Boat People SOS Atlanta held a community health event in 2024 in Norcross, Georgia. 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Bryan County is building the $129 million North Bryan County Water Reclamation Facility across I-16 from the Hyundai site to accommodate the plant’s industrial waste, but it won’t be complete until the end of 2025. However, HMGMA, the legal entity in charge of manufacturing and permitting at the site, needed water as well as wastewater treatment when the Ellabell site started assembling vehicles last September."},{"_id":"NLMEZQ46GBHZ3FKTFKU5ESEWIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304876},"type":"text","content":"Yet two temporary measures — first to have Savannah treat the industrial wastewater and then to have a Richmond Hill facility handle it — have failed, according to Ogeechee Riverkeeper Damon Mullis, who shared state and municipal government records with The Current GA. To the environmentalist, HMGMA’s wastewater issues are part of a larger pattern of neglect of state standards and good stewardship of natural resources."},{"_id":"QDWKPLKTTZFX5B3PPTSIWHVSKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304877},"type":"text","content":"“There seems to be some sort of gap in the system where the contents of wastewater hauled to treatment facilities is not properly vetted,” Mullis said. “The result is industrial pollutants being passed-through treatment facilities, polluting our shared waters, and potentially ruining the facilities’ ability to effectively treat any wastewater it receives.”"},{"level":2,"_id":"7HH4LSWIBNBHHGKMNGV632ACE4","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"Treatment plan cut short"},{"_id":"7DPHUIKV5ZD2HPDNAVQZHWTT6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304879},"type":"text","content":"The Savannah city government agreed to treat HMGMA’s industrial wastewater as a temporary measure as the Bryan County treatment facility was being built. On Sept. 3, the Travis Field Water Reclamation Facility near the airport received its first wastewater from the Hyundai site through 24 miles of pipe, said Shawn Rosenquist, a senior civil engineer with the city."},{"_id":"NQHWUH4TFNGXDLWVCZOOJTQ7IY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304880},"type":"text","content":"Within weeks, however, the city technicians discovered that Hyundai’s wastewater contained more than six times the allowable limit of copper and more than twice the allowable zinc concentration. As well, HMGMA failed to keep continuous oversight on its wastewater conductivity, with gaps in data that sometimes reached 19 hours."},{"_id":"ESL6VT6XU5EX5GG3U4R4NUWECY","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304881},"type":"text","content":"Savannah, like other large municipalities and counties in Georgia, has authority from the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to operate and enforce an industrial pretreatment program, Savannah Chief of Water Resources Ron Feldner explained in an interview with The Current GA."},{"_id":"2ILVVJ476FFTZL3FHJGMSROTHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304882},"type":"text","content":"The city issues permits to industrial users to ensure that they pre-treat their industrial wastewater to standards that make it compatible with the city’s processes. Ultimately, the city must ensure the treated water it discharges into the Savannah River meets the requirements of its own permit under the<a href=\"https://www.epa.gov/npdes\"> National Pollution Discharge Elimination System. </a>"},{"_id":"Y6BPPKLGXRC6XBTPLFEXJ2JBYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304883},"type":"text","content":"The permit for HMGMA demanded self reporting from the company."},{"_id":"66EGWWDNNFDJPGCAFT5DMIC34Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304884},"type":"text","content":"However, city technicians found “clear violations of government parameters,” Rosenquist said in an interview with The Current GA, that resulted in rising levels of phosphorus in the discharge from Travis Field, something he described as a red flag."},{"_id":"KUWYHBQEZ5AS3EOBVOX6CBWCM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304885},"type":"text","content":"“We know that the biological treatment of phosphorus is one of the more sensitive plant processes, so that’s one that we monitor very closely in terms of an impediment to biological processes in plant,” he said."},{"_id":"74IHAI7CLVADZKGPTARM5HYTJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304886},"type":"text","content":"Plant operators then looked for what could have thrown the phosphorus removal off-kilter. The data suggested it was elevated levels of zinc and copper, Rosenquist said."},{"_id":"CML3CL6M6FHOTNU4K65GUVFCTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304887},"type":"text","content":"On Sept. 26, the city shut down operations at Travis Field in anticipation of Hurricane Helene. That was also the last day it received wastewater from HMGMA, Rosenquist said."},{"_id":"GUUAEAVND5CP7O3N3GCQ7RGFS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304888},"type":"text","content":"On Oct. 1, the city sent a<a href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25551875-notice-of-violation-savannah-to-hmgma-oct-1-2024/\"> “Notice of Violation” to Hyundai</a> detailing the permit violations and demanding a detailed correction plan."},{"_id":"NJLUS3MODJF4DHLH3LOHWP6GD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304889},"type":"text","content":"“The fact that they could not achieve compliance with the permit to discharge to us simply necessitated them taking other alternate approaches to getting rid of the wastewater via some disposal mechanism that obviously wasn’t Travis Field,” Feldner said."},{"level":2,"_id":"64UWH7TZSFFCROCO2KJBE47QGA","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"Trucking it out"},{"_id":"PBQ2G3L5Y5DHFMUBRNSFVM2QYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304891},"type":"text","content":"Rather than restart wastewater treatment in Savannah, HMGMA started trucking wastewater to an array of different facilities in late September, according to correspondence between the Hyundai affiliate and Georgia’s EPD."},{"_id":"HBSFPSV7YJHGLJDUAITOABCTN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304892},"type":"text","content":"One of those sites was Richmond Hill Wastewater Treatment Plant. But state regulators at the EPD stepped in on <a href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25553815-hyundai-loc-pretreatment-permit-required-1/\">Dec. 6, sending a “Letter of Concern”</a> to HMGMA. 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The piping is in the process of being replaced, but the process won’t be complete until the fourth quarter of 2025, he said."},{"_id":"Z37IFJNJV5ABDOQPA3OJ3BJU6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304896},"type":"text","content":"Meanwhile, HMGMA received a<a href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25551851-hyundai-nov-pretreatment-permit/\"> Notice of Violation on Jan. 27</a> from the EPD for not applying or receiving a permit prior to disposing wastewater at the Richmond Hill facility."},{"_id":"25CBNSWGYNHRFNWOUSVY7VWESI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304897},"type":"text","content":"The EPD notice threatens fines for any continued noncompliance."},{"_id":"TMLHOVHGWBB3JL7EEGLJV4EBOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304898},"type":"text","content":"Correspondence between HMGMA and EPD show that the companies from the Ellabell manufacturing site stopped using the Richmond Hill facility in November. LaMuraglia said the company had not received any fines as of March 5."},{"_id":"LY27XDO7CFHDHA5CAIU3QTE7JI","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304899},"type":"text","content":"“We are aware that hauling to a wastewater treatment facility is only authorized by permit and we have worked with GA-EPD to ensure proper disposal methods are used,’ LaMuraglia wrote in an email to The Current GA."},{"_id":"HTSIJRPHBBBGJNLGZ3GKHNOX2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304900},"type":"text","content":"He also clarified that the wastewater is not solely from HMGMA."},{"_id":"ZSB6RIENJBCNHKUPUGKI63TEAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1741387304901},"type":"text","content":"HMGMA, as the legal entity in charge of the site, is the permit holder and subject of both Savannah’s and EPD’s regulatory actions. 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Technically it’s the story of poets and partners Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley as they confront and fight through Gibson’s terminal cancer diagnosis. But it’s so much more than that. It’s a tribute to Gibson’s stunning writing and performance, and that alone would have been enough for a compelling film. It’s also a reminder that there are small moments in life like having a never-ending roadside mailbox situation, a small yet humorous storyline running throughout the film, and monstrously huge moments where everything feels like it’s crashing around us and we need someone to walk us to the car while we hyperventilate. It’s a reminder that all of these moments, the funny, happy, devastating, and crushing among them, can help us to truly live, if we only allow ourselves the space to embrace the mystery. Our favorite film of Sundance 2025."},{"_id":"7MEYBBEEHBHW7AZEPGE5HCVWPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740664975956},"type":"text","content":"<b>“Didn’t Die”</b>"},{"_id":"YJMBL3VPSZBV7NUU5OUZE7CC7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1740664975957},"type":"text","content":"When Vinita (Kiran Deol, in a breakout performance) starts narrating as the host of her <a href=\"https://festivalplayer.sundance.org/sundance-film-festival-2025/play/675ddedc02a8d50b1ea9adfb\" target=\"_blank\">“Didn’t Die”</a> podcast, you can’t help but feel an uncomfortable familiarity. Though the story is about a zombie plague that has enveloped the world, Vinita and her listeners experience similar issues we all lived through during the recent pandemic. Feelings of isolation, dread, and a desperation for normalcy abound when an old flame played by George Basil bursts into a meetup of podcast fans with a baby and a terrifying update about the state of the new normal. But at its core, director Meera Menon’s “Didn’t Die” isn’t a zombie movie. It’s a sweet, funny, and occasionally scary story of a family trying to cope in the midst of a world turned upside down."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"copyright":"All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute pro","address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"15f2a0b5d55ad7c53a03a05d341f4d2465fc518713c47c90545bc8224f6a1ee9"},"caption":"Tabatha Zimiga appears in \"East of Wall\" by Kate Beecroft.","source":{"system":"photo center","name":"AJC","edit_url":"","source_type":"staff","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","distributor":{"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019"},"version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/P5NG4XFTONDNXNZC3JOP4NE2VQ.jpeg","geo":{},"licensable":false,"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute","type":"author","byline":"Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute"}]},"subtitle":"AAJC 030925 Paste Sundance","width":2560,"_id":"P5NG4XFTONDNXNZC3JOP4NE2VQ","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/P5NG4XFTONDNXNZC3JOP4NE2VQ.jpeg?auth=15f2a0b5d55ad7c53a03a05d341f4d2465fc518713c47c90545bc8224f6a1ee9","keywords":["east of wall","kate beecroft","next","still","sundance 2025","tabatha zimiga"],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/v2/P5NG4XFTONDNXNZC3JOP4NE2VQ.jpeg?auth=15f2a0b5d55ad7c53a03a05d341f4d2465fc518713c47c90545bc8224f6a1ee9","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/P5NG4XFTONDNXNZC3JOP4NE2VQ.jpeg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/P5NG4XFTONDNXNZC3JOP4NE2VQ.jpeg?auth=15f2a0b5d55ad7c53a03a05d341f4d2465fc518713c47c90545bc8224f6a1ee9","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/P5NG4XFTONDNXNZC3JOP4NE2VQ.jpeg?auth=15f2a0b5d55ad7c53a03a05d341f4d2465fc518713c47c90545bc8224f6a1ee9&width=300","version":1,"originalName":"East_of_Wall-Still1.jpeg","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"template_id":594,"galleries":[],"_id":"OXU73MA4DNGNLP54SPLNYHM3GQ"},"created_date":"2025-02-27T17:47:31Z","last_updated_date":"2025-02-27T18:17:32Z","height":1440,"image_type":"photograph","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/P5NG4XFTONDNXNZC3JOP4NE2VQ.jpeg?auth=15f2a0b5d55ad7c53a03a05d341f4d2465fc518713c47c90545bc8224f6a1ee9&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"}},{"_id":"FEFB35U3I5C55IAQNCX5HYZOVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740680553613},"type":"text","content":"<b>“East of Wall”</b>"},{"_id":"XQ5PF3B5J5DRDDOTQJOBAJLHOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740664975959},"type":"text","content":"Director Kate Beecroft’s <a href=\"https://festival.sundance.org/blogs/an-emotional-east-of-wall-premiere-brings-cast-and-crowd-to-grateful-tears/\" target=\"_blank\">“East of Wall”</a> focuses on Tabatha and her daughter Porshia Zamiga, non-actors playing themselves, who live in a trailer on a desolate horse ranch near Wall, South Dakota. 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Our favorite narrative film of Sundance 2025."},{"_id":"OH6ITHAXRRFNFNO4BICNRUCEOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740664975960},"type":"text","content":"<b>“Hal & Harper”</b>"},{"_id":"DPYFQ5VJ75CV5PXCHW44IJ63RI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740664975961},"type":"text","content":"Watching <a href=\"https://festivalplayer.sundance.org/sundance-film-festival-2025/play/675df6edd48d19002c49fbab\" target=\"_blank\">this episodic drama series</a> is like spending time with your most charming yet highly dysfunctional family members. You’re delighted by them and their presence on screen and yet can’t look away from the deep flaws that they try to hide as they navigate life, grief and trauma. Hal, played by Cooper Raiff, also the writer and director, is the younger brother of Harper (Lili Reinhart). When their mother passes away, their dad, the wonderful Mark Ruffalo struggles to parent Hal and Harper, and they are left to mostly take care of themselves, with Harper taking on a more motherly role as the older sister. The series is both amusing and heartbreaking, sometimes all at once. And yet, through the tears and uncomfortable silences, a beautiful picture of a family finding themselves again emerges. Our favorite narrative experience of Sundance 2025."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"copyright":"All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute pro","address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"e378d02308a3255bc1c687a71e49769648fcf9b44f299104bc1dc7c24a24b9c2"},"caption":"Jeff Buckley appears in \"It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley\" by Amy Berg.","source":{"system":"photo center","name":"AJC","edit_url":"","source_type":"staff","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","distributor":{"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019"},"version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/5ZWWVPQBA5D3NNUCESYZGRT5QI.jpg","licensable":false,"credits":{"affiliation":[],"by":[{"name":"Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute/Merri Cyr","type":"author","byline":"Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute/Merri Cyr"}]},"subtitle":"AAJC 030925 Paste Sundance","width":2460,"_id":"5ZWWVPQBA5D3NNUCESYZGRT5QI","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/5ZWWVPQBA5D3NNUCESYZGRT5QI.jpg?auth=e378d02308a3255bc1c687a71e49769648fcf9b44f299104bc1dc7c24a24b9c2","keywords":["amy berg","it's never over, jeff buckley","jeff buckley","still","sundance 2025"],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/v2/5ZWWVPQBA5D3NNUCESYZGRT5QI.jpg?auth=e378d02308a3255bc1c687a71e49769648fcf9b44f299104bc1dc7c24a24b9c2","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/5ZWWVPQBA5D3NNUCESYZGRT5QI.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/5ZWWVPQBA5D3NNUCESYZGRT5QI.jpg?auth=e378d02308a3255bc1c687a71e49769648fcf9b44f299104bc1dc7c24a24b9c2","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/5ZWWVPQBA5D3NNUCESYZGRT5QI.jpg?auth=e378d02308a3255bc1c687a71e49769648fcf9b44f299104bc1dc7c24a24b9c2&width=300","version":0,"originalName":"Its_Never_Over_Jeff_Buckley-Still_1.jpg","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"template_id":594,"galleries":[],"_id":"LLQSHK43DNBKPCXMK2IEPUECJA"},"created_date":"2025-02-27T17:49:44Z","last_updated_date":"2025-02-27T17:49:44Z","height":1383,"image_type":"photograph","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/5ZWWVPQBA5D3NNUCESYZGRT5QI.jpg?auth=e378d02308a3255bc1c687a71e49769648fcf9b44f299104bc1dc7c24a24b9c2&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"}},{"_id":"UEU27EY4YFDYXMFQ47C7Q7DOYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740680553618},"type":"text","content":"<b>“It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley”</b>"},{"_id":"T7JNRIR5OZFYDIQRNEJRYNMYPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740664975963},"type":"text","content":"Director Amy Berg, who has one Oscar nomination under her belt for 2006′s “Deliver Us From Evil” and arguably should have at least two more (for 2012′s “West of Memphis” and 2015′s “Prophets Prey”), is no stranger to documentaries that tackle larger-than-life and impossible-to-summarize figures, having directed a masterful Janis Joplin doc (“Janis: Little Girl Blue”). So she was a perfect fit for the <a href=\"https://festival.sundance.org/blogs/its-never-over-jeff-buckley-is-a-tender-tribute-to-the-alt-rock-idol/\" target=\"_blank\">story of the enigmatic genius Jeff Buckley</a>, the estranged son of folk legend Tim Buckley who made a single full album (one that David Bowie called the greatest ever made), and then drowned in Memphis before he could complete a follow-up. Many casual fans only know Buckley as the foremost interpreter of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” and misremember that he died of an overdose, or that he was high when he drowned (he wasn’t). For those fans, Berg’s doc will be a way to explore more of Buckley’s story, but even for those of us more intimately familiar with his career, there is much new here. For both audiences, the still-raw emotion with which those closest to him discuss his life and work is moving. And Berg uses abstract, pulsing animation to great effect, including the most beautiful, gentle depiction I’ve ever seen on film of the death of a beloved figure. Some great documentaries are only for some audiences, but the powerful “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley” is a feast for everyone."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"copyright":"All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute pro","address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"4f1de3519afe8046345ef37a167da25374c17b6fca684aa36d250bf8120003ef"},"caption":"A still from \"Mr. Nobody Against Putin\" by David Borestein and Pavel Talankin.","source":{"system":"photo center","name":"AJC","edit_url":"","source_type":"staff","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","distributor":{"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019"},"version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/ANNQ4ZLREBDHBHIRAIKXSEDHBY.jpeg","licensable":false,"credits":{"affiliation":[],"by":[{"name":"Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute","type":"author","byline":"Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute"}]},"subtitle":"AAJC 030925 Paste Sundance","width":2560,"_id":"ANNQ4ZLREBDHBHIRAIKXSEDHBY","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/ANNQ4ZLREBDHBHIRAIKXSEDHBY.jpeg?auth=4f1de3519afe8046345ef37a167da25374c17b6fca684aa36d250bf8120003ef","keywords":["david borestein","mr. nobody against putin","pavel talankin","still","sundance 2025","world documentary competition"],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/v2/ANNQ4ZLREBDHBHIRAIKXSEDHBY.jpeg?auth=4f1de3519afe8046345ef37a167da25374c17b6fca684aa36d250bf8120003ef","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/ANNQ4ZLREBDHBHIRAIKXSEDHBY.jpeg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/ANNQ4ZLREBDHBHIRAIKXSEDHBY.jpeg?auth=4f1de3519afe8046345ef37a167da25374c17b6fca684aa36d250bf8120003ef","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/ANNQ4ZLREBDHBHIRAIKXSEDHBY.jpeg?auth=4f1de3519afe8046345ef37a167da25374c17b6fca684aa36d250bf8120003ef&width=300","version":0,"originalName":"Mr_Nobody_Against_Putin-Still3.jpeg","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"template_id":594,"galleries":[],"_id":"UCEWECC27JB5NFQKAAKBMS2HPY"},"created_date":"2025-02-27T17:51:41Z","last_updated_date":"2025-02-27T17:51:41Z","height":1350,"image_type":"photograph","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/ANNQ4ZLREBDHBHIRAIKXSEDHBY.jpeg?auth=4f1de3519afe8046345ef37a167da25374c17b6fca684aa36d250bf8120003ef&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"}},{"_id":"OBQH5M4WKRHLVFMP5LLEOH7E5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1740682276236},"type":"text","content":"<b>“Mr. Nobody Against Putin”</b>"},{"_id":"4EO2KQT4L5A6TE75IWSLUOHT5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1740664975965},"type":"text","content":"We all like to think that, confronted with a government of pure evil, we’d stand up and resist, whatever the cost. To put it bluntly, most of us are deluding ourselves. But Pavel Talankin, the titular Mr. Nobody of <a href=\"https://festivalplayer.sundance.org/sundance-film-festival-2025/play/675dce92982597c1bb199282\" target=\"_blank\">David Borenstein’s moving documentary</a> (Talankin himself codirected), is doing just that. An elementary school teacher in an obscure Russian mining town in the Ural Mountains, he becomes increasingly horrified at the rising militarism of Putin’s Russia and the effects it has on his students and his town and decides to use his video education program to document it all. His classroom becomes a safe haven for dissident students, providing a uniquely Russian twist on the old inspiring-iconoclastic-teacher tale. It’s an incredibly moving story."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"copyright":"All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute pro","address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"5778a4b1334be11ed6373038a0f8237c5b5dee6d4c9eeeb2bb089db192fe4d7a"},"caption":"A still from \"The Perfect Neighbor\" by Geeta Gandbhir.","source":{"system":"photo center","name":"AJC","edit_url":"","source_type":"staff","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","distributor":{"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019"},"version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/YJQS2RL3R5GOVHX4UW5F55SA7Q.jpg","licensable":false,"credits":{"affiliation":[],"by":[{"name":"Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute","type":"author","byline":"Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute"}]},"subtitle":"AAJC 030925 Paste Sundance","width":2560,"_id":"YJQS2RL3R5GOVHX4UW5F55SA7Q","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/YJQS2RL3R5GOVHX4UW5F55SA7Q.jpg?auth=5778a4b1334be11ed6373038a0f8237c5b5dee6d4c9eeeb2bb089db192fe4d7a","keywords":["geeta gandbhir","still","sundance 2025","the perfect neighbor"],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/v2/YJQS2RL3R5GOVHX4UW5F55SA7Q.jpg?auth=5778a4b1334be11ed6373038a0f8237c5b5dee6d4c9eeeb2bb089db192fe4d7a","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/YJQS2RL3R5GOVHX4UW5F55SA7Q.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/YJQS2RL3R5GOVHX4UW5F55SA7Q.jpg?auth=5778a4b1334be11ed6373038a0f8237c5b5dee6d4c9eeeb2bb089db192fe4d7a","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/YJQS2RL3R5GOVHX4UW5F55SA7Q.jpg?auth=5778a4b1334be11ed6373038a0f8237c5b5dee6d4c9eeeb2bb089db192fe4d7a&width=300","version":0,"originalName":"The_Perfect_Neighbor-Still_1.jpg","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"template_id":594,"galleries":[],"_id":"2IWIRVAIDZFHBCO5C5QCCQ56DE"},"created_date":"2025-02-27T17:59:49Z","last_updated_date":"2025-02-27T17:59:49Z","height":1441,"image_type":"photograph","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/YJQS2RL3R5GOVHX4UW5F55SA7Q.jpg?auth=5778a4b1334be11ed6373038a0f8237c5b5dee6d4c9eeeb2bb089db192fe4d7a&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"}},{"_id":"HDFGBXIY75BOXMGAXQ5TINP22I","additional_properties":{"_id":1740680553624},"type":"text","content":"<b>“The Perfect Neighbor”</b>"},{"_id":"Z6QRP7MXVVDXFPP2S3JAXFIGLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740664975967},"type":"text","content":"When I tell you that <a href=\"https://festivalplayer.sundance.org/sundance-film-festival-2025/play/675dedef57a2f3ba59827f91/6753325750e2a88c4d152b76\" target=\"_blank\">“The Perfect Neighbor,”</a> a story about a neighborhood conflict gone tragically wrong, is told nearly exclusively through bodycam and monitor footage, you’re sure to assume that the documentary will be difficult to engage with and that much of the connective tissue of the story will have to be provided by you as the viewer, an exhausting process. Nothing could be further from the truth. Geeta Gandbhir’s film would not have been improved one ounce by any additional footage, and the immediacy provided by the form brings its own rush and thrill. The story is gripping and tragic, and, with one notable exception, Gandbhir allows viewers to draw their own conclusions at every step along the way. And the people. Oh, those people. Even the minor characters are hugely compelling. My experience of watching “The Perfect Neighbor” was a parallel to that of watching Jason Osder’s all-found-footage masterpiece “Let the Fire Burn” — initial skepticism that the format could be pulled off, then amazement at how well it was done, then being completely immersed in the story without even thinking about technique. Bravo."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"copyright":"All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute pro","address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"c035b3e9a12ef9dd63be6bf654b608e38ca33571d49a4107d5f20b7e8be78c0b"},"caption":"A still from \"Predators\" by David Osit.","source":{"system":"photo center","name":"AJC","edit_url":"","source_type":"staff","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","distributor":{"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019"},"version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/3TITFQXMDZA4FGQT5IUK6U5V3E.jpg","licensable":false,"credits":{"affiliation":[],"by":[{"name":"Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute","type":"author","byline":"Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute"}]},"subtitle":"AAJC 030925 Paste Sundance","width":2560,"_id":"3TITFQXMDZA4FGQT5IUK6U5V3E","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/3TITFQXMDZA4FGQT5IUK6U5V3E.jpg?auth=c035b3e9a12ef9dd63be6bf654b608e38ca33571d49a4107d5f20b7e8be78c0b","keywords":["david osit","predators","still","sundance 2025"],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/v2/3TITFQXMDZA4FGQT5IUK6U5V3E.jpg?auth=c035b3e9a12ef9dd63be6bf654b608e38ca33571d49a4107d5f20b7e8be78c0b","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/3TITFQXMDZA4FGQT5IUK6U5V3E.jpg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/3TITFQXMDZA4FGQT5IUK6U5V3E.jpg?auth=c035b3e9a12ef9dd63be6bf654b608e38ca33571d49a4107d5f20b7e8be78c0b","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/3TITFQXMDZA4FGQT5IUK6U5V3E.jpg?auth=c035b3e9a12ef9dd63be6bf654b608e38ca33571d49a4107d5f20b7e8be78c0b&width=300","version":0,"originalName":"Predators-Still_1.jpg","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"template_id":594,"galleries":[],"_id":"Y2XYGX5IDVCFHN4KKEQFJDMHVM"},"created_date":"2025-02-27T17:55:18Z","last_updated_date":"2025-02-27T17:55:18Z","height":1441,"image_type":"photograph","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/3TITFQXMDZA4FGQT5IUK6U5V3E.jpg?auth=c035b3e9a12ef9dd63be6bf654b608e38ca33571d49a4107d5f20b7e8be78c0b&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"}},{"_id":"IOBPI4P3WJAH3BFEJG4WHKHKOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740680553627},"type":"text","content":"<b>“Predators”</b>"},{"_id":"S4YK44LJZ5CQRE6ZRLSXT4BDCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740664975969},"type":"text","content":"The word “brave” gets thrown around far too often in discussions of documentaries, but David Osit’s <a href=\"https://festival.sundance.org/blogs/predators-examines-the-tangled-legacy-of-to-catch-a-predator/\" target=\"_blank\">“Predators”</a> is a true work of bravery. It would have been an easy choice to tell a rah-rah story of how Chris Hansen’s hit show “To Catch a Predator” ensnared and humiliated men attempting to have clandestine rendezvous with underage boys and girls, and, indeed, for the first part of the film, it seems that’s just what we’re getting. But Osit has something much more profound in mind. The tide begins to turn with his examination of an infamous episode where the subject killed himself rather than be caught. Osit goes further and begins, counterintuitively, to examine how much good the show did, in fact, accomplish. In his attempts to discover more about the motivations of the men, he even manages to ask if we can somehow find it in ourselves to see their humanity. Along the way, we learn that Osit himself has good reason to seek those answers. It all builds to a dramatic climax where Osit is able to sit down with Hansen and challenge him on some of these issues. The aftermath of that interview, which closes the film, is quietly emotionally devastating. Earlier, in perhaps the most profound moment of any film at Sundance this year, a woman is booking a perp who is utterly devastated and destroyed, and she put a hand on his arm and says kindly, “You know what John? You’re going to live through this.” Any film that can make us think this hard about our preconceptions, and feel this much emotion as well, is a profound achievement indeed."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"copyright":"All photos are copyrighted and may be used by press only for the purpose of news or editorial coverage of Sundance Institute pro","address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"831ecdb28d788d20fb7b024d24ea2ebcde4170df50f908069a62b526c189f359"},"caption":"Laurence Leboeuf (left) and Karine Gonthier-Hyndman appear in \"Two Women\" by Chloé Robichaud.","source":{"system":"photo center","name":"AJC","edit_url":"","source_type":"staff","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","distributor":{"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019"},"version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/PSBLVWFBAVCO7ASFQSEEE7L3GM.jpeg","licensable":false,"credits":{"affiliation":[],"by":[{"name":"Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute/Sara Mishara","type":"author","byline":"Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute/Sara Mishara"}]},"subtitle":"AAJC 030925 Paste Sundance","width":2560,"_id":"PSBLVWFBAVCO7ASFQSEEE7L3GM","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/PSBLVWFBAVCO7ASFQSEEE7L3GM.jpeg?auth=831ecdb28d788d20fb7b024d24ea2ebcde4170df50f908069a62b526c189f359","keywords":["chloé robichaud","karine gonthier-hyndman","laurence leboeuf","still","sundance 2025","two women","world dramatic competition"],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/v2/PSBLVWFBAVCO7ASFQSEEE7L3GM.jpeg?auth=831ecdb28d788d20fb7b024d24ea2ebcde4170df50f908069a62b526c189f359","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/PSBLVWFBAVCO7ASFQSEEE7L3GM.jpeg","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/PSBLVWFBAVCO7ASFQSEEE7L3GM.jpeg?auth=831ecdb28d788d20fb7b024d24ea2ebcde4170df50f908069a62b526c189f359","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/v2/PSBLVWFBAVCO7ASFQSEEE7L3GM.jpeg?auth=831ecdb28d788d20fb7b024d24ea2ebcde4170df50f908069a62b526c189f359&width=300","version":1,"originalName":"Two_Women-Still1.jpeg","mime_type":"image/jpeg","restricted":false,"template_id":594,"galleries":[],"_id":"V5PHG54SZBAIVM7CK3GUGQLX6M"},"created_date":"2025-02-27T17:57:10Z","last_updated_date":"2025-02-27T17:57:23Z","height":1440,"image_type":"photograph","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/PSBLVWFBAVCO7ASFQSEEE7L3GM.jpeg?auth=831ecdb28d788d20fb7b024d24ea2ebcde4170df50f908069a62b526c189f359&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"}},{"_id":"T5JMEGN2NNHKXOALG5CQKAFJRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1740680553630},"type":"text","content":"<b>“Two Women”</b>"},{"_id":"DGI3ZWLTFNCCPME7QJ3Q5K56QU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740664975971},"type":"text","content":"At the outset of <a href=\"https://festival.sundance.org/blogs/two-women-wants-you-to-make-the-first-move-to-get-your-pleasure/\" target=\"_blank\">“Two Women,”</a> Violette (Laurence Leboeuf) calls in her neighbor Florence (a ferocious Karine Gonthier-Hyndman) to complain that she can hear her orgasms through the thin wall their apartments share. 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Lawmakers have indicated the cuts would help pay for President Donald Trump’s tax policy, which is expected to include permanent tax breaks for wealthy Americans."},{"_id":"YGLSRW4VTFAWBAJGFSE2PQHWEA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"On Jan. 31, Trump said he would <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/01/31/congress/trump-love-and-cherish-medicaid-00201893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">“love and cherish”</a> Social Security and Medicare — two programs that disproportionately provide financial support and care for older Americans — as well as Medicaid. "},{"_id":"GHVNAEVX4VGZ3IROKYPMVXHISE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“We’re not going to do anything with that, unless we can find some abuse or waste,” the president said. “The people won’t be affected. It will only be more effective and better.”"},{"_id":"TF6TELHUFZGZTLG34UMTQO6BHA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Nearly two weeks later, House Republicans formally tasked lawmakers who oversee the Medicaid budget to slash <a href=\"https://docs.house.gov/meetings/BU/BU00/20250213/117894/BILLS-119NAih.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">at least $880 billion in spending over 10 years</a>."},{"_id":"SJVP7LPTM5DS3NGDGOD3FHMJVY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Medicaid serves about one in five Americans, and its supporters note it was not a key policy discussion between the major party candidates during the 2024 presidential campaign. On the receiving end of potential reductions to Medicaid are people: families — in particular pregnant people, mothers, caregivers and children. Some of these children also have complex medical needs and disabilities that advocates say could be impacted if the federal government halts some of its existing financial support."},{"_id":"5KIKBXJOVZBUVCBXJKEL2TVWLQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"As the future of Medicaid funding continues to be a part of the national conversation, here’s what you need to know about how it currently ensures quality health and long-term care for large swaths of people."},{"level":2,"_id":"FTC6GQNS3JH2TIYETER2HC6VXU","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"How many people are on Medicaid, and who are they?"},{"_id":"QWKYIJROGRHU7DCB5AMQHYKRIM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.kff.org/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">About 72 million people are enrolled in Medicaid</a>, a program created <a href=\"https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/medicare-and-medicaid-act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">by law in 1965</a> that is funded by both the federal government and states to provide health insurance to low-income people, children, individuals with disabilities and some older Americans. <a href=\"https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/cost-sharing/index.html#:~:text=States%20have%20the%20option%20to,deductibles%2C%20and%20other%20similar%20charges.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Enrollees pay little to no money in premiums or fees</a> because they struggle to afford health care. "},{"_id":"FIS4JVSJV5FELHC6QMVXYUZCQY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"In addition, there is the <a href=\"https://www.medicaid.gov/chip/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP,</a> which ensures children whose parents earn too much to qualify for Medicaid — but are also priced out of affordable private insurance — are still able to access health care. That group represents about 7.2 million children, for a total of just under 80 million people on Medicaid."},{"_id":"FXT3ORTXRJCV5NKYKIOXECN5RM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Combining Medicaid and CHIP enrollment, nearly half of all people on Medicaid, 37.6 million, are children."},{"_id":"EIIYT64XPJCOTPA56FDCORL2ZE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Here is a breakdown of other enrollees, <a href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/12/10/webinar-federal-medicaid-cuts-whats-at-stake-for-children-and-families/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">according to available data</a>:"},{"list_type":"unordered","_id":"BMBWGYPCWBD3NDDR2L3LV4WA6M","type":"list","items":[{"_id":"2C73F4WQHJED5NBRK6PG77OFOI","additional_properties":{"indent":0},"alignment":"left","type":"text","content":"Parents and other adults under 65: 27.8 million"},{"_id":"UZMDV4645RCMRN6OC25O3PUTZY","additional_properties":{"indent":0},"alignment":"left","type":"text","content":"People with disabilities: 7.8 million"},{"_id":"VFDOZHAPH5GV7FPD7WQ3WYIH4I","additional_properties":{"indent":0},"alignment":"left","type":"text","content":"Individuals who are 65 and over: 5.6 million"}]},{"_id":"IEYZTAROTZDRDNR2NMTMQXZSPY","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"storyId":"","selectedStory":false,"sponsored":false,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Georgia Democrats push for Medicaid expansion, health care access","url":"https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-democrats-push-for-medicaid-expansion-health-care-access/OVIL7FAKABFZBE75PMQ4CMUY4Y/"},{"_id":"AZAOVAFEAZDQXJ7U7P2LNBAX4Q","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The impact of Medicaid on women’s health is in the data. The program covered 19% of adult women ages 19 to 64 <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/fact-sheet/womens-health-insurance-coverage/#:~:text=and%20preventive%20care.-,Medicaid,compared%20to%2014%25%20of%20men\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">in 2023</a>, compared to 14% of men. One<a href=\"https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/health-insurance-coverage-of-nonelderly-adult-women/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"> in five non-elderly women in the United States are enrolled in Medicaid</a>. Low-income parents who are on Medicaid are disproportionately women, according to Joan Alker, executive director of <a href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy</a>."},{"_id":"JRFUJLYU3VEENP5KSSG2MI2BR4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“There’s a lot of ways in which gender, and women in particular, are at risk when we have these kinds of proposals for broad cuts,” she said."},{"level":2,"_id":"YQMR56F2XND7PPQBQ6KVNWIEB4","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"What services does Medicaid offer for pregnant people and new parents?"},{"_id":"ZVO573YFSFASNMWTD4Z5KNXXMU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Medicaid provides health care coverage to low-income pregnant and postpartum people, a staple of the program since its inception nearly 60 years ago. Under Medicaid, pregnant people who need prenatal care are generally able to access <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/report/medicaid-coverage-of-pregnancy-related-services-findings-from-a-2021-state-survey/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">vitamins, doctor’s visits and ultrasounds</a> — benefits that improve the health of mothers and other caregivers."},{"_id":"3VDP2NMRNZFX5B2IVSON66M2YM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“People of reproductive age really can benefit from having that steady coverage and going into pregnancy healthier,” said Laura Harker, a senior policy analyst with <a href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities</a>. “So we really look at Medicaid across the reproductive journey.”"},{"_id":"RG673SEO7VBKXISZCFVFZU72GE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The program is credited with <a href=\"https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/benefits/downloads/2024-maternal-health-at-a-glance.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">covering more than 40% of all births in the country</a>. There are many variables to how much an uninsured person will actually pay for a birth, <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/health-costs-associated-with-pregnancy-childbirth-and-postpartum-care/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">but experts estimate</a> that a person with private insurance incurs an average of nearly $19,000 in health costs related to pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum care — and that can translate to nearly $3,000 in out-of-pocket costs."},{"_id":"FBV4K4YF7VCQBOVEFBEIIJTG6M","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"sponsored":false,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Cancer survivors ask lawmakers to expand Medicaid on World Cancer Day","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/health-news/for-world-cancer-day-advocates-ask-state-lawmakers-for-medicaid-expansion/EWF4FCLERRD53DJXRWY2FJCY2Y/"},{"_id":"QGO4FMAPVVFMPNCBZZPG6EGCQ4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"In short, Medicaid has served families for decades. "},{"_id":"X74AE6H7TFEV5O4PURPMHHXPDM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“It’s really hard to overstate the importance of Medicaid for kids and families,” said Maddie Twomey, communications director with <a href=\"https://www.protectourcare.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Protect Our Care</a>, a health care advocacy group. “You could rely on it at any point in your life.”"},{"_id":"U5GC6FPPKZE2BPUL5ZH2Z5HPWQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Under a provision in former President Joe Biden’s <a href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319/text#toc-HD0A062309C1143928EF82EC5845217C3/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">2021 American Rescue Plan Act</a>, states have recently been able to provide postpartum coverage for 12 months — up from a mandatory 60 days that had led <a href=\"https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2021-02/EnergyandCommerceReconciliationEstimate.pdf#page=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">about 45% of postpartum people</a> to become uninsured shortly after the birth of a child."},{"_id":"FEHDJLHXSZDZBPPWQVYTFHTNPA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0919-pregnancy-related-deaths.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">More than half of pregnancy-related deaths in America occur in the first year after a birth</a>, and these disparities <a href=\"https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/closing-the-coverage-gap-would-improve-black-maternal-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">disproportionately impact Black women</a>. "},{"_id":"6ZZAXMWISZBXXPOV2GFAGJ4PM4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"To date, <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-postpartum-coverage-extension-tracker/#note-0-44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">most states</a> have agreed to expand postpartum coverage, which experts believe could help address health disparities that cause pregnancy-related deaths. A year of postpartum coverage <a href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2022/12/15/early-research-shows-benefits-of-one-year-of-postpartum-medicaid-as-states-and-congress-consider/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">can also help</a> parents address postpartum depression, which may not appear for months, as well as medical debt."},{"_id":"53NCDAB75RAWFO4Y6LEIZWXXKY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Some policy experts caution about drawing definitive conclusions yet on the effects of the extended postpartum coverage period but agree that the U.S. maternal mortality rate remains stubbornly high — one estimate by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/maternal-deaths-and-mortality-rates-per-100000-live-births/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">put it at 23 deaths per 100,000 births between 2018 and 2022</a> — compared to <a href=\"https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/nov/maternal-mortality-maternity-care-us-compared-10-countries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">other countries</a>."},{"_id":"GJHRMI5ZI5F3DCUW32Q7HLOLIQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Health advocates worry that general cuts to the Medicaid program would inevitably impact whether as many states offer extended postpartum coverage as they try to offset the federal government reducing any matching funds it has provided. 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There are other benefits, too: <a href=\"https://ideas.repec.org/a/uwp/jhriss/v51y2016i3p727-759.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">a lower high school dropout rate, higher college enrollment and completion rates</a> and higher wages later in life."},{"_id":"FLINMDJXVVD4XBQWBOCFFW5JO4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“It’s one of these things that works so well, it’s ultimately a really good investment,” Twomey said."},{"_id":"TGDRCBE7LFCJ3DATSE4QHZQKDI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Medicaid also plays a major role in care for children with complex medical needs and disabilities. Data from 2019 estimated there are 13.9 million children with special health care needs in the country. Medicaid covers almost half of them, <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/children-with-special-health-care-needs-coverage-affordability-and-hcbs-access/#:~:text=Some%20children%20with%20special%20health,an%20optional%20disability%2Drelated%20pathway.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">according to KFF, a health policy research nonprofit</a>."},{"_id":"FQLGUEJYEVCSTAENASL63AIAWU","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"sponsored":false,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"As other states mull Medicaid work requirements, Georgia and Arkansas scale back","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/health-news/as-states-mull-medicaid-work-requirements-two-with-experience-scale-back/J5D52JHXKRGZRFJ2AE7I2DMV2A/"},{"_id":"GYHP5GFVFVDYDO4XT3D3Z2TVEY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Children (and adults) with such special health needs may require what’s known as long-term services and supports — which includes <a href=\"https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/home-community-based-services/home-community-based-services-authorities/home-community-based-services-1915c/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">home and community-based services</a>. <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/children-with-special-health-care-needs-coverage-affordability-and-hcbs-access/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Those services can include</a> attendant care, assistive technology, case management and private duty nursing which allows children to live at home with their families instead of institutionalized care. Depending on the state, Medicaid pays for many of those services when private insurance often does not."},{"_id":"C5ORJQU6GRFSXE3YRMLEW6TZ2I","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“It is the lifeline for children with complex medical needs and disabilities, unless you’re independently wealthy,” said Elena Hung, executive director and cofounder of <a href=\"https://littlelobbyists.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">Little Lobbyists</a>, a national advocacy organization for children with such needs."},{"_id":"QTWZ27GTRBCLJD2YPS7AAAO3SQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"School districts also use Medicaid dollars to provide certain medically-necessary services to eligible students under <a href=\"https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/individuals-disabilities/idea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">a federal disability law aimed at addressing education needs</a>. Medicaid dollars pay for professionals like speech-language pathologists, audiologists, occupational therapists, school psychologists and school social workers who provide services to eligible students. "},{"level":2,"_id":"HREP5NSWKVFZDLMO7Y7OCS6DEA","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"How else does Medicaid impact overall caregiving?"},{"_id":"KCLIGFNJSBCUDMOWSM6LT2MBYI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Medicaid <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/10-things-about-long-term-services-and-supports-ltss/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">covers half of all long-term care spending</a>, according to KFF. That care is key for women, <a href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5789901/#:~:text=on%20page%20642.-,Significance,biological%20environmental%20and%20social%20factors.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">who live longer than men</a>. In 2021, 20%<a href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/10-key-facts-about-women-with-medicare/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\"> of women</a> were dually enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid, a supplemental coverage setup that helps them and others pay for more of their care needs. "},{"_id":"EW6Z5QB7NNHYPMT6D75B5O4PAY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Medicaid pays for <a href=\"https://files.kff.org/attachment/Infographic-Medicaids-Role-in-Nursing-Home-Care\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">more than 60% of long-term care residents in nursing homes</a>, a population that is <a href=\"https://www.aaltci.org/long-term-care-insurance/learning-center/for-women.php#:~:text=More%20than%2070%20percent%20of,age%20at%20admission%20is%2080.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">heavily women</a>. Many in the care workforce <a href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/residential-long-term-care-workers/#:~:text=A%20large%20majority%20of%20residential,%25%20of%20the%20overall%20workforce).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">are also women</a>, and <a href=\"https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/C486_Future-of-Care-Work_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">largely women of color</a>. Their low wages mean <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/who-are-the-direct-care-workers-providing-long-term-services-and-supports-ltss/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">many rely on Medicaid for their own health care coverage</a>."},{"_id":"TKU5F2WAMFBNVEL5H4NMABK5RI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“It’s permeating so many different aspects of our health care system that relate to caregiving,” said Alker, who noted just over half of Medicaid spending goes to seniors and people with disabilities."},{"_id":"PK33UH7KKBEYJKUDWFYWE7WXB4","additional_properties":{"nofollow":false,"selectedStory":false,"sponsored":false,"openInNewTab":true},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Inside the ‘big deal’ battle for Georgia’s multibillion-dollar Medicaid contract","url":"https://www.ajc.com/politics/inside-the-big-deal-battle-for-georgias-multibillion-dollar-medicaid-contract/ZWBDMVJBTJH63PTDE6NPS2JBAY/"},{"_id":"CV5QNLKKIZGVPBV44OFIQ2P6Y4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Over several years, most states and the District of Columbia <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">have also expanded who qualifies for their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act</a>. Getting rid of that expansion is among the proposed cuts by congressional Republicans, to the tune of $561 billion over 10 years. Alker said overall reductions to the program is likely to impact all enrollees and that it would be detrimental to children."},{"_id":"GZMELB65AJARNEIJHILEQATBYU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“They’re not protecting children by pulling out hundreds of billions of dollars from the most important program there is for children’s health, because states would not be able to make up for these kinds of losses,” she said. “States would be left in an extremely untenable position. So fiscally, it’s a huge risk to children.”"},{"level":2,"_id":"YPLHWG6VWNA37EDXTGP3PGIIPI","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"Is Medicaid popular?"},{"_id":"MDO7NYCVIJFFZHJ6D2TMA3I5P4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Yes, it’s a popular program among a majority of Americans, <a href=\"https://www.kff.org/health-costs/poll-finding/kff-health-tracking-poll-public-weighs-health-care-spending-and-other-priorities-for-incoming-administration/?utm_campaign=KFF-Polling-Surveys&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-82xJ_QZ0vv5mrIwtv2EmhFrYLRDLbzg8Wod90RFwfDDLIqN3b4xS3EDqfBkjOEx4ZUZqEBGulI_Pt6RmzBwoGvQ_ogxA&_hsmi=342959796&utm_content=342959796&utm_source=hs_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">according to KFF polling</a> that was conducted in January ahead of Trump’s inauguration. The findings show 77% of respondents view the Medicaid program favorably. That included 63% of Republicans."},{"_id":"FZYGSKGZMZFC5BBFIDVOIFSHLI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The poll also found nearly half of all people say the federal government is not spending enough on Medicare and Medicaid."},{"level":2,"_id":"TELJ4T5GYVA2ROEB5DHVKPYIYE","additional_properties":{},"type":"header","content":"Is there fraud in Medicaid?"},{"_id":"DNOPKUBYO5HDBA3ZTLYH5YHPLQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-aides-search-medicare-agency-payment-systems-fraud-wsj-reports-2025-02-05/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">There are reports</a> that Elon Musk, designated by Trump to cut the size of the federal government even though those efforts so far include trying to halt the flow of money already appropriated by Congress, has been given access to technology and spending information on Medicare and Medicaid — programs housed under the federal health department. Musk claimed on X: “Yeah, this is where the big money fraud is happening.”"},{"_id":"7HT6XSMAGFCW5L4IYGD6XZJ3GI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The scope of fraud in health care <a href=\"https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/10/the-truth-about-fraud-against-medicaid/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">is nuanced</a> but is not often committed by regular people who are Medicaid enrollees. According to an estimate by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families, 95% of Medicaid payments are proper payments for care. There are also already systems in place, <a href=\"https://oig.hhs.gov/documents/hcfac/10087/HHS%20OIG%20FY%202023%20HCFAC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\">including through the federal government</a>, to catch and prosecute fraud and forms of mismanagement."},{"_id":"OEW7YP6AEVEO7CRWQLOQUSZEXA","additional_properties":{},"alignment":"center","type":"text","content":" "}],"subheadlines":{"basic":"The popular public health care program for low-income Americans covers nearly half of all births in America. 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The Gainesville campus is currently home to the northernmost Level 1 trauma center in the state."},{"_id":"7UTZ3GAXQRH2FKHULV7FFOQ4QQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The new building is 927,000 square feet and 11 stories tall and includes an expanded emergency department on the first floor and a helipad on the roof. The facility sits to the north of NGMC’s Blue Tower, formerly known as the North Patient Tower."},{"_id":"VLPJTGD22RAEZMZNRZVHBZYWGA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The Green Tower’s expanded emergency department is designed to provide faster and more efficient patient care. 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Low income students with less than $500 in college savings are three times more likely to enroll in college and four times more likely to graduate than those with none, <a href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EvDvGGe4pAffLVC50Xx7AeQQTGLDEpv0/view\">according to research from the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis</a>."},{"_id":"FPNG4ETIDBAIRGGEV575KB3F3A","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The $150 could go towards college or other forms of workforce training. The program will begin with students enrolled in the 2024-2025 school year and will be available to children in kindergarten and sixth, seventh and eighth grades. It’s a one-time contribution that will be available to new kindergartners and sixth graders in future years of the pilot. 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The Benwood Foundation, the Maclellan Foundation, the BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Foundation, Pinnacle Bank, the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga and the Bobby Stone Foundation are among the donors."},{"_id":"KM2Q3D3DMBH7FI7NMARGJ5NXUA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Randolph anticipates <a href=\"https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/jun/20/chattanooga-distributes-another-24-million-tfp/\">the city of Chattanooga will provide $200,000</a> annually for five years, and officials expect Hamilton County leaders will consider funding for the program sometime in the future."},{"_id":"VB62NZUCWFGSBB3UGGEINMPICY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Once the system is set up, Randolph said, employers will have a way to invest directly in students, placing money in savings accounts at specific schools or for their employees’ kids."},{"_id":"IP2GJTA3UBFJJP4ECZCW3BBVDU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“There’s a lot of room for business engagement,” she said."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"copyright":"2023 Chattanooga Times Free Press","address":{"locality":"Chattanooga","region":"TN"},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"3b7a43c9bd6a8a60aaf5a8025e2bad76877c248450a56ee0104bff345eb6215e"},"caption":"FILE: Teachers help students find their schedules on the first day of school at Dalewood Middle School on Wednesday, August 9, 2023. 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Randolph compares the initiatives to the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, a program that mails free books to children from birth to five years old regardless of family income."},{"_id":"ZQDFTK64LBGRDGC4HMY3KMBQ3Y","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“All kids need opportunity,” she said."},{"_id":"OBZ5SJTDMFCUVA3TNRPNVNQYC4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Some people push back on the amount of money set aside, Randolph said, but even $150 can be a make-or-break expense for families."},{"_id":"V6OMOEZP6RBIVNY7CM4UTTTMVA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The average ask from Chattanooga State Community College’s Helping Hands Fund, which is reserved for students facing financial emergencies, is about $300, Randolph said. 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Previously, the American refugee system was patchwork, allowing for only 17,400 “conditional entries” per year for people from communist countries or the Middle East. Outside of this, presidents could grant refugees temporary parole, but weren’t able to offer a pathway to permanent residency."},{"_id":"RR567GSIPFHDDI73NRUDZ573QE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394908},"type":"text","content":"The 1980 Refugee Act created the Office of Refugee Resettlement, raised the annual ceiling for refugees to 50,000, and established a process for reviewing and adjusting that ceiling to meet emergencies. It also brought the U.S. definition of “refugee” in line with standards established by the United Nations, which considered a refugee a person with a “well-founded fear of persecution.” In the year following the act’s passage, the U.S. <a href=\"https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/refugee-act-1980-forlorn-anniversary\">welcomed more than 200,000 refugees</a>. As John Slocum, the executive director of Refugee Council USA, <a href=\"https://rcusa.org/news-and-media/rcusa-commemorates-president-jimmy-carters-legacy-on-refugee-and-humanitarian-protection/\">said in a statement</a> following Carter’s death, “President Carter’s vision and commitment to refugees reminds us that our national leaders can and should demonstrate bold leadership in upholding our moral and legal obligations to people who have been forced from their homes.”"},{"_id":"NYQWGFPXH5FJ3KCPRIDU6HZVXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394909},"type":"text","content":"The creation of the Office of Refugee Resettlement had major impacts in the Atlanta metro: The area around Clarkston alone has been home to <a href=\"https://www.unrefugees.org/news/five-things-to-know-about-refugees-in-atlanta/\">more than 60,000 refugees</a> since the act’s passage. 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Since then, Boat People SOS—which opened <a href=\"https://bpsos.org/georgia\">an Atlanta chapter</a> in the early 2000s—has expanded its mission to aid immigrants, combat sex trafficking and domestic violence, provide legal services to Asian communities in the U.S., and more."},{"_id":"RQQZRLCGHFCWRAUGXTMN26MEYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394911},"type":"text","content":"285 South spoke with Trinh Pham, the executive director of the Georgia chapter of Boat People SOS, about the 1980 Refugee Act and its effects on the work of her organization—and on Georgia’s refugee communities generally. 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The majority of them were settled in refugee camps in Thailand, Indonesia, and Singapore."},{"_id":"Q4WW4QBHMVB3LKJWPS5QOG4PAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394914},"type":"text","content":"Many Vietnamese who were U.S. citizens, or came from European or Westernized countries, came together to form a group—they did a lot of advocacy to rescue people. At the time, they advocated for policies to resettle those refugees to the U.S. or Westernized countries."},{"_id":"5RONEWLHXJDYDFX2GET67ZMFYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394915},"type":"text","content":"Originally, the organization was formed in 1980 to respond to the needs of Vietnamese refugees escaping from the country. They did a lot of advocacy [and] raised financial support, and they sent a lot of volunteers, lawyers, and doctors to the refugee camp to help those people."},{"_id":"OYOPB2R3VRD5ZD5RRELQDAUTM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394916},"type":"text","content":"We still do a lot of advocacy. 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Due to the act, there are so many different Vietnamese refugees who were resettled in this country that originally dreamed of escaping from their country and getting out of the communist regime. Based on the act, they could safely achieve their dream to be in the U.S.—and to be in Georgia specifically. Georgia was a promising land for many refugees at the time."},{"_id":"JTCHJPQUERHBVH3XNJN4GEUCGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394919},"type":"text","content":"<b>Q: Can you expand on that?</b>"},{"_id":"TYH3D5VHM5CXTAQKSX4NYC72SM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394920},"type":"text","content":"<b>Pham: </b>A long time ago, the Vietnamese tended to gather where there were the most Vietnamese, which is in the Los Angeles area. They even have the Little Saigon in California that’s still the biggest Vietnamese community there. But due to the economy and the cost of living, the Vietnamese refugees that came to the country after the 1990s—the majority of them—couldn’t find California as a good land to resettle anymore."},{"_id":"YQ6HFKYOIVDWVCHH26EI5OA6QA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394921},"type":"text","content":"They came to Georgia. That’s why we say Georgia is still the best place for refugees, for Vietnamese. Many of them are very successful because of the cost of living, housing, job market, and school system. So many families are very successful now, with their kids growing up and becoming professionals."},{"_id":"TLWI47MGYFC3LD5MYOC7A4CCRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394922},"type":"text","content":"<b>Q: Can you explain what the work that Boat People SOS–Atlanta does in Georgia today?</b>"},{"_id":"46GG5QIZLJDVJD7ERSJL6YBVVU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394923},"type":"text","content":"<b>Pham: </b>The majority of Vietnamese people in the U.S. are somehow related to boat people refugees. We don’t have Vietnamese boat refugees anymore, but the organization has been established for more than 40 years [and is] still committed to the mission [of] helping the people to meet their daily needs. In Georgia, we help with domestic services and programs like helping people adjust to life in the country. We provide, for instance, services like interpretation, or [if families] still [have] some relatives in Vietnam, [we help them] sponsor their family members [and] reunite [them] in the U.S. We have domestic violence programs because due to language barriers and cultural barriers, [people] still need help. We do a lot of community health, prevention, and education. We also assist people applying for benefits or enrolling them in a healthcare system."},{"_id":"XGZOXDYT6VCHRNNUEUIW6WPX64","additional_properties":{"_id":"BWEBH44PCVGVHBEUAWRELMU4JE"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Refugees and their advocates see a champion in Jimmy Carter","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/refugees-and-their-advocates-see-a-champion-in-jimmy-carter/RP372YPQE5CCTMISBWLA6VOLPY/"},{"_id":"IGDZ34NL4NEE7HDTCYGQMR4BIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394924},"type":"text","content":"<b>Q: How big is the Vietnamese community in Atlanta?</b>"},{"_id":"TF53Q4XFEFBCLJ7PZWN732FM7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394925},"type":"text","content":"<b>Pham:</b> In the metro area, based on the latest census numbers, we have about 55,000 to 60,000 Vietnamese. But as a community organization, we believe the number could be double or triple, because with our experience, we know that our population does not really participate in the census. We are considered an undercounted community. Every census term, we try to partner with the Census Bureau and other community organizations to educate people to respond so that we have the true number."},{"_id":"WYWDEOJZ5NDG5NB3WTT7UYCXJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394926},"type":"text","content":"<b>Q: Where is the Vietnamese community mostly located?</b>"},{"_id":"EQ3BMJCCQ5BJ7ECAVYPIJS25KE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394927},"type":"text","content":"<b>Pham:</b> Currently in Gwinnett County. Back then, when the Vietnamese first came to the U.S., <a href=\"https://285south.com/welcome-corps-launched-just-a-year-ago-relies-on-private-citizens-to-support-arriving-refugees/\">refugee agencies</a> like Catholic Charities or International Rescue Committee located them in DeKalb County. DeKalb County is still considered ideal for refugee populations. The low-income apartments and the transportation are very convenient. But recently, when their kids grow up, they get a better education and better income, they tend to move to the Gwinnett County area."},{"_id":"SUBPIA5MERHFLA6NJM4WEKG3LU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394928},"type":"text","content":"That’s why our office moved along with our community. We used to be in the DeKalb area on Bufford Highway, but then the community moved forward to the Gwinnett area, so we moved towards the Gwinnett area in 2011 to serve our community."},{"_id":"DIOLVZYSW5FTHALDS2WX6BDLRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394929},"type":"text","content":"<b>Q: Is there anything else you want to add about the 1980 Refugee Act?</b>"},{"_id":"CT4V3Q43JRCZTO3RPHDNWUKEHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736435394930},"type":"text","content":"<b>Pham:</b> Our community really appreciates the Refugee Act passed in 1980 and we always say we owe former president Jimmy Carter a thank you and appreciation. 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A large portion of that heat exposure transfers directly from consumers to those making the deliveries—and many workers lack mitigation options or health insurance to protect them."},{"_id":"6CSXWSC4JRBNHA6LNBT7TVGVDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1736373894157},"type":"text","content":"<b>Get it while it’s hot</b>"},{"_id":"HWXZFENRNRDNXD5O67D6YPFOPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1736373894158},"type":"text","content":"China hosts the world’s largest market for food delivery, with around <a href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/17/business/china-food-delivery-drivers-meltdowns-intl-hnk/index.html\">12 million riders</a> reaching more than <a href=\"https://daxueconsulting.com/o2o-food-delivery-market-in-china\">500 million urban citizens</a> across the country."},{"_id":"XSGUU2SHMNCRHJDQCQHCTEI2NQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1736373894159},"type":"text","content":"A study published in the journal <a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-024-00172-z\">Nature Cities</a> found that residents in China frequently tap into this network of delivery services when a heat wave hits."},{"_id":"RRBOREYGCJAVTB7PJXSKAYXFQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1736373894160},"type":"text","content":"Analyzing food delivery data on one of the main platforms across 100 Chinese cities from 2017 to 2023, the researchers documented an almost 13 percent surge in lunchtime orders when temperatures rose from 68 degrees Fahrenheit to 95 degrees. 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The number of nuns, also called religious sisters, serving in the United States declined by 80% from 1965 (178,740) to 2023 (35,680) despite the number of Catholics affiliated with a parish increasing by 53% during the same time span (from 44.3 million to 67.8 million) and the number of priests seeing a more gradual decline of 43% (from 59,426 to 34,092), according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C."},{"_id":"CF5MPB3FFRCGBJ2XXFKLYZRR5E","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The decline in the number of nuns is attributed to several reasons, according to <a href=\"http://patheos.com/\" target=\"_blank\">patheos.com</a>, a website exploring issues of religion and spirituality. Most of the reasons are linked to the expanded career options Catholic women have now compared to six decades ago."},{"_id":"ZFUGGBRJNZF7RMOTN3N3EZYX3U","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"<b>Sisters of Mercy arrive in Columbus</b>"},{"_id":"7IWE7JF2B5CDFDDQ32MZG5M7ZY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The Sisters of Mercy started serving Columbus in 1862, one year into the Civil War, when five nuns came by wagon from St. Augustine, Florida."},{"_id":"T4ERDP4CEFA2DAXTMRSDUFLVKU","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"According to the order’s research, the sisters named the school they opened in Columbus after St. Joseph because they prayed to him along their journey, and they were thankful to arrive safely."},{"_id":"CV3PTYTPBVBKRHGGWDJ5B3CSBM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"During the Civil War, in addition to teaching, the nuns used St. Joseph Academy as a place to nurse the wounded, especially women and children."},{"_id":"OMOXLP2WM5EKBNDN4GQXF3PKNA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"In 1952, St. Joseph Academy closed, but Holy Family School opened to continue Catholic education in Columbus. 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Even “green consumers” who are aware of the environmental costs of online shopping <a href=\"https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9021112&fileOId=9021124\">increase consumption during the holiday season</a>. This behavior is part of the reason that researchers estimate returns from online purchases are double to quadruple those in a physical store. A <a href=\"https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/nrf-and-happy-returns-report-2024-retail-returns-total-890-billion\">new report from the National Retail Federation</a> projects that consumers will return around $890 billion worth of products in 2024."},{"_id":"444CNNVYGRG2BBFXBUQ4TWF3EQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440829},"type":"text","content":"While companies are increasingly <a href=\"https://time.com/7086071/supply-chain-decarbonization/\">streamlining their production lines</a> to reduce carbon emissions before a product reaches the consumer, the carbon footprint of the “reverse supply chain” that occurs after a person returns an item is a bit of a black box, according to <a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01246-9\">a 2021 comment published in the journal Nature Climate Change</a>."},{"_id":"VNA5VDA3BNCJJNTSC3YOBUBLS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440830},"type":"text","content":"“Information for product returns related to online shopping supply chains, transport, routes and quantities is insufficient, making it difficult to monitor the carbon emissions of this process,” the paper’s authors wrote. “The true value of the environmental burden is thus unknown.”"},{"_id":"5K6U4WPX4NE5FGYBHGFEET35EU","additional_properties":{"_id":"NHNX6AB25FFQFF5T5PF7ZREG3E"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Shop local this holiday","url":"https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/shop-local-this-holiday-here-are-gift-suggestions-to-help-with-your-list/WGVVYMQPIZCXPNZGOHQVHOF6VY/"},{"_id":"UNTTSROLBJE5DIHGFJ6RNPFGQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440831},"type":"text","content":"Some studies suggest that inefficiencies and volume of returns can add up to over 30 percent of the carbon emissions of the initial deliveries. A <a href=\"https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378288401_The_Hidden_Cost_Understanding_the_Environmental_Impact_of_Online_Purchase_Returns#:~:text=The%20majority%20of%20returned%20items,annually%20in%20the%20US%20alone.\">2023 report</a> found that transporting returns generated more than 15 million metric tons of carbon emissions annually from the U.S. alone. That’s equivalent to the carbon produced by almost 3.5 million gas-powered cars in a full year."},{"_id":"INWQYGAOPFB7NFTSALDFXU44CI","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440832},"type":"text","content":"Often it is cheaper for companies to throw away a product than try to resell it, so much of this inventory is donated or <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/02/as-americans-send-back-millions-of-holiday-gifts-theres-a-hidden-environmental-cost\">ends up in landfills around the world</a>. People in the U.S. generate more waste in December than in any other month, <a href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-to-reduce-holiday-waste-sustainable-gift-giving/\">CBS News reports</a>."},{"_id":"AVANHN5MXBGGREA4GJEFY3FWIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440833},"type":"text","content":"<b>Curbing returns</b>"},{"_id":"5SEYV5LV65HYRMVIL3WUK7WUQE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Sales during Cyber Week—the deal-heavy shopping stint starting on Thanksgiving—reached record highs this November. An <a href=\"https://news.adobe.com/news/2024/12/120324-adi-cyber-monday-recap\">Adobe Analytics analysis</a> of e-commerce throughout the five-day period revealed consumers spent a total of $13.3 billion on “Cyber Monday,” and online <a href=\"https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/2024-holiday-spending-expected-reach-new-record\">sales are expected to continue surging</a> through the rest of the holiday season."},{"_id":"JHYJEUB4ARG3JHGHLST555BC5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440834},"type":"text","content":"But returns are rarely as well-tracked, the 2021 comment finds. Businesses must improve product return data collection to get a better sense of the true emission burden associated with them, the authors write. They add that companies can reduce returns by improving a shopper’s experience with more detailed and specific descriptions of the product."},{"_id":"W7PCA574DNE75J3CDPKDKTMKHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440835},"type":"text","content":"“Companies should be transparent and realistic about qualities such as the aesthetics and performance of products to avoid false expectation,” the authors write."},{"_id":"ZMQ43AISLJEOFHBU7LH7552OSI","additional_properties":{"_id":"HB5AUNXNTRASZDHH32BZ4ACJDU"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Not liking that sweater? Here’s what to know about store return policies","url":"https://www.ajc.com/things-to-do/atlanta-winter-guide/not-liking-that-sweater-heres-what-to-know-about-return-policies/IOWMEOPEH5F6DD7Q7PLKUIPIXE/"},{"_id":"OGS4ZWDSQ5A7HDQ44C5UTTDYVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440836},"type":"text","content":"Individuals can also help stem the flood of returns following the holiday season. According to sustainability experts, one of the simplest solutions is to make sure people actually want the gift you are planning to buy them through detailed wish lists."},{"_id":"XR3KG3T7OJFNBIYIUNENWO2OVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440837},"type":"text","content":"“I’ve found that older family members are particularly resistant to this because it goes against their ideas about gift-giving,” Laura Wittig, co-founder of the conscious consumerism brand Brightly, <a href=\"https://www.fastcompany.com/90699840/holiday-gift-returns-are-an-environmental-nightmare-here-are-5-ways-to-avoid-them\">told Fast Company in 2021</a>. “But over time, people get used to it and appreciate it.”"},{"_id":"XXDBCPSMA5EULNUZW43UGUQT3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440838},"type":"text","content":"Alternatively, people can eliminate the waste-filled return risk altogether by gifting experiences rather than products."},{"_id":"MNCTEYVI4RH63BXNJG4XKADCNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440839},"type":"text","content":"“Christmas doesn’t need to be defined by consumption to feel special,” Kim writes. “By making a few mindful and sustainable choices, we can fill our holidays with more meaning, joy, and connection.”"},{"_id":"OG7OYWLQRZDLFJV2UID7HDS5VU","additional_properties":{"_id":"7SA67YMTZ5BQ7IGAGFXUYHBBMU"},"type":"divider"},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"41cd05620f4a2803ded8b4b76b6ed141a5e4e0aba7ea8776ec432cf3fe055a97"},"caption":"","source":{"system":"photo center","name":"AJC","edit_url":"","source_type":"staff","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","distributor":{"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019"},"version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png","licensable":false,"credits":{"affiliation":[{"name":"contributed","type":"author"}],"by":[{"name":"contributed","type":"author","byline":"contributed"}]},"subtitle":"Inside Climate News logo","width":1426,"creditIPTC":"contributed","_id":"BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/fq7uWUnilczoxop_YgC6ZDecuQ0=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png","keywords":[],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/fq7uWUnilczoxop_YgC6ZDecuQ0=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/fq7uWUnilczoxop_YgC6ZDecuQ0=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/1-N3OWJPD-og4Ww3qoBH7nIuNuo=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png","version":0,"originalName":"Inside Climate News logo.png","mime_type":"image/png","restricted":false,"template_id":594,"galleries":[],"_id":"GOWVMUTU5FBWVFK3PIGH4BKWZE"},"created_date":"2022-10-18T22:30:55Z","last_updated_date":"2022-10-18T22:30:55Z","height":1426,"image_type":"photograph","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png?auth=41cd05620f4a2803ded8b4b76b6ed141a5e4e0aba7ea8776ec432cf3fe055a97&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"}},{"_id":"JUQKK5PAI5C63MMNCVIUVM4TOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440842},"type":"text","content":"MEET OUR PARTNER"},{"_id":"NNW4YHO7EVEHNPEQGWZFCHJ2BM","additional_properties":{"_id":1735658440843},"type":"text","content":"This article comes from our partner <a href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Climate News</a>, the Pulitzer prize-winning nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. 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PFAS in the industrial wastewater then ended up in treatment plants operated by Dalton Utilities and was then dispersed through its “land application system.”"},{"_id":"AAQRPM5FQ5AFPJNO7JMJAQM5D4","additional_properties":{"_id":1734534090894},"type":"text","content":"Used for years because of their resistance to heat and stains, PFAS, also known as “forever chemicals,” have resilient chemical bonds that take a long time to break down naturally. 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I like its tight structure and details, such as how she had to go to “school two times in one day,” recording what the teacher said during class; and then going home and listening to the recording again. The cost was high and heartbreaking: “To this day I’ve never been out to a movie theatre with friends, ever,” Ortiz reveals. “I didn’t have time to have fun.” <a href=\"https://ctmirror.org/2024/09/29/cant-read-high-school-ct-hartford/\">Read the full story here</a>. <i>- Selected by Joanne Wasserman, The 74</i>"},{"_id":"X65KRT5WSZEQTHHPWI53JKQNCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831016},"type":"text","content":"<b>2. 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Private schools, typically located in wealthier areas, remain out of reach geographically, with some facing two-hour city bus routes or $30 cab rides each way. While the reporting in this story is data-driven, the storytelling stays rooted in empathy for the daily lives and concerns of three families who were eager to use the state’s voucher system to pursue a better education for their children, but ultimately gave up on the idea. Instead, the article points out, many parents are coming together to make their own public schools better. <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-school-vouchers-esa-private-schools\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story here</a>. <i>- Selected by Marianna McMurdock, The 74</i>"},{"_id":"ZNFBTIZRBFESLFK2QD4Q25PILY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831020},"type":"text","content":"<b>3. 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A model of how local stories can bring awareness to national issues, Bloom skillfully weaved in meticulous data and the history of the school."},{"_id":"YXN5MY22MJAXHOXGTZVLD26FVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831023},"type":"text","content":"After a year of headlines decrying the “disengaged student,” it was heartening to read about students so committed and passionate about learning that they refused to let the school’s shortcomings disrupt their education. I will be thinking often about Carolina Carchi, the 15-year-old who taught her classmates about the properties of liquids and solids and how to balance chemical equations. 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As part of a wide-ranging, <a href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/topic/college-conundrum/\">nine-part series</a>, the reporter followed several seniors in comparatively remote districts across Central and Eastern Oregon, artfully uncovering their reasons for holding pat rather than signing up for more years of schooling."},{"_id":"TQ3GVRCH4ZGTHL4URROQGQ44CQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831032},"type":"text","content":"Some of the boys Edge encounters say they and their friends feel financially pressured to defer their plans for college, citing either the high cost of tuition or the need to assume responsibility at family farms. But others — including the main subjects of her story, a high school valedictorian and his close friend — simply seem adrift. Maybe they’ll enroll in an apprenticeship, or else take a job at a gas station; maybe they’ll study music, or move East to live with a long-distance romantic partner. Readers will finish the piece with a better understanding of social trends in parts of Oregon that might otherwise be overlooked, but they also gain a sense of the generational ambivalence toward higher education that has taken hold far beyond the Pacific Northwest. <a href=\"https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2024/06/in-rural-oregon-boys-are-not-choosing-college-thats-widening-the-urban-rural-divide.html\">Read the full story here</a>. - <i>Selected by Kevin Mahnken, The 74</i>"},{"_id":"O73R5GAVWNHNVBEFEFNG7ELFQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831033},"type":"text","content":"<b>6. 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Shrub Oak International School, which opened in 2018 in Westchester County, New York, enrolls students with autism, including kids who have behavioral challenges and complex medical needs and who other schools have turned away."},{"_id":"D3T4CKUQABHCXLVFTWCCVVWPFU","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831041},"type":"text","content":"Shrub Oak is one of the most expensive therapeutic boarding schools in America, with tuition as high as $316,400 per year, ProPublica found. Despite lacking any meaningful oversight from the state, the school still receives public money from districts across the country. Beyond the financial component, the lack of regulation has allowed the school to renege on promises to parents and has resulted in several alleged incidents of abuse and neglect. Pulling from court documents, interviews with nearly 30 families and dozens of workers, ProPublica’s Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi S. Cohen present a compelling and gutting investigation about what happens when a school meant to protect and educate students in need falls through the cracks of regulatory oversight and fails the people who need its services most. <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/shrub-oak-school-autism-new-york-education-oversight\">Read the full story here</a>.<i> - Selected by Amanda Geduld, The 74</i>"},{"_id":"HNB7SCAU7FFQBINDZWHF7EFIUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831042},"type":"text","content":"<b>8. ‘They Have to Have Known’: Hawaii Scrambles for Solutions to School Bus Driver Shortage</b>"},{"_id":"LQKMCNL6GRC7RDUD3LFR6PBHO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831043},"type":"text","content":"<i>By Megan Tagami, Honolulu Civil Beat</i>"},{"_id":"E6GW4BSBDBD73M4KQZ6TJURHDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831044},"type":"text","content":"School bus driver shortages remained<a href=\"https://www.epi.org/blog/the-school-bus-driver-shortage-remains-severe-and-bus-driver-pay-is-getting-worse/\"> “severe”</a> in 2024, and education reporters did their part to cover the chaos. Stories described students waiting hours for buses that never came and districts recruiting lunchroom staff and office clerks to drive. But Megan Tagami of Hawaii’s Civil Beat broke down the reason why the state education department kept canceling and combining routes at the last minute — its heavy reliance on contracts with private bus companies instead of owning its own fleet and hiring its own drivers. One contractor, in particular, failed to notify the department that it would be unable to fulfill more than 100 of its routes until just weeks before the school year started."},{"_id":"PXIM4U4ABZF3FDORYTZW66V6X4","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831045},"type":"text","content":"Tagami showed how transportation costs in Hawaii have skyrocketed — in part because the state’s education department increased the size of its bus contracts to avoid these hassles and reimburses parents for driving their kids to school. The piece offered readers a valuable, local angle on a national problem that is disruptive for families and impacts learning time for students. <a href=\"https://www.civilbeat.org/2024/08/they-have-to-have-known-hawaii-scrambles-for-solutions-to-school-bus-driver-shortage/\">Read the full story here</a>. <i>- Selected by Linda Jacobson, The 74</i>"},{"_id":"JJPPQGZSDBFTTD23JJW2XAK6P4","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831046},"type":"text","content":"<b>9. Schools Are Using Surveillance Tech to Catch Students Vaping, Snaring Some With Harsh Punishments</b>"},{"_id":"NW5CNF5JK5AEXKGP7AUTNBQZAU","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831047},"type":"text","content":"<i>By Jacqueline Munis & Ella McCarthy, Associated Press</i>"},{"_id":"GQE6RRN5UNAOLPBKOHL2Q3WWTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831048},"type":"text","content":"Smokin’ in the boys’ room is a thing of the past — and now it appears vaping is, too. In an article for The Associated Press, Jacqueline Munis and Ella McCarthy reveal the startling degree to which schools nationwide deploy “vape detection” surveillance tools to sniff out students’ electronic cigarette use in school bathrooms. Schools have spent millions of dollars on sensors designed to detect e-cigarette vapor and surveillance cameras that capture the students-turned-suspects on their way out of the facilities. Along with privacy concerns, the censors have led to harsh discipline for students, including in-school suspensions and even felony charges. <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/vaping-surveillance-technology-schools-982128348c683b9d54c7a307c5b1fdc6\">Read the full story here</a>. <i>- Selected by Mark Keierleber, The 74</i>"},{"_id":"FKTG4WJB35APBPKLGWY5TXV2FI","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831049},"type":"text","content":"<b>10. Louisiana AG Sues Feds to Undo Longstanding Disability Protections</b>"},{"_id":"NBEA5DBJGFGQXEXEPNADXL262I","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831050},"type":"text","content":"<i>By Marta Jewson, The Lens</i>"},{"_id":"ZAXX54GRAVGSZFZOOWT4ZDYSUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831051},"type":"text","content":"This story by Marta Jewson of the New Orleans nonprofit The Lens is a masterclass on the value of pushing beyond a news item’s top, four-alarm takeaway to probe for broader potential ramifications. Few other outlets so much as noticed that in September Louisiana joined 16 other states in suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, arguing that gender dysphoria — a medical diagnosis sometimes made when a person’s gender identity differs from the gender they were assigned at birth — should not be considered a disability. Jewson’s story not only reported that the lawsuit could dismantle portions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which provides key protections to people in schools and in employment, housing, public services and many other spheres of society. And at a moment when much “culture war” reporting focuses on adult politics, she made a point to include the voices of students who could be impacted by this lawsuit in multiple ways. <a href=\"https://thelensnola.org/2024/10/28/louisiana-ag-sues-feds-to-undo-longstanding-disability-protections/\">Read the full story here</a>. <i>- Selected by Beth Hawkins, The 74</i>"},{"_id":"XZDJ4PLKWJEDBMCA6Q7NTXLR44","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831052},"type":"text","content":"<b>11. How Today’s Antiwar Protests Stack Up Against Major Student Movements in History</b>"},{"_id":"HX6AGGRJMNEABLIYOZ6MSOQXJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831053},"type":"text","content":"<i>By Nicole Narea, Vox</i>"},{"_id":"OATJN52JBRCRBNSLLJFTUOWJPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831054},"type":"text","content":"I’m drawn to stories that examine how historical movements have influenced current events and can challenge readers to learn from the past and apply it to what is happening now. In this story, Vox reporter Nicole Narea excels at this by shining a light on the parallels between today’s youth-led pro-Palestine protests on college campuses and student activism of the past, including the 1960s protests against the Vietnam War and the 1980s campus movements against apartheid in South Africa."},{"_id":"BM4L3VZM3RFF5FAPFU5GHSLXXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831055},"type":"text","content":"The story is not just a mere timeline of student protest coverage. It describes why college campuses remain distinctive environments for fostering critical thinking, personal development and cultural awareness. Narea’s story blends history, politics, activism and the power of student voices to illustrate how college students have long been at the forefront of social change."},{"_id":"6JUODKRFAVA6LOHOXUM4T72UQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831056},"type":"text","content":"The story also notes how swiftly today’s student movements can be met with police crackdowns, arrests and political pressure, even when they are predominantly peaceful in nature. It’s a thought-provoking piece that speaks to what today’s students encounter as they fight for their rights and those of others — often facing backlash and personal danger. <a href=\"https://www.vox.com/politics/24141636/campus-protest-columbia-israel-kent-state-history\">Read the full story here</a>. <i>- Selected by Trinity Alicia, The 74</i>"},{"_id":"IU4EDGVKBBBZHOCUVHOQNOA3LM","additional_properties":{"_id":"YEIAMLL275H4HDPGKBTGJFEY6M"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Two strangers sent him to college. 30 years later, their gift marches on","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/leader-of-a-tiny-georgia-high-school-band-continues-a-mission-to-pay-it-forward/Z3KNRKZHW5EY3FBYX3FMZM6Z3E/"},{"_id":"FUSAQ7ZFGVAWBKON27V5ZQCGZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831058},"type":"text","content":"<b>12. 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There are also concerns related to a variety of areas, like speech and language development, emotional regulation, social interactions, behavior, attention span, core strength and fine motor skills. Researchers suggested that a number of factors affected young children during the pandemic, including parental stress, less exposure to people, more time on screens and lower preschool attendance."},{"_id":"35NU7UNW2REY7MJUAMRMHX3D2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831062},"type":"text","content":"Despite these trends, some experts said recovery is possible, pointing to resources that can help as well as evidence that the early years of brain development in young children positions them well to “catch up.” <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/07/01/upshot/pandemic-children-school-performance.html\">Read the full story here</a>.<i> - Selected by Marisa Busch, The 74</i>"},{"_id":"PTSLS2WDQFAK7CEDRKWDCOTJUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831063},"type":"text","content":"<b>13. ‘I Want to Scream, but I Can’t.’ The Hidden World of Special Education Settlements in Massachusetts</b>"},{"_id":"W2CBEACVLZGJTJ6AAD2AXS7V2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831064},"type":"text","content":"<i>By Mandy McLaren, The Boston Globe</i>"},{"_id":"6EZZ2KRFRFEWNJLJHB7RX3BB7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831065},"type":"text","content":"The Boston Globe’s Mandy McLaren and Neena Hagen collected and reviewed more than 2,600 confidential agreements between Massachusetts school districts and families of students with special needs showing that families who can afford a lawyer are often able to negotiate six-figure placements at specialized schools, while those who can’t afford one watch their kids languish in neighborhood schools."},{"_id":"OJSI5FZY4FGC5J2DBN2LCZ3TH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831066},"type":"text","content":"It’s an amazing investigative effort that lays bare what one mother calls the “tedious and maddening back-and-forth” with a district. She negotiates a secret agreement for annual $40,000 tuition payments at a private school, but no one can know — especially not other parents “still fumbling in the dark” for ways to help their kids. The nondisclosure agreements weaken other families’ ability to find “free and appropriate” settings for their kids, as federal law demands. One expert tells the Globe that such secrecy runs counter to the spirit of the law, which envisioned families being resources for each other. “The way this is set up, it’s made to break you,” says a father who doesn’t have the money to fight his kid’s district. <a href=\"https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/12/metro/boston-massachusetts-autism-dyslexia-students-private-school-special-education/\">Read the full story here</a>. <i>- Selected by Greg Toppo, The 74</i>"},{"_id":"DPKX4T4YZJBLBIADRAV2CKCSZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831067},"type":"text","content":"<b>14. 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This close-up approach humanizes a sense of loss that often gets clouded by the abstractions. “There is a pathos to a closed school that doesn’t apply to a shuttered courthouse or post office,” he writes."},{"_id":"WCBXIXAHDBFZTLFXJCKMXNO2EU","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831070},"type":"text","content":"While not pulling punches on the disastrous effects of COVID school lockdowns, which sent many parents to charters or schools in the suburbs, MacGillis keeps his eye on the Black families who research shows are disproportionately affected by such closures. “Every time we think we’re doing something right for our kids,” one parent says, “someone comes in and dictates to us that our choices are not valid.” <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/school-closures-students-charter-schools-home-schooling-rochester\">Read the full story here</a>. <i>- Selected by Andrew Brownstein, The 74</i>"},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"1acfa297691f4f3b1a5373c5bc008e2e930e575ebc8fcad22fd8c0e6cd3d5140"},"caption":"Forest Brook Middle School math teacher Steven Bobino delivers instruction Sept. 18 at the campus in northeast Houston. 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But he also found teachers taking the time to build relationships with students and to bring their own personalities into their lessons."},{"_id":"6NV7EWGM2NCPZFTELX4AHILNNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1733938831076},"type":"text","content":"“Last year, when we started this process, scholars went home tired,” Principal Alicia Lewis told him. “The parents call me. ‘Ms. Lewis,’ they say, ‘it’s too much work.’ It’s not. It’s not too much work. They need it. And look at what happened. They grew.” The story by Lehrer-Small, a veteran of The 74, demonstrates the power of getting out from behind the computer and experiencing what is actually happening in the classroom. <a href=\"https://houstonlanding.org/two-days-inside-an-hisd-school-that-improved-from-f-to-b-grade-under-mike-miles-changes/\">Read the full story here</a>. <i>- Selected by Bev Weintraub, The 74. 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Exit polls this cycle suggest that gap may have narrowed to as little as 10 percent."},{"_id":"DDEWRBKX6RBUTHPCIV5WTVNIDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738081},"type":"text","content":"In Maricopa County precincts where more than 50 percent of registered voters are Hispanic, an analysis by <a href=\"https://x.com/carlosodio/status/1856370229548286293\">Equis Research</a> found that support for Trump grew by 12 points since 2016, less than the 20-plus point shifts seen in heavily-Latinx precincts in Florida but still decisive in this key battleground."},{"_id":"IZW5IRB5GVFOBHUA5VIO2MSKBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738082},"type":"text","content":"Teasing out exactly which groups of Latinx voters backed Trump will take some time, but post-election polling widely suggests that Trump’s gains were <a href=\"https://cawp.rutgers.edu/blog/gender-differences-2024-presidential-vote\">more sizable</a> among Latinos than Latinas, even as the latter group did inch to the right."},{"_id":"M6U3REM5OJE75N4LVYCF6NQISM","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738083},"type":"text","content":"Latinx voters consistently cited the state of the economy as their number one issue, ranking the cost of living and the cost of housing as top concerns, even as they also recorded high rates of support for restoring reproductive rights after Trump’s Supreme Court appointments ended federal abortion rights. One Republican strategist who worked to oppose the constitutional amendment to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution said the success of the measure — fueled by support among many conservatives and many Latinx voters — illustrates how much the economy was top of mind even for voters who supported liberal policies backed by Harris."},{"_id":"RI3TSOL4QJFFDISHDRUSHDXCBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738084},"type":"text","content":"In this county, 1.2 million voters backed the amendment, compared with the 1.05 million that backed Trump."},{"_id":"FOZECGLCWBEEPJD3AOG5SFTZPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738086},"type":"text","content":"“For working-class Latinos who are not paying too much attention, it’s the difference in how much they remember paying at the grocery store when Trump was in office compared to now. It’s how much they remember paying at the pump,” said Mayra Rodriguez, the state director for Moms for Arizona, a conservative political group."},{"_id":"2KM5HW6MJBEFDD5CUNMLY7IDMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738087},"type":"text","content":"Rodriguez said that the economy helped chip away at Democrats’ support among Latinas, who in many Latinx families take on the role of grocery shopping and have seen firsthand the toll of inflation on their families’ budgets. But, Rodriguez said, the voters who swung to Trump aren’t necessarily permanently in the GOP camp now."},{"_id":"ORVJXSTTONFZXFQBSH3CHVJJRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738088},"type":"text","content":"“These voters will go back to the Democratic Party if Republicans don’t deliver on Trump’s promises, which were many,” Rodriguez said."},{"_id":"BZB23WMHSRHINE3CEKV5U3MADA","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738089},"type":"text","content":"The day-to-day reality of inflation made it challenging for the Harris campaign to communicate with voters about the successes of the Biden administration on job creation and health care costs, said Raquel Tehran, a longtime Arizona organizer and former chair of the Arizona Democratic Party."},{"_id":"HZ2T76E7IVD7PAHB3MMQMKVPJI","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738090},"type":"text","content":"“You have a campaign that wants to talk about how good the economy is when people — what they see — is that it costs so much to have their basic goods,” said Tehran, who ran unsuccessfully in the Democratic primary to represent Arizona’s 3rd District, anchored in Phoenix. “We should have — I wish that there was a stronger recognition of that pain.”"},{"_id":"KU55EF3JCBCXBMSJA4K7X2ZGUA","additional_properties":{"_id":"MR4UTL4F2NGIVLJ3R6V6L4KCNI"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Opinion: The real cost of repealing the Inflation Reduction Act","url":"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/opinion-the-real-cost-of-repealing-the-inflation-reduction-act/TH4JNX5TGNHQDO5N7GOSQMFULE/"},{"_id":"WL7JWEHVDRBV7E6OQZILPZX55U","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738091},"type":"text","content":"Inflation and the high cost of housing impacted voters across the board, but Latinx voters were more likely to feel the strain, according to <a href=\"https://latino.ucla.edu/press/2024-election-arizona-voters/\">an analysis</a> from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. The median household income of Latinx voters in Arizona is $12,000 less than that of white residents. They’re also less likely to own a home, and the proportion of Latinx voters living in overcrowded homes is almost twice that of the overall rate in the state."},{"_id":"5TXW72SS2VFEZNOFPGBGBH3ZZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738092},"type":"text","content":"She argued that one lesson for Maricopa’s election results is that Democratic candidates who related to voters’ personal struggles found success. She pointed to Anna Hernandez, who left her state Senate seat to run a progressive campaign for Phoenix city council, and Ruben Gallego, a Democrat who got nearly as many votes as Trump did in the state and will become Arizona’s first Latino U.S. senator."},{"_id":"EHET6XV4VBG7ZNSSN7C5VBAFKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738093},"type":"text","content":"“I know how hard you’re working, where your wages just haven’t kept up with costs,” Gallego said in an April ad, looking directly at the camera. “And that’s not your fault.” Hernandez leaned on her working-class background to focus on <a href=\"https://www.annahernandezaz.com/\">housing affordability and homelessness</a>, and her <a href=\"https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix-city-council-candidate-hernandez-progressive-reform-20382999\">personal story</a> relating to police violence."},{"_id":"I5SMJTUXEZD2NIWORTCOUC5FAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738094},"type":"text","content":"Incidentally, Gallego backed one of Hernandez’s opponents. Hernandez still won 53 percent of the vote in a four-way race for her district, which covers west and central Phoenix. It was a decisive win for a progressive candidate, who leaned into economic issues but also promised to push back on GOP immigration policies, fight for clear air and who, in the state Senate, pushed back against the banning of books that mentioned gender fluidity or trans identity."},{"_id":"B52264RMRBHULK6QK3TNVQKYTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738095},"type":"text","content":"“Housing, homelessness, public safety, affordability — these were the things that were top of mind for them,” Hernandez said in <a href=\"https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/what-phoenix-city-council-hernandezs-win-teach-democrats-20573760\">an interview</a> with a local news outlet. “I feel like on a national level, we got away from those kitchen table issues. For me, it was so important to talk about those.”"},{"_id":"SYUREC7TRZHORJCMPR4WPWLL7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738096},"type":"text","content":"Even as much of the focus on Maricopa became about the presidential race, voters in this county were also weighing in on the race for county schools superintendent, where the Republican candidate leaned heavily on the “parental rights” messaging that has dominated Republican politics in recent years. Republican Shelli Boggs told voters that if elected, she would “never tolerate any attempt to bring the radical policies of Critical Race Theory, Diversity/Equity/Inclusion, Gender Studies, or any other ‘woke academic policy’ into our classrooms.” Boggs also said she would oppose the inclusion of transgender girls on girls sports teams."},{"_id":"BUVVT7NYBZBTVNNSHBGDB2EVPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738097},"type":"text","content":"Boggs’ campaign helped amplify messages from Trump’s campaign that Democrats’ policies supporting inclusivity in schools were a threat to their children, and an affront to parents’ power."},{"_id":"ZCU6Y7MO7NFOPAXGV52JL2SERE","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738098},"type":"text","content":"Rodriguez said her group worked to get this messaging in front of moms, including Latinas. She said the state of the economy drove Trump’s victory, but said she believes that messaging targeting parents on these issues helped bolster Trump. Boggs won with close to 52 percent of the vote."},{"_id":"7YX52ZCBGVHFHJJTDKD2EPTOMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738099},"type":"text","content":"Tehran said the election made clear that Republicans’ well-funded, years-long campaign targeting transgender youth had reached many voters. Democrats, Tehran said, have not been successful at pushing back."},{"_id":"BNVKSROYFJAVJNF5XUGHIMPRQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738100},"type":"text","content":"“They’ve been trying to scapegoat transgender children and people who are LGBTQ for many, many years,” said Tehran, who says she saw an increase after the 2022 midterms. “They hammered that messaging with a lot of misinformation and that is hard to fight. So unfortunately, I think that it did penetrate.”"},{"_id":"UE6SERAKQRHVBCHCC3XD4LVBGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738101},"type":"text","content":"Both Rodriguez and Tehran said that voters in Maricopa sent a complicated message to both parties. While Trump won here, about the same number of voters backed Gallego and an even larger group voted for abortion rights. A majority also supported a GOP-backed ballot measure that gives the state the power to jail and deport immigrants, and gave control of the county’s schools to a conservative superintendent focused on culture wars issues."},{"_id":"KWNPKAJSGNBRJPYEU5AKO5XMPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738102},"type":"text","content":"Trump won Georgia after losing it by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020, but a distinct pocket of northeastern suburbs and exurbs of Atlanta got decisively bluer."},{"_id":"34IK4XFMHVE7PBKFSFABD3F2RE","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738103},"type":"text","content":"Barrow County in northeast Georgia shifted almost three points toward Democrats compared with 2020; though Trump won 70 percent of the vote there, Harris still picked up more votes than Biden did. Next-door Jackson County also shifted three points to the left."},{"_id":"Q52VSC3YHFBORJTHQO4Q6CWXBI","additional_properties":{"_id":"T3G5S4RI2BA5JM4AEWHAZIQYMM"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Certified: Georgia election chief and governor finalize Trump’s win and statewide results","url":"https://www.ajc.com/politics/trumps-2024-win-in-georgia-certified-by-secretary-of-state-brad-raffensperger/Q2DURKBX2FHKFGI3QUE34KVG5Y/"},{"_id":"V4LAYRVWYZCS5LJ7KHUJXSEOPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738104},"type":"text","content":"They’re both among the fastest-growing counties in the country — and have <a href=\"https://www.ajc.com/news/white-populations-decline-in-diversifying-atlanta-suburbs/FLQ55YEVD5CMLBEO23OPRT3CE4/\">gotten more diverse</a> since 2020. Democrats there chalk up the political shift to who has moved into these counties. They also say that for many women in these Atlanta exurbs, the issue of gun violence is pushing them toward Democrats."},{"_id":"Y3L4SSL5HZATDITFVB56G636SA","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738105},"type":"text","content":"Shelbey Diamond-Alexander is the chair of the Barrow County Democrats. She moved to Barrow County 21 years ago from the Atlanta suburbs, looking for more space and a more rural lifestyle. A Black woman, she remembers when she first arrived in Barrow County two decades ago, she thought, ‘Where are the Black people? Where are the Asians? Where are the Latinos?’"},{"_id":"7KGTH3PJU5BGROPGB4JEAG232Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738106},"type":"text","content":"Today, she said, the county looks much different — something she says has helped fuel the growth of the Democratic Party there. In 2000, Barrow County was 84 percent white; in 2020, it was 66 percent white, with nearly a third of all county residents being Black, Asian and Latinx. As more people move to the country for the same reasons she did — more space, affordable housing, a desire to be a part of a small town community — from larger areas, “it’s bringing people in who are more independent-thinking, they’re not as staunch in their Republican beliefs. The world, so to speak, is catching up with Barrow County.”"},{"_id":"FAYXNAEBA5CRHCBHXHBDJLEDKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738107},"type":"text","content":"Jackson County, between the metro Atlanta area and the University of Georgia, is one of the <a href=\"https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/census-data-jackson-county-fastest-growing/85-b5064abc-d8b6-4c22-a78f-c504822927d3\">fastest-growing counties in the nation</a>, with its population growing 25 percent in 15 years. It, like Barrow, has gotten a lot more diverse, according to Pete Fuller, chair of the Jackson County Democrats."},{"_id":"U2XFKYH3DFDMPHY2YQCRP7IQS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738108},"type":"text","content":"Fuller said being a Democrat is increasingly less rare in Jackson County, a place where many people were raised “to vote how their grandaddy told them to vote.” Right now, about 22 percent of voters in the county are registered Democrats. “That means one in four, one in five people in any room are voting Democrat, that have those values — that’s what we’re pushing.” He says a major goal for his party is normalizing being a Democrat in rural Georgia. This cycle, the county party invested in billboards and Facebook ads for the first time ever."},{"_id":"6TRQRXAWJVCSLNWKVXPIJURB6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738109},"type":"text","content":"Staci Fox is CEO of the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute, a research organization that produces analyses of the state budget and research on how to best expand economic opportunity in Georgia. She said looking at the map this cycle is reflective of the fact that in many parts of the state, “the real center of change is about the population change, not necessarily about a mind-shift change.”"},{"_id":"Z6T5DF2E2ZFSHOUETALJINO4GM","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738110},"type":"text","content":"Diamond-Alexander said that the counties’ growth and diversification meant voters were more open to messaging pointing to Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants and people of color."},{"_id":"FLXC7M26CVAN3CS2H5C2DM3TAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738111},"type":"text","content":"“When Donald Trump started his banter, it was always against other folks who were not Caucasian, not white, that did not believe in Republicans. The issue is — we don’t want to live like that anymore,” Diamond-Alexander said. “Why are still fighting over Black people having the right to vote? Of Latinos having the right to vote? I mean, that makes no sense.”"},{"_id":"XTYWS2C7FJAGJH5Y26CVBLVBRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738112},"type":"text","content":"Barrow County is also the home of Winder, Georgia, where in early September a 14-year old student fatally shot two students and two faculty members at Apalachee High School, injuring an additional seven people."},{"_id":"GIKSTRYJMNEYLJPGQFCCJCKG5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738113},"type":"text","content":"Fuller said that the school shooting in Winder had a huge impact in his community, something he felt during this election cycle. The city of Jefferson, where Fuller lives, borders Winder, and most of his neighbors know people whose kids attend or have attended it. “It’s terrifying for everyone here that that could have been the case here,” he said."},{"_id":"26O4PZENAFBE3FIRBHQJPKMTAA","additional_properties":{"_id":"7P6AUJXIWFB6XFTGQ3QW5O7IEU"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Georgia students could face tougher penalties for making school threats","url":"https://www.ajc.com/education/georgia-house-speaker-says-lawmakers-will-seek-to-increase-penalties-for-school-threats/VU27KOETRJAFVGTZKVBAQC6ECA/"},{"_id":"GUELTUWY4BF6RNGKCD7BAEEXDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738114},"type":"text","content":"He sees the way that talking about gun violence, especially in the context of <a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2024/05/women-governors-hochul-grisham-whitmer-gun-safety-priority/\">red flag laws</a> and <a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2024/02/michigan-school-shooting-verdict-gun-storage-laws-education/\">safe storage</a>, has made an impact on his part of the state. Fuller mentioned an <a href=\"https://flagpole.com/news/election-2024/2024/09/22/jon-ossoff-mark-kelly-and-gabby-giffords-visit-comer-for-get-out-the-vote-rally/\">event</a> for the Harris campaign that Sen. Jon Ossoff did with Sen. Mark Kelly and former Rep. Gabby Giffords in neighboring Madison County, where gun safety was central to the conversation. Over 1,500 people attended. “And usually, if you get 20 folks at an event, it’s considered a success,” Fuller said. People were excited, he said, to see “prominent Democrats” show up in their community — and talk about gun safety."},{"_id":"PEREPSRWTRARDNFNZ4W4DJUD7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738115},"type":"text","content":"As a gun owner himself — most Democrats he knows are gun owners, too — he said that there is ground to be won in explaining that Democrats don’t want to take away guns, but keep people safe. “If you go out on an Army base, you’re going to see guns safely stored. You’re not going to see them just laying out on a coffee table, which it sounds like is what happened with that Apalachee kid and that’s just not OK,” he said."},{"_id":"FCH4WTZ6XVA6BBP25ZIMI7WLWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738116},"type":"text","content":"Diamond-Alexander is also a gun owner and has been struck by the mothers — many of whom are gun owners too — who have suddenly joined groups like Moms Demand Action in the wake of the shooting and the way they are trying to communicate that Democrats don’t want to take guns away, but find ways to keep children safe. While she said guns are not “a big subject” in the community at large, “it is when you talk to the parents and the children that were affected.” And increasingly, she hears mothers in the community frustrated that politicians are unwilling to discuss gun safety laws in the name of keeping kids safer."},{"_id":"SZM4BMDYEVCBDIXXK3MRIHDI7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738117},"type":"text","content":"Fuller thinks more attention should be paid to Democrats who live in places like where he lives. “We like living here. We like the feel of it. We don’t want to live in a city somewhere, to have to relocate to San Francisco or midtown Atlanta — and things are going to change. Things are changing.”"},{"_id":"GQFF3ZEGCBG53B53O4VIPXXWSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738118},"type":"text","content":"As Democrats’ losses in 2024 prompt a reassessment of the party’s outreach, what happened in suburban and exurban Atlanta offers a hint at what could be coming next. It’s not just that these areas are getting more diverse but that white women are shifting toward Democrats in these places, too."},{"_id":"WKB5VTNM6RENVLNBZES75WIERY","additional_properties":{"_id":"LU72FRWCS5H4XPITKW7S5CJRDE"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Opinion: Did white women choose race over gender?","url":"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/opinion-did-white-women-choose-race-over-gender/5O3KYX4QEBAPLH4OXT5GAIJMOE/"},{"_id":"R6UFA6X7XBH7NNC56WV3X33BXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738119},"type":"text","content":"Democrats’ reassessment also includes a close look at Latinx voters, whose rightward shift doesn’t account for Trump victory, but who offer clues about how this fast-growing group of voters is thinking about American politics. Clarissa Martinez De Castro, who helps lead voter outreach efforts at UnidosUS, a Latinx advocacy group that backed Harris, said an “all or nothing” explanation of this past election won’t work, but, if there’s a lesson for both parties moving forward, it’s that how voters are experiencing the economy is decisive."},{"_id":"RCI2NAP64RC73NHUEPXPQEMF4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738120},"type":"text","content":"“Hispanic voters have definitely been screaming this for well over a year. The most potent driver in the election was economic discontent. People may not agree with how many voters arrive at their conclusions, but on economic matters, for voters, it tends to be a pretty straight line. How am I doing and who is in charge?” Martinez de Castro said in a briefing about Latinx voters and the election."},{"_id":"ZRUV4Z6VIVGFDJUHCE45GQKHWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738121},"type":"text","content":"“If there is a mandate here, it’s to raise wages, to bring down food, housing and healthcare costs.”"},{"_id":"WXHDDD5NEBBZNPWU5ABFFOLTCQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Jackie Payne, the founder and executive director of Galvanize Action, a grassroots group that focuses on persuading more white women voters to vote for reproductive rights and preserving democracy, said that one of the main takeaways from election night is that while Trump won by making inroads with nearly every demographic group, that was not true among white women, including both college-educated <i>and </i>non-college educated white women."},{"_id":"YULXW4KBZ5CFZLJKJ65PJENKHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738123},"type":"text","content":"“While most other groups moved to the right, white women moved three points left from 2020 and non-college educated white women — although they voted for Trump in large margins — they moved eight points to the left from 2020,” Payne said of her analysis of the initial AP VoteCast data. “When people say, ‘Oh the majority of white women voted for Trump’ — that’s true. Or when they say, ‘The majority of non-college-educated white women voted for Trump’ — that’s also true. What our focus was on this cycle was understanding what was important to moderate white women and then looking at what the data shows us, how are they reacting to the current moment. What we saw was that relative to 2020, white women are moving to the left.”"},{"_id":"R2NQUI67WRGO7LSEVUJ5B54S7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1733160738124},"type":"text","content":"About 34 percent of moderate white women said the economy was their number one issue in this election and that they trusted Trump and Republicans by a 12-point margin on jobs and the economy, Payne said of her data. It’s a similar story for Latinas. One survey found that <a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2024/10/harris-trump-women-voters-inflation-october-poll/\">41 percent of Latinas</a> in late September pointed to inflation as their top issue, with many more ranking it near the top. Back in June, just 35 percent of Latina voters trusted Democrats would do a better job on the issue. 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Brian Kemp’s office also declined to comment, referring questions to the health department."},{"_id":"AZZ62WTXDRAP3OHFC3KGWX327E","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Under Georgia law, the work of the maternal mortality review committee is confidential, and members must sign confidentiality agreements. Those members see only summaries of medical records stripped of personal details, and their findings on individual cases are not supposed to be shared with the public — not even with hospitals or with family members of women who died."},{"_id":"GRMSDN6CMBGNBFF7QMNE6M5KO4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The health department’s letter states that there could be new steps to keep the board’s deliberations from public view. The letter said officials might change “other procedures for on-boarding committee members better ensuring confidentiality, committee oversight and MMRC organizational structure.”"},{"_id":"HX5R2YESXJDGXBO2FDLXSMGRDI","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Maternal mortality review committees exist in every state. They are tasked with examining deaths of women during a pregnancy or up to a year after and determining whether they could have been prevented."},{"_id":"K7M5NVOP6FGW5P47MUJL527VIQ","type":"raw_html","content":"<iframe\r\n src=\"https://embed.documentcloud.org/documents/25378129-mmrc-member-letter-11-8-2024-3/?embed=1&responsive=1&title=1\"\r\n title=\"MMRC Member Letter 11-8-2024 3 (Hosted by DocumentCloud)\"\r\n width=\"700\"\r\n height=\"905\"\r\n style=\"border: 1px solid #aaa; width: 100%; height: 800px; height: calc(100vh - 100px);\"\r\n sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-forms allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"\r\n></iframe>\r\n"},{"_id":"LKXELOFDWVG6FFGRBUEWKFB4QY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Georgia’s had 32 standing members from a variety of backgrounds, including OB-GYNs, cardiologists, mental health care providers, a medical examiner, health policy experts and community advocates. They are volunteer positions that pay a small honorarium."},{"_id":"PEPYRGUQOBDR3FWE7VVWPBJQGQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Their job is to collect data and make recommendations aimed at combatting systemic issues that could help reduce deaths and publish them in reports. The Georgia committee’s most recent report found that of 113 pregnancy-related deaths from 2018 through 2020, 101 had at least some chance of being prevented. Its recommendations have led to changes in hospital care to improve the response to emergencies during labor and delivery and to new programs to increase access to psychiatric treatment."},{"_id":"LAKUPQHHDJGI3F42UL7TSIZL2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"FNX3AB5EUNF6PHFRF7FHECQ7UI"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"CDC hopes $3.1 million will help reduce Georgia’s high maternal mortality rate","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/health-news/cdc-hopes-31-million-will-help-reduce-georgias-high-maternal-mortality-rate/GPUEKHFCFVGH3NS2SAEDLKT6E4/"},{"_id":"6PXY2AFPHJH4PF4GJIVDUVHYQE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The health department’s letter states that the “change to the current committee will not result in a delay in the MMRC’s responsibilities.” But at least one other state has experienced a lag as a result of reshaping its committee. Idaho let its maternal mortality review committee legislation expire in July 2023, effectively disbanding the committee after lobbyist groups attacked members for recommending that the state expand Medicaid for postpartum women. Earlier this year, Idaho’s Legislature reestablished the committee, but new members weren’t announced until Nov. 15. There is now more than a yearlong delay in the review process."},{"_id":"6DLD6V33BBAHPJM32IDHXFTTKE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Reproductive rights advocates say Georgia’s decision to dismiss and restructure its committee also could have a chilling effect on the committee’s work, potentially dissuading its members from delving as deeply as they have into the circumstances of pregnant women’s deaths if it could be politically sensitive."},{"_id":"PPYYC3KODBFYXOKXDSO7BEB5DA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“They did what they were supposed to do. This is why we need them,” said Monica Simpson, executive director of SisterSong, one of the groups challenging Georgia’s abortion ban in court. “To have this abrupt disbandment, my concern is what we are going to lose in the process, in terms of time and data?”"},{"_id":"HJ3SKMJ6FBBURLZO5JW5R6A5QY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"One objective of any maternal mortality review committee is to look at the circumstances of a death holistically to identify root causes that may be able to help other women in the future."},{"_id":"VVPIT4PLHVHBTAKUKZ5MMXC224","additional_properties":{"_id":"AS2R2RGM65AT5H5OA5E2CCRQWE"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"The continued rise of maternal mortality in Georgia leaves families broken in its wake","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/health-news/maternal-deaths-the-continued-rise-in-georgia-leaves-families-broken-in-its-wake/M2A65QC5FJDYZGBRU3SS2QO7B4/"},{"_id":"WOHVB4SDKRALNDCZTPE4JOQ5CA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"In the case of <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/candi-miller-abortion-ban-death-georgia\">Candi Miller</a>, the most prominent detail in a state medical examiner’s report of her death was that she had a lethal combination of painkillers in her system, including fentanyl. It attributed the cause of death to drug intoxication."},{"_id":"UFDBRT2YABE3BPDI4PFN5ANMHY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"But the Georgia committee looked at the facts of the death with a different objective: to consider the broader context. A summary of Miller’s case prepared for the committee, drawn from hospital records and the medical examiner’s report, included that Miller had multiple health conditions that can be exacerbated by pregnancy, that she had ordered abortion pills from overseas and that she had unexpelled fetal tissue, which showed the abortion had not fully completed. It also stated that her family had told the coroner she didn’t visit a doctor “due to the current legislation on pregnancies and abortions.”"},{"_id":"RLYUICKDGBCDVJINKH4ZSD3I2Q","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The committee found her death was “preventable” and blamed the state’s abortion ban."},{"_id":"2QH7QRCQ3JAWXJYCDY5KWM7RXE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“The fact that she felt that she had to make these decisions, that she didn’t have adequate choices here in Georgia, we felt that definitely influenced her case,” one committee member told ProPublica in September. “She’s absolutely responding to this legislation.”"},{"_id":"ILZ4BHTEJRD63G73F4ARN5JQEY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"For Miller’s family, the committee’s findings were painful but wanted. “It seems like that is essential information that you would share with the family,” said Miller’s sister, Turiya Tomlin-Randall, who was not aware of the committee’s work until ProPublica contacted her."},{"_id":"5ENAD4F3MBC2JC3JXKL2HT4NHQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"She also said it’s upsetting to hear that the committee’s members were dismissed partly as a result of her sister’s case being disclosed to the public. “I don’t understand how this is even possible,” she said."},{"_id":"UGVT2CYZQ5GADEK7QZS2IS6MLE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"The committee also investigated the case of <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-abortion-ban-amber-thurman-death\">Amber Thurman</a>, who died just one month after Georgia’s six-week abortion law went into effect. The medical examiner’s report stated that Thurman died of “sepsis” and “retained products of conception” and that she had received a dilation and curettage, or D&C, and a hysterectomy after an at-home abortion."},{"_id":"SZD46FBY7VA4RF4O5MDOFNIXZM","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"When the committee members received a summary of her hospital stay, they saw a timeline with additional factors: The hospital had delayed providing a D&C — a routine procedure to clear fetal tissue from the uterus — for 20 hours, which Thurman needed for rare complications she’d developed after taking abortion medication. The state had recently attached criminal penalties to performing a D&C, with few exceptions. The summary showed doctors discussed providing the D&C twice, but by the time they performed the procedure it was too late. Committee members found that there was a “good chance” Thurman’s death could have been prevented if she had received the D&C sooner."},{"_id":"IIVLABGCWFAPXD4QN2LBS4AQRY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Doctors and a nurse involved in Thurman’s care did not answer questions from ProPublica for its September story. The hospital also did not respond to multiple requests for comment."},{"_id":"SC7MSMGO45GCBDW2ZFS4UHOSQ4","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Thurman’s family also told ProPublica they had wanted the information about her death disclosed."},{"_id":"OVUVQOEQYZH4JL5BZHGZMEAC64","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Some experts say that keeping the reports of maternal mortality review committees confidential is important for a committee to serve its purpose. They are set up not to assign blame but instead to create a space for clinicians to investigate broad causes of maternal health failures. But others say the lack of transparency can serve to obscure the biggest disruption to maternal health care in half a century."},{"_id":"MBTNXDB7XNDNDEPQLUWV4ODWJA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“We know that the reports that have come out of that committee are anonymized and synthesized in order to provide a 50,000-foot view,” said Kwajelyn Jackson, executive director of Feminist Women’s Health Center in Atlanta, which provides abortion care. “But my worry is that in an effort to protect the state, there will be less information that will be available to people who could shift their actions, shift their protocols, shift their strategies, shift their behaviors in order to make a difference in maternal health outcomes.”"},{"_id":"CAVFS6UNH5FONO5YZXXPRLACBA","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Two states did make shifts to their committees — Idaho, after members made a recommendation to expand Medicaid that Republicans opposed, and Texas, after a member publicly criticized the state."},{"_id":"L2KZJJZHURAR7KRJUVC6M4SGAY","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"In 2022, Texas committee member Nakeenya Wilson, a community advocate, spoke out against the state’s decision to delay the release of its report during an election year. The following year, the Legislature passed a law that created a second community advocate position on the committee, redefined the position and had Wilson reapply. She was not reappointed. The state instead filled one of the slots with a prominent anti-abortion activist."},{"_id":"DIPAWDVZXNBGLJQCJZOGH4NH2Q","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"Wilson said Georgia’s decision to dismiss its committee could cause greater harm."},{"_id":"ABYJ3DESVJERTCND33VBO2NFDE","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"“What message is being said to the families who lost their loved ones?” she said. “There’s going to be even less accountability for this to not happen again.”"},{"_id":"I6SZJVC5U5FLPMY2WCUN3LDB5M","additional_properties":{},"type":"text","content":"<i>Ziva Branstetter, Kavitha Surana, Cassandra Jaramillo and Anna Barry-Jester contributed reporting. 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There’s the resurgence of coupon clippers. There’s the canners and the new gardeners. And there’s those who had to take out loans or visit food banks for the first time."},{"_id":"D6LR3RE7QRFCLFEZGJFJD4N2UA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730217878384},"type":"text","content":"All of those Americans, who have spent an entire four-year political cycle in financial instability, now return to the polls."},{"_id":"H2AN3O6YWRGOPL4FUKMNGIQV5Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1730217878385},"type":"text","content":"In the University of Michigan’s Study of Consumers, the longest-running report on consumer attitudes, women have<a href=\"https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/subset/subset.php\"> consistently </a>felt worse than men about the economy, and that continues to hold true even as inflation has leveled. According to<a href=\"https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/2024elections/?utm_source=19th_2024\"> a 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll</a>, inflation and the cost of living ranks highest for voters when asked what issue matters most to them right now. Women (37 percent) polled slightly higher than men (36 percent) and nonbinary people (31 percent)."},{"_id":"V7KBZ2L4UFBJ7C3EX6YQ3JXXQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730217878386},"type":"text","content":"The 19th spoke to women whose lives were changed when jobs were lost and prices rose about the choices they made over the past several years, and how those choices may now shape their vote."},{"_id":"GKV23NLQ3RCYLFODZAJ5VE4GOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730217878387},"type":"text","content":"<b>Ashley Trent – California </b><i>In a food desert, providing for a family of seven by any means necessary</i>."},{"_id":"HV3D5ZLDABHHJECFMNW3VB2DOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730217878388},"type":"text","content":"Ashley Trent went to a food bank for the first time after her housing costs unexpectedly rose 77 percent and her food stamps were cut. Grocery prices were rising faster than she could bear. Trent and her family of seven, who live in a town tucked in California’s rural Antelope Valley, are about an hour’s drive from most grocery stores. With five boys to feed in this food desert, inflation has tested one of her basic roles as a parent: to provide."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"d831b877a1410afe01f95e83b233f3829533b7da46154f9b6ad627da34d61cfe"},"caption":"Ashley Trent’s youngest son is Caleb, 3, and the family has another child on the way. 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Rent soared from $1,130 to $1,995 a month as a result. After her husband got promotions at work, their food stamps were cut from $600 to nothing. Their spending at Walmart rose, ultimately doubling to $600 a month. They started draining their savings. Still, it wasn’t enough."},{"_id":"MWKSYTEZ3BBC7PKIJJ5QXUT2PI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730217878390},"type":"text","content":"If they wanted to go to cheaper grocery stores, they’d have to factor in the extra gas it would take to get there — a two-hour ride, round-trip. And in 2022, fuel was at its <a href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/204740/retail-price-of-gasoline-in-the-united-states-since-1990/#:~:text=Gas%20price%20fluctuations%20in%20recent%20years&text=While%20the%20U.S.'s%20dependence,price%20on%20record%20since%201990.\">highest</a> recorded price: an average of <a href=\"https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=CA?utm_source=syndication\">$6.438</a> a gallon in California."},{"_id":"72RAYAJLHFDJPKKQ52CTBPGBC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730217878391},"type":"text","content":"“You’re doing your budget for the month and you’re like, ‘How is it if I’m saving money, I don’t see it?’ I’m still spending that money on gas,” Trent said."},{"_id":"UES4FENIMVDRHHZWWHYVUM74Y4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730217878392},"type":"text","content":"There were two food banks run by local churches where they could get pasta, rice and, when they were lucky, some fresh produce. By the next year, the Trents started going to them regularly."},{"_id":"TEK2HAWQ7JHIPP7IJ4VUVCQVJI","additional_properties":{"_id":"WAEAVKA6HJF4PNUKRVCVLFK3LM"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Inflation is a shock we’re still getting over. Could it decide this election?","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/could-post-pandemic-inflation-decide-this-election-it-depends-on-how-you-look-at-it/BYQCYCKL7JANNOYKHTZ6NBOPOI/"},{"_id":"7JIEFOMYCFH6JA2HZXJI662TME","additional_properties":{"_id":1730217878393},"type":"text","content":"“It was one of those times where I was like, I can be sad about it, I can be upset about it, but I have to do it,” Trent said. “My husband — men and their pride — he’d be like, ‘I’m so sorry.’ I’m like, ‘Babe, we are getting free food.’ I’m not too prideful, my ego is not too big. Hey, we need the help.”"},{"_id":"MPHFOLBHPBA47DQXFWC6O2YBXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730217878394},"type":"text","content":"It was something of a full circle moment for Trent. Both she and her husband work in social services, and usually they are providing community assistance rather than accepting it. Trent works as a housing navigator helping people, usually low-income seniors, find a place to live, acquire furniture and put together enough money for a security deposit. Her husband works with formerly incarcerated people. It was the first time the economy had left them behind."},{"_id":"PBWYML34XJHODHPH2BUDOEOEZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730217878395},"type":"text","content":"Trent asked herself how it was that they made too much money for food stamps, but were relying on food banks. In April, Trent got a second part-time job educating children and adults with disabilities. They have more financial wiggle room now and have stopped going to food banks, but their grocery bills are still high and they have to be careful with their budget."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"7d00ddced7ce26d99c7d0e72f6ab0757ee7d5d4f34e1ba2fc306dad8e8538fdb"},"caption":"Ashley Trent grocery shops with her sons Marley (17) and Kellan (5) at Walmart Super Center in Tehachapi, CA on October 13, 2024. 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More importantly, she said, she’s going to be focusing on her local election, because she now understands the direct effect local elected officials can have on the policies that shape her life, from taxes to her children’s education."},{"_id":"2C5KKXUNS5DIZPZHDZZAGEWV64","additional_properties":{"_id":1730217878397},"type":"text","content":"“We’ve already been in such a crisis — like crisis after crisis after crisis. I’m a millennial, so I grew up with 9/11 and everything else. I’m done with the crisis,” Trent said. “Can we get a year where it’s OK again?”"},{"_id":"L5OZ3WLR2ZC43IHVEY7CO2DL5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1730221332082},"type":"text","content":"<b>Kiersti Torok – Nebraska </b><i>A return to couponing that skyrocketed her to TikTok fame.</i>"},{"_id":"5QFUO6GMQNAFTCEQVHXZCJZRZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730221332083},"type":"text","content":"When Kiersti Torok’s parents lost their jobs in the Great Recession, no one was hiring. They had two high school girls to support, so her mom attended a couponing course at a local community college that taught her how to find deals, stack different incentives and buy products when prices are lowest. Her mom was instantly hooked. Torok spent many weekends couponing with her mom, playing Backstreet Boys in the car with their $1 McDonald’s coffees on the way to Dollar Tree, where her mom would match sales she found in ad inserts with store rewards to get the best deals."},{"_id":"6AZCVFRSMVAWBPTJRAN3KESRYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730221332084},"type":"text","content":"But she didn’t take up couponing herself in a big way until the pandemic, when history repeated itself: This time, she and her husband lost their jobs. Torok was a child care provider in Nebraska and her husband was a financial analyst — they were laid off within two days of each other in early 2020. They also had two kids to support."},{"_id":"OB57KKDXKBG7FHBTMAJDQQE25I","additional_properties":{"_id":1730221332085},"type":"text","content":"That fall, Torok decided to turn her couponing tips into an Instagram account for friends and family. Walking into stores, she was conscious of the sales associates in the aisles with their binders, marking up prices. She’d run into friends in those aisles, too, many of whom had lost their jobs and were wondering how they’d afford diapers or formula. She knew what that felt like. Even though Torok’s husband found a new job later in 2020, they had little more than $200 a month for groceries."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"89c96aed4db71a10aeb29b1e08426d97692d8fa30127e1377e2c8d422b7cc540"},"caption":"Chris Torok films Kiersti Torok as she explains the toothbrush deal at CVS in Lincoln, Nebraska on October 14, 2024. 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Old-fashioned coupons, clipped from the newspaper, were being replaced by digital ones, as well as apps that stores and third-party companies could use to offer rebates, discounts or customer rewards."},{"_id":"7UKEQLJPYJDYZD6MSV3I3V252U","additional_properties":{"_id":1730221332087},"type":"text","content":"In the spring of 2021, she posted <a href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@torok.coupon.hunter/video/6935552699479969030?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">a video on TikTok</a> responding to another user who had asked for the No.1 tip to save money. “Follow me,” she responded. She had grown up in poverty. She understood what it was like. But she realized that couponing needed a make-over."},{"_id":"4SDXOHXZORCRHG4Q6DWI6QDEAQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730221332088},"type":"text","content":"“I’m gonna teach you how to coupon, and not the couponing that grandma did or the couponing you saw on TLC’s ‘Extreme Couponing,’” she said in her response on TikTok. “We are going to use digital coupons, we are going to use digital rebates, we are going to shop for clearance and we are going to shop for products at the right time when they’re the cheapest.”"},{"_id":"XUAKQA7OUZFEPHZDO4X5BQEFVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730221332089},"type":"text","content":"It got 3.9 million views."},{"_id":"EX7NYAOIRJC2VMKBVBLCQHF6TI","additional_properties":{"_id":"NOHE5ITBMBDT7GDXFFNEQ55634"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Inflation, groceries and the Georgia economy: What do you want to know?","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/inflation-groceries-and-the-georgia-economy-what-do-you-want-to-know/BG7GIZC6WNGUJMTB6JWPIDBUT4/"},{"_id":"TSSIPVQBKFDEVHHZZ34IIKQQGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730221332090},"type":"text","content":"Today, Torok is one of the most recognizable couponers on the Internet. Her TikTok, Torok Coupon Hunter, is full of bubbly videos taking viewers with her into the aisles of Target, CVS and Sam’s Club and has 3.6 million followers. Her Instagram recently hit 1 million. One of her videos, about how she ensures that none of the products go to waste, because she sorts them via expiration date and donates items she doesn’t use, has <a href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@torok.coupon.hunter/video/7203114442521988394?lang=en\">more than 15 million views</a>. Torok estimates couponing has saved her family tens of thousands of dollars."},{"_id":"DRQ33NUWKBCWLD2AXSG5T2LIDM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730221332091},"type":"text","content":"She believes her videos have found such a strong following because she understands what it’s like to be a person — especially a parent — trying to provide for their family. “As a woman, as someone who lived in poverty, your voice is so diminished,” Torok said. But couponing lets her use her platform to help others. 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The federal law, which was enacted during Ronald Reagan’s presidency and has long had bipartisan support, covers U.S. citizens living abroad, including voters serving in the U.S. military and their families."},{"_id":"CXFYSFFG5FHLJOSRC3IWRBYUSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1729868946918},"type":"text","content":"If successful, the lawsuits could impact results in a handful of battleground states with razor-thin voting margins that will determine the outcome of the presidential election. 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This practice is common for military families under the Military Spouses Residency Relief Act, since the frequent permanent changes of station (also commonly known as a “PCS”) would otherwise — and often still — require an insurmountable amount of professional strain for the spouse, legal and financial navigation, and general stress for any active duty family."},{"_id":"OE2ZEWEKZVCDDHXJAOHZPMJH4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1729868946922},"type":"text","content":"The lawsuits risk adding more confusion to the behind-the-scenes labor of military spouses who organize their families’ needs."},{"_id":"4KSGA4I72RBNXCLKSTXUQKHGEA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729868946923},"type":"text","content":"“We are responsible for an incredibly disproportionate amount of the heavy lifting and the work that comes with running a house,” said Marsh Lord, who currently resides in Virginia with her three children and her husband, who serves in the Air Force. “When you add to that a news alert that your vote might be caught up in a lawsuit about military and overseas voters, it’s a slap in the face … we are literally running ourselves ragged and trying to support our family and support our loved ones.”"},{"_id":"WLFDQAZARNGSNE42I3NAWWU5AQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1729868946924},"type":"text","content":"There were 168,571 active duty service members stationed abroad as of September 2023, according to the nonprofit and nonpartisan website <a href=\"https://usafacts.org/articles/where-are-us-military-members-stationed-and-why/\" target=\"_blank\">USAFacts.org</a>. 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With only weeks until Nov. 5, Dimson is still awaiting her ballot. “I worry that it might not make it back to the states to be counted in time, and I think it’s ridiculous that some states’ GOPs have been proposing that overseas ballots be set aside.”"},{"_id":"XIGJFG3E3RBVDDAHBQGYYUZ5T4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729868946928},"type":"text","content":"Veterans are more likely to vote Republican, but recent polling suggests there may be shifts in the younger demographic with prior service. The group <a href=\"https://www.democratsabroad.org/our_party\">Democrats Abroad</a> used the nonpartisan voter support tool Vote From Abroad to report that, among all users (not limited to military or veteran voters), 75 percent declared as Democrats and more than 58 percent were female. 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A ruling is still pending for the lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania."},{"_id":"EBSB6OFFZBEVBLHRNWU7TQZZP4","additional_properties":{"_id":"BLP23FBUUREBVJRYLAXXGVRYSM"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Postal Service urges Georgia mail-in voters to mail early","url":"https://www.ajc.com/politics/voting-by-mail-in-georgia-postal-service-recommends-returning-your-ballot-early/AHYLXIRCNFHL7PLQSGRPP3H7XA/"},{"_id":"HABIPGZTUVAQBEW7KPBXC4TTGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729868946931},"type":"text","content":"The Republican National Committee and others named as plaintiffs in the lawsuits challenged UOCAVA voters in Michigan and North Carolina who have never lived there but whose parents claimed residency there. The Michigan lawsuit also challenged the rights of spouses under those circumstances."},{"_id":"2DNHB36UWRDQVNH4F4RQO7DI24","additional_properties":{"_id":1729868946932},"type":"text","content":"In the Michigan lawsuit, a judge ruled it was filed too close to Election Day and called it an “11th hour attempt to disenfranchise” voters in the general election. 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His allies, including Elon Musk, owner of the social media platform X, then spread the disinformation."},{"_id":"TCDQVBKGIBE33E2GRBQ7KNHCZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":"YFK4M5GTHREDZNEIGKOSK4G2WU"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Vance and Walz served in the military. That’s what matters, some voters in Georgia say","url":"https://www.ajc.com/politics/vance-and-walz-served-in-the-military-thats-what-matters-some-voters-in-georgia-say/BCWAB2ADKRH4VBY4WCCQPEGQA4/"},{"_id":"C3EHBVZDNRFM7B5PYGZS2K3KLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1729868946938},"type":"text","content":"Kathy Boockvar, an elections expert and the former Pennsylvania secretary of state during the 2020 election, noted that the rules for military overseas voting have been in place for years. She questioned the timing of the legal challenges and said it was part of an effort to discredit the elections process and fuel conspiracy theories that set the stage for legal challenges."},{"_id":"PAVBXMCEFFEVPE3TLLDG76K6RI","additional_properties":{"_id":1729868946939},"type":"text","content":"“When people think of election subversion, they think of this sort of overt means of election subversion. Like the fake electors scheme or efforts to change the election rules at the last minute or things that are kind of obvious ways to change the results of an election,” she said. “But in many ways, it’s the quietly subversive actions that are the most insidious forms of election subversion.”"},{"_id":"W2W26CX5MVDMJBUNG4FJD3TKTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1729868946940},"type":"text","content":"Boyle worries about how false information could still spread about military voting. 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They’ve lost their home; they’ve lost their belongings; they’re temporarily displaced. That’s why we bring all our programs to bear to make sure we can give each family what they need for their specific situation,” she said."},{"_id":"KUMBY7JCTNDKHB56UXF5N7GA6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1729789646048},"type":"text","content":"So far, 60,555 area residents have applied for assistance, according to Johnson. Across Georgia, 333,000 individuals have already registered and $159 million has been distributed, Criswell said."},{"_id":"S6VOF574FJAN5BJVI4RJ5RG5RU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729789646049},"type":"text","content":"“That number will go up,” Criswell said."},{"_id":"XSJ5JMCQTBEBRLENI43SMAS5RM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729789646050},"type":"text","content":"There is a Disaster Relief Center set up in Augusta at the HUB on Chaffee Avenue. People can also apply online at <a href=\"http://disasterassistance.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">disasterassistance.gov</a> or call (800) 621-3362 (FEMA). In addition, there are disaster relief specialists who are going into areas to meet people and find out their needs. 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Research shows that this type of bird-filled bubble is not unusual at the heart of a cyclone, and that avian species can survive if they remain there until the storm subsides."},{"_id":"FBCA4REJG5DY3PAQXZT33UC2FA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729267657144},"type":"text","content":"For the most part, birds are experts at hunkering down or fleeing during a hurricane, but not every species is lucky enough to find refuge. Storms can fling birds such as petrels, songbirds or egrets into new places, where they may struggle to find food or habitat. Storms are particularly harmful for nesting birds. For example, when Hurricane Beryl hit Texas in August, storm surge and heavy winds <a href=\"https://tx.audubon.org/news/hurricane-beryl-after-storm-impacts-paint-bleak-picture-many-nesting-birds#:~:text=For%20actively%20and%20recently%20nesting,the%20Texas%2DLouisiana%20state%20line.\">decimated entire nesting colonies</a> for species such as black skimmers and least terns."},{"_id":"7RGDDXP6YBFXJE4YX3VNM7SQKU","additional_properties":{"_id":"GLAYOZSDLNAFJKOHVEFODPGL2M"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Birds, animals have strategies for surviving storms","url":"https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/environment/birds-animals-have-strategies-for-surviving-storms/uVbN772Xd8qqH1aoXVyo2O/"},{"_id":"VV25SS7KSJBWPO66WE3TDKINI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729267657145},"type":"text","content":"Different scenes are playing out underwater. In Florida, some of the most common creatures stirred up during storms are alligators. Last week, officials <a href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4927526-hurricane-milton-gators-stingrays-snakes-floodwaters/\">warned locals</a> to stay away from floodwaters or ponds in the wake of Hurricane Milton, where wildlife could be hiding beneath the surface. Residents have spotted gators in some unexpected places—from <a href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/weather/hurricanes/alligators-snakes-lurk-florida-floodwaters-hurricane-milton-rcna175247\">home gyms to submerged streets</a>, NBC News reports."},{"_id":"UTB5FWPSNNHPPBCIZWVAESFE6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1729267657146},"type":"text","content":"Other animals are not as well equipped to roam the streets after being displaced by a hurricane. Following Helene, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission <a href=\"https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2024/10/10/rare-salamander-species-may-be-devastated-after-helenes-wnc-floods/75585186007/\">received several reports</a> of stranded or dead eastern hellbenders, a rare species of salamander that is frequently washed out of their riverine habitats during floods, which <a href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04072024/north-carolina-hellbenders-threatened-by-climate-change/\">my colleague Lisa Sorg wrote about in July</a>. In Florida, the storm trapped <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfHcAFpOKVc\">four manatees</a> in a cemetery pond in Key Largo after they reached it via floodwaters, <a href=\"https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2024/10/04/hurricane-helene-manatee-rescue-largo/\">the Tampa Bay Times reports</a>."},{"_id":"NXAW2TO3YFB7FPIDJQ56EJHVR4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729267657147},"type":"text","content":"“As Florida natives, manatees are well-adapted to the extreme weather events in our state,” <a href=\"https://savethemanatee.org/save-the-manatee-club-statement-on-hurricane-milton/\">reads a press release</a> from the nonprofit Save the Manatee Club. “However, they do face significant risk during powerful storms. 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In some cases, tiger sharks have been known to stay behind or show up during and after a hurricane, likely to feed on the dead animals left behind, according to a <a href=\"https://news.miami.edu/rosenstiel/stories/2021/05/new-study-tracked-large-sharks-during-hurricanes.html\">2021 study</a>."},{"_id":"UIEU5A5CPNDCRIMQF25HBQU4PM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729267657151},"type":"text","content":"Meanwhile, stagnant floodwaters can create mini-habitats where mosquitoes thrive. That’s bad news for us humans; research shows post-hurricane mosquito booms can carry diseases like dengue and malaria. Hurricane Helene also impacted a number of underground nests of yellow jackets and bees, prompting a surge in requests for Benadryl and epinephrine injections to help mitigate allergic reactions, according to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. 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They were present at the dinner to present their findings, making a compelling case for why the group of women they’d started calling the “wild card” demographic could decide whether Republican Donald Trump or Democrat Kamala Harris ends up in the White House."},{"_id":"RFK7OKTLYZBHHH3MWJGCSDK2W4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237742},"type":"text","content":"“We got very interested in older women voters a few years ago — nobody else was really focusing on them,” AARP Executive Vice President Nancy LeaMond said at the top of the briefing. “There are 63 million women voters over the age of 50 and about 97 percent of them say they are going to vote.”"},{"_id":"ZOPVY4EGXNFUVN2BZFLD75ZIUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237743},"type":"text","content":"Women over 50 are high-propensity voters — voter turnout rates increase with age and women vote at higher rates than men. So, in the final weeks ahead of an election, while campaigns focus on turning out other demographic groups at risk of staying home, like Gen Z voters or Black men, for women over 50, it’s still about persuasion. And they have expressed openness to it: AARP polling shows that this year, women over 50 have moved more than any other group of voters, including younger women and men in the same age bracket. And they moved in Harris’ favor."},{"_id":"6T5GYXH7Z5GSNEYLVXHMNYZ7CU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237744},"type":"text","content":"“Young women had not really moved, they were voting for the Democratic candidate before, they were voting for the Democratic candidate afterwards. Older men had not really moved, they were supporting Trump before, they were supporting Trump afterwards. Younger men had moved a little bit, but it wasn’t a large amount of movement. The biggest movement, far and away, was these women, 50 plus,” Soltis Anderson said."},{"_id":"AVIEHG2BT5EZTI7LCCHF7Q3TUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237745},"type":"text","content":"In January, women over 50 supported President Joe Biden by 3 points; by September they supported Harris by 12 points. Over the same time period, women under 50 went from supporting Biden by 15 points to supporting Harris by 11 points. Men over 50 went from supporting Trump by 11 points to supporting him by 12 points."},{"_id":"E4EP663BV5HPFOKHXD6IB23S4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237746},"type":"text","content":"“We were a little bit torn on how to describe them, and we wound up settling on the term ‘wild card,’ because swing voter is so overused, and swing voter assumes that somebody doesn’t really know what they’re gonna do,” Soltis Anderson said."},{"_id":"6YWTH5RMWFG73JDNVM7IU6PPQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237747},"type":"text","content":"“We know that women over 50 are very plugged in. They are focused on the news, they are educated, they are motivated, they are ready to participate … Now do I think that that means that on Election Day they will definitely be a group that is double digits for Kamala Harris? I don’t think that’s guaranteed. I think that, because this group is so plugged in, because they told us in our poll that they felt that elected officials were not doing a good job of listening to their economic concerns, that they still are a group that is available to someone like Donald Trump.”"},{"_id":"LAFZISCKOZE23MOCGK5FMM44F4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237748},"type":"text","content":"Soltis Anderson and Omero explained that women over 50 have consolidated thus far behind Harris in large part because they trust the vice president to do a better job handling the issues most important to them — and the issues most important to them reflect concerns that are often unique to their cohort. Just 16 percent of women over 50 think that “elected officials have done a good job understanding the financial challenges of people like them.” Republican women and political independents were more likely to believe that elected officials have done a “poor” job."},{"_id":"7FAJC2XCP5GDNKBZHBLDEFQVJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237749},"type":"text","content":"Women over 50 are “very uncertain about their long-term economic future,” the polling showed. While 57 percent have enough savings to cover a $500 emergency expense, only 38 percent could cover three months of expenses if they lost their income. Sixty-two percent of women over 50 said they do not feel the economy is “working well for them personally.”"},{"_id":"7B5E22W2JFAE5IY7B4ZCT6BV6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"YBTBQOVZ4NGSJI2IGS6XC4KOMY"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Seniors are the fastest growing group of voters in Georgia. 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Womens’ economic concerns were driven in part by the reality that 44 percent of those surveyed did not have a retirement savings account or a pension."},{"_id":"K2T5FZGXZNA5ZF4AU6OLEGGLLE","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237751},"type":"text","content":"When asked to assess whether various policy measures would help them personally, 84 percent of women over 50 said that what would help them a lot is “protecting Social Security from cuts,” followed by lowering the cost of food, then expanding Medicare to cover dental and vision, then lowering the costs of health care and gasoline."},{"_id":"3N3DOH32LNHSZMJHG6SI2MNUBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237752},"type":"text","content":"While women over 50 were somewhat closely divided over whether Harris or Trump would do a better job handling the economy overall (46 percent versus 42 percent), on the issues most important to them, Harris has commanding, double-digit leads. On Social Security and Medicare, 52 percent of women trusted Harris versus 36 percent Trump. On the cost of prescription drugs, 52 percent of women picked Harris versus 35 percent Trump."},{"_id":"3XSIVAY4UVBMLG6CND3BNDE22M","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237753},"type":"text","content":"“The more specific you got about your economic indicator, the more women over 50 said that they favor Harris over Trump,” Omero said."},{"_id":"E3HUNIPI6BGF5J36QC3BXAP5NU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237754},"type":"text","content":"Trump’s public pledge to protect Social Security is popular with older voters, though women still trust Harris more. The costs of long-term care for aging adults is another economic issue on which women over 50 preferred Harris by a sizable margin, 48 percent for Harris to 34 percent for Trump."},{"_id":"MBANGXH25RDMTKDD7D5AECMTQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237755},"type":"text","content":"The AARP briefing occurred just days after Harris announced a plan to expand Medicare to cover the cost of long-term care on “The View,” a morning talk show popular with women. Trump has reiterated his support for a GOP proposal that would provide $5,000 tax credits to those caring for aging family members. Though the AARP is nonpartisan and therefore does not endorse, LeaMond said she was “delighted to see a presidential candidate talk about what is really a crisis, long-term care.”"},{"_id":"N4SUCB45S5DNBHBST7VJBDG2B4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237756},"type":"text","content":"“Plus, a little reported part [of Harris’ plan], which was also covering vision and hearing as part of Medicare, is definitely a focus for older voters, and especially older women,” LeaMond added."},{"_id":"3AX6PMBB35BAHFHEJGYYBDOP6I","additional_properties":{"_id":"MNUX7V7TIZEZXEO73RI47B7ISY"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Here’s how the AJC is getting you ready for Election Day","url":"https://www.ajc.com/politics/heres-how-the-ajc-is-getting-you-ready-for-election-day/ZWWAEOH4XJBLVECENA66S4HEWQ/"},{"_id":"TRES7CWRRNENPL2QKXW2FYW3FY","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237757},"type":"text","content":"Social Security is the government’s retirement program — it is a primary source of income later in life for older Americans, particularly those who did not have employer-provided pensions or retirement savings plans. Monthly Social Security benefits are based on work history and women receive average benefits that are only about 80 percent of what men receive, in part due to lower wages, shorter work histories and workforce interruptions to care for children or aging parents. <a href=\"https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v77n2/v77n2p1.html\">More than half of elderly households</a> report that Social Security benefits make up more than half of their income; for a quarter of elderly households, the benefits make up at least 90 percent. American women live, on average, about six years longer than men."},{"_id":"PR4IEWHDOJE6BHMWIBBX7AW2UM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237758},"type":"text","content":"Kathryn Engelhard, 69, told The 19th after a recent Harris campaign event in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, that protecting Social Security is her top concern headed into November, followed by health care. She described herself as a loyal Democrat who would also have voted for Biden a second time but thinks some of the shift to Harris among women over 50 is also a combination of concern about Republican policies on reproductive health care and the knowledge this could be the last chance to elect a woman president in some of their lifetimes."},{"_id":"YFAW67RAMBHPFNWSRRISQNLY4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237759},"type":"text","content":"“I think the reality of what is going on with women’s rights — especially with JD Vance, it is frightening,” Engelhard said of Trump’s running mate, a U.S. senator from Ohio."},{"_id":"6GGTKNPMYBEHRNEI2AH2OC3JXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1729264237760},"type":"text","content":"Trump picked Vance shortly before Harris replaced Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket. Other GOP candidates this cycle have questioned whether women are too focused on reproductive rights in the first presidential election since the fall of Roe v. 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Voters here in 2022 resoundingly re-elected Gov. Ron DeSantis, at the time a potential frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination. Republicans hold every statewide elected office, control the legislature and boast 1 million more voter registrations than Democrats. But for many years Florida was a must-win swing state, opting six times in a row for the prevailing presidential candidate, from Bill Clinton in 1996 to Trump in 2016. For much of the 20th century, Democrats ruled the state."},{"_id":"SK75WRTHUBCCNDNJT7KEYKSPRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728491907777},"type":"text","content":"Scott is accustomed to close races and has shown a willingness to spend his own fortune to win. A former hospital company executive, he was elected governor in 2010 as a Tea Party candidate, upsetting then-Attorney General Bill McCollum in the GOP primary before narrowly defeating Democrat Alex Sink. Scott was re-elected in 2014."},{"_id":"YEOBHWTEYREVLEYXO6YS6Q3POM","additional_properties":{"_id":"Q3C4AZZQ5VGCNPY3TPHTBTYZNA"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Opinion: From denial to devastation: Conservatives must accept climate reality","url":"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/opinion-from-denial-to-devastation-conservatives-must-accept-climate-reality/DW42GQXEZ5BOJNM3ILYMFA6EIA/"},{"_id":"UTZZTOPTPNERRGLFGDO3CVTXWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728491907778},"type":"text","content":"While leading the state, Scott focused on jobs and transformed Florida’s policy on the environment and climate. He gutted environmental efforts such as Florida Forever, the state’s land conservation program, and dismantled the Department of Community Affairs, eliminating state oversight of local planning decisions. Most notably he<a href=\"http://fcir.org/2015/03/08/in-florida-officials-ban-term-climate-change/\"> reportedly banned</a> Department of Environmental Protection staffers from using the words “climate change” or “global warming” in official communications or reports, making him a <a href=\"https://floridapolitics.com/archives/14417-daily-show-hilarious-mocks-rick-scotts-ban-on-global-warming/\">punchline</a> of late-night comedians."},{"_id":"RQU7XDEYABEB7BQVLXEE44LSPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728491907779},"type":"text","content":"“Scott really seemed not to do much to help the environment and instead seemed to go out of his way to do things to hurt the environment,” Jewett said. “He was just so focused on economic development, it was to the exclusion of everything else.”"},{"_id":"RKZJ4AM2QNGLVGCSRVJBOKPYN4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728491907780},"type":"text","content":"When asked about his views on the climate, Scott was known to say he was “not a scientist,” prompting a group of climate scientists to reach out in 2014 for a meeting. 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A former administrator at Florida International University, she lived in California and then Miami after emigrating from Ecuador with her mother and sisters."},{"_id":"255STI6WRRGUDBO2D47VFIAXMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728491907790},"type":"text","content":"While in Congress, Mucarsel-Powell helped bring $200 million to the state for Everglades restoration and also worked on environmental issues such as protecting water quality and coral reefs. She told Inside Climate News she is especially concerned about communities that are struggling to endure sea level rise and other climate impacts. Government can help by offering property owners buy-outs, to help them relocate to less risky areas, she said."},{"_id":"ZDKDGWXX2RGYNNUEEDP6J2APUQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728491907791},"type":"text","content":"“There are certain communities that are not going to be able to build back. 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One recent<a href=\"https://www.ces.fau.edu/ces-bepi/march-2024.php\"> survey</a> from Florida Atlantic University found that 90 percent of respondents believed climate change was real, compared with 70 percent of Americans who answered similarly on a separate Yale University<a href=\"https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications/climate-change-in-the-american-mind-beliefs-attitudes-spring-2024/toc/2/\"> survey</a>."},{"_id":"26DTSWUE6JHPTCJ6NVLXGQKCVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728491907793},"type":"text","content":"That may be because Florida is uniquely vulnerable to the consequences of climate change, especially hotter temperatures, rising seas and more damaging storms. In the last seven years the state has weathered six major hurricanes. <a href=\"https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL142018_Michael.pdf\">Michael</a>, which made landfall in 2018 in the Panhandle, was the first category 5 storm to strike the continental United States since Andrew in 1992.<a href=\"https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092022_Ian.pdf\"> Ian</a>, which hit southwest Florida in 2022, was the costliest hurricane in state history and third-costliest on record nationwide after Katrina in 2005 and Harvey in 2017. It will be some time before the scope of Helene’s impact is fully understood. This week the state braced for Milton, predicted to hit the peninsula’s Gulf coast. Recent major hurricanes also include Irma in 2017 and Idalia in 2023."},{"_id":"SZXNEQCHZRATZOYZPJL6KTNT7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1728491907794},"type":"text","content":"“Climate policy is important to Florida. 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His yard was covered in branches and stumps and full trees when the Ledger-Enquirer reported on Shahan’s experience of Idalia last year."},{"_id":"MGOSQVZAERHQTAAE7BK5N4XA2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844895},"type":"text","content":"Thirteen months later, Hurricane Helene swirled through Lowndes County, affecting the same areas of Valdosta again."},{"_id":"S5OII5JQXBDGTK7F42BIIOOXBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844896},"type":"text","content":"Shahan said this time around, trees partially broke through his roof, but the damage wasn’t nearly as bad as last year."},{"_id":"4PI2EQKOZRCXFKSBJ346LXC7W4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844897},"type":"text","content":"And, a blue tarp lay on top of his roof where the tree from last year fell."},{"_id":"P4GSBUK3LJB4DIEFVDU6PF63GA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844898},"type":"text","content":"“We never fixed it from last year,” he said."},{"_id":"LBJFMUCWQRAMNGDWY7YIJMWRNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844899},"type":"text","content":"The tarp has been there for one year, and thanks to thousands of staples and hammered nails, it held up through Tropical Storm Debby, Hurricane Helene and other rain events throughout the year."},{"_id":"XLI7CXZ55FG3XAD64GUE54XNJ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844900},"type":"text","content":"Helene blew over Valdosta at over 111 mph, classified Category 3 hurricane wind speeds. 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He spent $1,000 on three chainsaws and bought a generator. After waking up unscathed with trees in his front and backyard, he was thankful all he had to do was clean up trees. His neighbor’s car was completely crushed by one that fell from his yard."},{"_id":"FDOL5K7SHVHTTBDOW66756BWOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844906},"type":"text","content":"Shahan spent most of the next several days creating dozens of tree stumps and putting the chainsaws he bought to work."},{"_id":"EHKNOCSVENCH3BUDRDTEATLZFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844907},"type":"text","content":"“This time I couldn’t afford to pay someone so I bought chainsaws myself,” he said."},{"_id":"6YCKKMABGNCFDKSY7VSRT7HXCI","additional_properties":{"_id":"S6T6LLC6S5HZVH6HQ6IYCETB6M"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Valdosta battered by Helene’s winds: ‘It’s like a war zone’","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/valdosta-battered-by-helenes-winds-its-like-a-war-zone/SJLYLIX42JA6LNJYV6GNMHK4ZI/"},{"_id":"7KP7TKRZIJC63L2OLLGZ65OUBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844909},"type":"text","content":"The quotes that tree service removal companies give after disasters range from $5,000 to $15,000. Price gouging during these events has been a rampant problem throughout Georgia, according to the Georgia Office of Insurance Commission."},{"_id":"N4X3BRLL7JC4PPZFHSOSELCS3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844910},"type":"text","content":"“I got the generator before the storm. I got a chainsaw, generator, some gas, so I was a little prepared, but next time I’d get even more gas,” he said. “My friend next door has a skid loader and that’s the only way I was able to get the logs up to the street.”"},{"_id":"DDQL4OK6F5DG7APV3HTSUSAAFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844911},"type":"text","content":"The generator is powering his window air conditioning units and a few lights and fans in the house."},{"_id":"CSZWXM3QRZDMNOA4NCYEPPRWZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844912},"type":"text","content":"<b>The cost to repair without insurance</b>"},{"_id":"EDFEN3OZRFANFCLVWKHKNW3ZHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844913},"type":"text","content":"Like his roof, his kitchen still has damage from Idalia."},{"_id":"NDDDZG5C6VD55EJIWXG3XOTGMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844914},"type":"text","content":"“A local company last time (during Idalia) quoted the roof alone (at) $40,000,” Shahan said. “And damage on the inside from flooring and mold and all that, they said it would be closer to $90,000.”"},{"_id":"356ZXWTCPBHOZFNYH6BPV5RHWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844915},"type":"text","content":"Shahan filed for assistance with FEMA shortly after the hurricane last year."},{"_id":"UTQHBILGNJC2VHPYL2GZD6LLTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844916},"type":"text","content":"Shahan’s wife, Amber, owns the home. She bought it a year or so before Idalia with inheritance money after her dad died. Initially, she had home insurance, but decided to forgo it after realizing a repair to her rain gutter and roof could be fixed by her brother for $90 and avoid a $2,000 deductible."},{"_id":"DMXLQ2HTJVA2DIH2YRLDJGXF6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844917},"type":"text","content":"“I can’t afford like a $2,000 deductible for a small little thing, so I canceled it,” she said. “We don’t have hurricanes in Valdosta, right?” she said sarcastically. “And then, of course, here it comes.”"},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"6e7f75adabcd2ac1a923ba8d5f50e74aa0ed6e472a60aff34d6d6a2180f5804a"},"caption":"This side-by-side image shows Daniel Shahan in front of his and his wife’s Valdosta home in August 2023 and October 2024. In the image on the left, Hurricane Idalia had knocked a tree onto his home. 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But that ended up going toward other bills and quickly got used."},{"_id":"VB4QZMQWF5GALC2QQWFVLUHMMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844921},"type":"text","content":"“We used it to pay for gas, catch up on bills, buy food and live off of, then they would send a little more,” Daniel Shahan said. “They didn’t give us enough money to fix the house. And they said they had given all the funds out.”"},{"_id":"5PQ6FHIC4RDCZBLDJXAMQ42XO4","additional_properties":{"_id":"LGE3OJIPUJEZ3E26LMPSTO2BFI"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"‘This storm spared no one.’ Helene’s widespread devastation","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/this-storm-spared-no-one-helenes-widespread-devastation/2ZVLP2SX6FHRRLPETAGIMFXLBU/"},{"_id":"VHMDS4F7P5HCTI3FWBSODC7M3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844923},"type":"text","content":"Daniel Shahan said if he had filed sooner and if they hadn’t given all the money out, they probably would have had a lot more help."},{"_id":"R56VWHI5IBCKXOGIAWO4XKHIFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844924},"type":"text","content":"“We didn’t know what to file for or how to do it, but this time we’ve already filed and know what to expect,” he said."},{"_id":"RF45HB3N7JEQXDUEY23DJQOUJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844925},"type":"text","content":"<b>How much will FEMA provide now?</b>"},{"_id":"2P7P5TLD3BCKLKTMCH3U2T6NZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844926},"type":"text","content":"When Gov. 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She also said the Small Business Administration is a great place to get a loan with a very low interest rate and a low credit requirement."},{"_id":"NMBHMCN4QZCCJK5JMSHVDF4DQE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844932},"type":"text","content":"“It’s not just for businesses, it’s for individuals,” she said."},{"_id":"TCFLMSKOEJGHTL2I6GR62IXBNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844933},"type":"text","content":"Why not get insurance between the two hurricanes? Shahan said he was certain no one would take him on as a client since his house had so much damage from Idalia."},{"_id":"MKQXAJSVXJEQRBI7DNTPHCFPYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728495844934},"type":"text","content":"“Who would insure us?” he asked. 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Last week, Roan posted <a href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@chappellroan/video/7418582700141055278?lang=en\">a TikTok</a> in which she tried to clarify her views and plans for voting: She intended to cast a ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris, but with the caveat that she did not intend to endorse her. While Roan said she did not support policies on the right, she also questioned some policies on the left."},{"_id":"FSSOYOU6ONHRRAHW56M3H2RS3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087923},"type":"text","content":"“That’s why I can’t endorse,” she said. “That’s why I can’t, like, put my entire name and my entire project behind one.”"},{"_id":"3SDZ4GKGLZGHPOUTU4B5AXHJBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087924},"type":"text","content":"Overnight, users on the social media platforms where Roan has active accounts flooded the comments section, mostly saying she should have endorsed Harris. The anonymity of the internet means it’s difficult to know who has been behind the criticism."},{"_id":"APCXXVOG4NDYVI7NXKJXP2MDZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087925},"type":"text","content":"Roan, a member of <a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2024/09/young-voters-views-climate-gun-violence-immigration-gaza/\">the potentially potent Gen Z voting bloc</a>, described some policies on the left as “completely transphobic” and “completely genocidal.” She has shown public support for ending the war in Gaza, <a href=\"https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/chappell-roan-friendship-bracelets-for-gaza\">including by raising funds at her merchandise table during concerts</a>."},{"_id":"ILZ4EBNENZFIZGF23JRSLJMSVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087926},"type":"text","content":"A queer woman with a campy, drag-inspired aesthetic, Roan is among a group of celebrities who continue to reshape the role of political endorsements this election cycle — or at least the expectations on when and how celebrities weigh in. Experts say as fans increasingly project intense, one-sided relationships with their idols — in Roan’s case, one fueled by a meteoric rise over just a few months — those followers expect more from them in spaces like politics."},{"_id":"U7U3QAV24RCC5NQIVMB52RRSKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087927},"type":"text","content":"“When you have a more niche identity or one that’s not everywhere, you certainly are more likely to develop a stronger parasocial relationship with that person by seeing, ‘Oh, this person and I share this identity that’s minoritized, and therefore I feel that stronger bond because there’s fewer of us out there,” said Megan Duncan, an associate professor of communication at Virginia Tech who has studied celebrity endorsements."},{"_id":"KBXLCME4MNA3VOQPEXK7DBZVL4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087928},"type":"text","content":"But gender and queerness could also be playing a role on the level of vitriol that Roan has faced."},{"_id":"I6IV5B4O2FFMXJW5OWXETESPVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087929},"type":"text","content":"“What’s happening to her is what has happened to a lot of pop stars before her — her alleged fans create impossible standards and expectations for her, and then watch her fail after climbing so high,” said Kristin Lieb, professor of communication at Emerson College and author of <a href=\"https://kristinjlieb.com/\">“Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry: The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars.”</a> “As fans we build them up to a certain point, but at that certain point, the script sort of flips. Now, she’s maybe a little bit too powerful, and now maybe all we’re doing is trying to find what’s wrong with her so we can neutralize her power.”"},{"_id":"ZOGV74RLSBBG5JJQCUKFQWSQRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087930},"type":"text","content":"Celebrity endorsements date back more than 100 years, to when silent film actors Al Jolson and Mary Pickford <a href=\"https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/warren-g-harding-was-the-first-celebrityendorsed-president\">endorsed Warren G. Harding for president during the 1920 presidential election</a>."},{"_id":"QG7U4IF2BBFHDC2GQ5CGPNFPTI","additional_properties":{"_id":"CD4HS3TSYVA2VMO3C3Q2NNKYFE"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Here are the celebrities endorsing Donald Trump and Kamala Harris","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/business/the-major-celebrities-who-have-endorsed-harris-and-trump/AP7ZT5VVLFHTBLQZFVCZDZILQU/"},{"_id":"5LBRLWV4BFAJHP5JDE2AZQIESQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087932},"type":"text","content":"This year, actors including Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria had speaking roles at the Democratic National Convention, while <a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2024/07/amber-rose-republican-national-convention/\">model and television personality Amber Rose</a> and <a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2024/07/rnc-trump-masculinity/\">wrestler Hulk Hogan</a> appeared at the Republican National Convention. When Taylor Swift <a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2024/09/taylor-swift-endorses-kamala-harris/\">endorsed Harris after the September 10 presidential debate</a>, it generated headlines."},{"_id":"4B6BA6YJWBD55NV73BW35FLO2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087933},"type":"text","content":"But these endorsements have evolved in an election cycle where the internet is a key form of communication. When pop star Charli xcx <a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2024/07/kamala-harris-hq-charli-xcx-brat-campaign/\">declared that “kamala IS brat,”</a> it shaped the zeitgeist of Harris’ unexpected jump into the presidential election."},{"_id":"W54UXI623VBALJAGM7NF766KLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087934},"type":"text","content":"<a href=\"https://www.cpp.edu/class/political-science/participate/undergraduatejournal/vol5/5santillan.pdf\">Data shows a mixed bag</a> on the effect of political endorsements. Some researchers determined that Oprah Winfrey’s endorsement of Barack Obama ahead of the 2008 presidential primary <a href=\"https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/the_oprah_effect\">may have generated 1 million additional votes for him</a>, a conclusion they reached by comparing subscriptions to her magazine with regions where Obama did well electorally. (It was Winfrey’s first political endorsement, and she has since endorsed other Democratic presidential candidates, including Harris.)"},{"_id":"L4INO3SQUFHUBPECOYF7X2AWUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087935},"type":"text","content":"Within 24 hours of Swift’s endorsement, which included a link to <a href=\"http://vote.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Vote.org</a> on her Instagram story, <a href=\"https://vote.gov/\">more than 405,000 people visited the site</a>. 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But in the aftermath of other celebrities offering more definitive takes, Roan committed what Yates described as “expectancy violation.” She noted similar blowback toward other women celebrities who have called for a ceasefire in Gaza."},{"_id":"PJREIRGHARGYVPFOZNH3WF2RZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087938},"type":"text","content":"“Women are held to the standard of they must be agreeable, they must be nurturing, supportive — all these gendered stereotypes,” said Yates, who <a href=\"https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-75572-0_5\">researches American politics, campaigns and gender</a>. “And when they violate this expectation of how public women are supposed to behave, then there is a greater degree of negative feedback.”"},{"_id":"NYATIR4XCBETDNZTH5KJ2X2CMI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087939},"type":"text","content":"Yates said there’s an added expectation on women to “walk back” the stances that they do take."},{"_id":"CZP6OZWEYVBBJDNOCKMJOOGC3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087940},"type":"text","content":"“It’s not just the negative reception of these comments, but it’s also the pressure for women to clarify themselves,” she said. “Whereas men don’t necessarily need to do that.”"},{"_id":"YWLI5JH5WBGFVOQAEUNZC6E4GA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087941},"type":"text","content":"Lieb noted the difference in pressure on artists who are men."},{"_id":"4E2HO6ZN3ZA7NP7P6OXOG2ZQVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087942},"type":"text","content":"“They have an easier time doing what you would imagine they would do in their profession,” she said. “If they’re a musician, they’re making music, if they’re an actor, they’re acting. With women, it’s sort of like this role has expanded. So you’re not just a maker of music, songs and videos and performance spectacles. You also have to be an advocate, a political adviser and, ultimately, a punching bag.”"},{"_id":"66XLQFHN4ZDAVLP3BXNSQTMFC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087943},"type":"text","content":"Lieb said Roan’s popularity is also the product of a pop star fandom that has evolved to not just expect control of one’s body, but also their minds. As Roan and other artists share more of their views on platforms like social media, the fallout can be greater."},{"_id":"MGEBYNDPMRF6XHWRQJ5KJN2QFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087944},"type":"text","content":"“There’s definitely a level of empowerment for both artist and fan sharing deep, personal narratives, but there are also some hazards to that, where you’re sharing your deepest traumas with a public that can be very vicious,” she said."},{"_id":"LG37ZQCKWNDOPNRQTJJ5EVWI54","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087945},"type":"text","content":"Mark Harvey, associate professor at the University of Saint Mary and author of <a href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Celebrity-Influence-Politics-Persuasion-Issue-Based/dp/0700624988\">“Celebrity Influence: Politics, Persuasion, and Issue-Based Advocacy,”</a> added that it’s difficult to gauge who is criticizing Roan."},{"_id":"UCBYCW7NJFDWNNHM3GJTG4KLIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087946},"type":"text","content":"“If she’s that open and accepting, her fanbase would give her that kind of grace,” he said. “Which makes me wonder whether or not the trouble that she’s getting maybe isn’t from her fanbase, but maybe from people who are just harassing her from the outside.”"},{"_id":"AO6QO6E7BZB7NJTUVMGEPT6J3A","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087947},"type":"text","content":"The criticism facing Roan started after she posted <a href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@chappellroan/video/7404957266853645611?lang=en\">a set of TikToks</a> on August 19 denouncing “creepy behavior” from some fans, which she described as “stalking” and “harassment.” Attention to her political stances were then kicked up by an interview with <a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/sep/20/fame-is-like-going-through-puberty-chappell-roan-on-sexuality-superstardom-and-the-joy-of-drag\">the Guardian published September 20</a>."},{"_id":"MRAJH6N6DZH47P5L6OCL4CGOFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087948},"type":"text","content":"“I have so many issues with our government in every way,” Roan said in the interview, which generated headlines. “There are so many things that I would want to change. So I don’t feel pressured to endorse someone. There’s problems on both sides. I encourage people to use your critical thinking skills, use your vote — vote small, vote for what’s going on in your city.”"},{"_id":"4WITIQ62URE2DEF6BLNIS73DJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087949},"type":"text","content":"Later, Roan criticized Trump but also chastised the Democratic Party. Roan refuted the narrative that she was “playing both sides.”"},{"_id":"MNVWV4VD3RDZTHSMYTSBWBRHHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087950},"type":"text","content":"“No no no. This is not me playing both sides,” she said. “This is me questioning both sides because this is what we have in front of us.”"},{"_id":"Q3ZHP5OCCFFYFPPJZQVKIYLGEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087951},"type":"text","content":"That kind of nuance can get lost in politics, said Lieb, who suggested that Roan’s followers examine how they’re responding to this moment — and what it could preview for future pop stars."},{"_id":"JANG5QJNCFBRPEHM5PXNJHHY7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1728145087952},"type":"text","content":"“Is there a way that we can ask audiences to reconsider their side of the artist-fan relationship?” she said. “Are your expectations out of balance? 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She’d moved there in 2021 when a fellow church member offered her a property that accepted funding from Section 8, a housing assistance program."},{"_id":"RTGYUYJOQBGVBCY2Q5NS6FGP7E","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994573},"type":"text","content":"The garbage problems began when Jackson, a Black mother of three, received a notice that the bill had not been paid. Jackson said she’d been told upon moving in that the utilities were to be included in the rent. Jackson contacted the landlord, who assured her that the issue would be resolved. Soon, though, Jackson’s trash can was taken and she received another bill. This time, she said, the utility account had been shifted from her landlord’s name to hers—unpaid balance of over $1,000 included."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"baf218f57b75a4a8a643827d64f748f117df53be4d04c3d52eee7585c51a4095"},"caption":"Shaquala Jackson had to leave her home once her garbage can was taken over past due bills. 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She said she immediately contacted the city. An employee told her the bill was her responsibility and they did not accept partial payments."},{"_id":"NHARUP6MNRE2HCWGPAFLORJC4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994575},"type":"text","content":"“I just couldn’t pay that much,” Jackson said. “Not all at one time.”"},{"_id":"NOG55NNIUNFVJDPVBXI4GTUHIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994576},"type":"text","content":"So Jackson’s trash began to pile up in the carport just outside her home. Three young children, she said, produce more trash than you realize."},{"_id":"A2AHAVCD4NAL5GKOAXUNM4V5FI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994577},"type":"text","content":"The last straw came when her three-year-old screamed in the bathroom."},{"_id":"TE7YQS6KXFCWZKEBD2PGEOYZZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994578},"type":"text","content":"“It’s a big cock-a-roach,” her daughter yelled."},{"_id":"M74RLSAZCZGBLFXWMKUPHLOICE","additional_properties":{"_id":"K7SXZNUUMRBXLKYVSRQ2WK3VOE"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"DeKalb seeks to raise residential trash fees","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/dekalb-seeks-to-raise-residential-trash-fees/2U4CECPU6RBJ7JE2EFIYUR7KHQ/"},{"_id":"SOOZGIORUJD3JBYECU2RM7U5GY","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994579},"type":"text","content":"Jackson soon realized it was no cockroach. It was a rat, something her daughter had never seen before."},{"_id":"M62TZDQN6FF4VNPLGJUZ5LTIF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994580},"type":"text","content":"She got her children out and soon left Chickasaw for good."},{"_id":"TRG65XPPXJBG5LQNEK4YAFPTMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994581},"type":"text","content":"Jackson said her children are traumatized by that memory."},{"_id":"FLU4RJSW7RH7VFVZ654XOIONTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994582},"type":"text","content":"“They’re still terrified,” she said. “Every place we move to now, they ask, ‘Are we going to see a rat? Are the rats going to eat us?’”"},{"_id":"LWYA42UIJ5EU7GLYR7M4V5FMNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994583},"type":"text","content":"<b>‘It felt like extortion’</b>"},{"_id":"ZGKHDM67R5DFPH3RMAPOGFECTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994584},"type":"text","content":"Kelia Coleman, a Black mother of five boys, said she spends every day in fear of losing her freedom and her ability to take care of her children."},{"_id":"FPPMK4ODXRFDHCTW4RC55FIDYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994585},"type":"text","content":"Each time a police cruiser passes by her home, she’s reminded of the criminal charge hanging over her head—theft of utility services—in the wake of what she says has been a nightmare of a misunderstanding. She doesn’t know whether or when a judge will issue a warrant for her arrest over her outstanding garbage bill."},{"_id":"OKN5B25FP5GK5JQXCTQSCU32KY","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994586},"type":"text","content":"Coleman’s family moved to Chickasaw about four years ago from Mobile. When they moved in, she and her husband contacted the city about beginning garbage services, which she believed would be bundled with her water service as it had been at her previous home."},{"_id":"TA5ASIYUW5DINEEHODPEZEOVKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994587},"type":"text","content":"Only years later did Coleman find out that her family’s trash fees had gone unpaid and unbilled, she said, increasing to over $1,000. When Coleman reached out to begin paying off the balance, she said she was told that partial payments were not acceptable."},{"_id":"NLP7ZZKFM5DZ7CW6VWJB4TZHGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994588},"type":"text","content":"“I did not have $1,000 to pay them all at once,” Coleman told Inside Climate News."},{"_id":"C7B7W6AXQVCZ7EDE3C4XO5ONHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994589},"type":"text","content":"Around 44 percent of Americans say they don’t have enough savings to pay an unexpected $1,000 expense, <a href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/24/many-americans-cannot-pay-for-an-unexpected-1000-expense-heres-why.html\">according to recent survey data</a>. In Chickasaw, the problem is even worse, with nearly a third of residents living below the federal poverty line, according to census data—a rate more than double the national average."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"6dc960f5a7c35528c8c087384756d54df7578f95dce4f5644e6ab91b036e9764"},"caption":"Residents without trash cans often haul off trash to nearby dumpsters or loved ones’ homes. It’s often not enough. 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Her husband began hauling it away when he could, paying to drop the trash off in neighboring majority-Black Prichard’s public-access landfill. But it’s hard to keep up."},{"_id":"MQA4WPXCKBFBBEFNHBR2J6J5B4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994591},"type":"text","content":"“It’s too much,” Coleman said. “It’s very hard for us with five small sons and no garbage pickup.”"},{"_id":"HNVRTLTGV5FI7AQLEEH46CTSDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994592},"type":"text","content":"After the trash began to accumulate, enforcement officials told Coleman that if the garbage wasn’t cleaned up, she would be fined. Infuriated, Coleman said she again demanded a payment plan. City officials relented, she said, but told her she still wouldn’t receive a garbage can until the full unpaid balance was resolved."},{"_id":"YNUOGEZTHJAL5HB7ESTTY75EC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994593},"type":"text","content":"“My mouth dropped,” she said. “It felt like extortion.”"},{"_id":"XLJKNGWJONHA7EHIBQYPQ4XFAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994594},"type":"text","content":"On top of the practical problem of garbage service, Coleman said the criminalization of her debt has left her mentally paralyzed and frightened her children."},{"_id":"2GXHVXUZXRE7LA65GQXNU3D6WU","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994595},"type":"text","content":"“They are threatening to lock me up and take me away from my kids for not paying something that I don’t have instead of working with me on it,” she said. “It’s gotten to the point where my kids are terrified of police and have full-on anxiety attacks when they see them coming.”"},{"_id":"76YBSYNBOJHY3BQTZ74RT3XPEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994596},"type":"text","content":"The situation has left Coleman depressed much of the time, overwhelmed with the trash and the fear of jail."},{"_id":"TAYHZ57HFVBQNBDDN3M5PRQFHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994597},"type":"text","content":"“I try so hard, and Chickasaw just always finds a way to knock us down,” Coleman said."},{"_id":"4D6MTHFTHBHQDIAHQZL7QAPGIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994598},"type":"text","content":"<b>The role of race</b>"},{"_id":"RIVNYLTYJFHIJJ6734X7JQ4IHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994599},"type":"text","content":"Chickasaw’s municipal court records demonstrate that Jackson and Coleman’s experience as Black women isn’t unique in the town of just under 6,500 people."},{"_id":"3J4XJTTTCZAHBJGWPKSTSLKEVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994600},"type":"text","content":"An Inside Climate News review of court records confirms that women and, in particular, Black women are arrested over nonpayment of garbage fees more than other demographic groups. Black women comprise just 25 percent of the town’s population but account for around 37 percent of trash prosecutions. Women as a whole are also more frequently charged under Chickasaw’s theft of service ordinance. While they make up about half of the town’s population, women constitute more than 61 percent of those charged."},{"_id":"QQNTFGHNZ5GD7LOFODPVTG6YKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994601},"type":"text","content":"Jackson said she’s not surprised that race plays a role in the way Chickasaw treats its residents."},{"_id":"MIYGMJY5Z5DLHJKIESP6FKIY4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994602},"type":"text","content":"“I was always told that Chickasaw was a ‘No Black Zone’ for many years,” she said. “So maybe they just want to get the Black people out of ‘their’ area.”"},{"_id":"AVUURTZTX5FJVHFNAENQLXPB4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994603},"type":"text","content":"Chickasaw began as a company town in the first half of the 20th century, housing white workers—and only white workers—for local shipbuilders in the modest houses along its narrow gridded streets."},{"_id":"TGJ5SIU6FBFPNP56PTRGPSKP24","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994604},"type":"text","content":"By 1980, despite advances in racial integration in other parts of the country, Chickasaw remained an all-white, exclusive enclave. That year, for example, <a href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/504/716/2153760/\">a federal judge ruled</a> that the city and its housing authority had illegally barred African Americans from public housing through the adoption of a Chickasaw citizenship requirement that one public official said would keep neighboring, majority-Black Mobile from using Chickasaw’s public housing as what he termed a “dumping ground for social undesirables.” At that point, <a href=\"https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/504/716/2153760/\">the court found,</a> local officials knew “the City of Chickasaw had a reputation as a Caucasian town and that no Negroes had lived in Chickasaw since World War II.”"},{"_id":"CDD2NHDZDZD77OBMCHTANBDXO4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994605},"type":"text","content":"In the decades since that suit, Chickasaw has seen Black residency within its limits climb substantially. Now, more African Americans live in Chickasaw (around 49 percent of the total population) than whites (about 44 percent of residents). Despite that change in the city’s demographics, its political leadership has remained largely the same. Today, all of Chickasaw’s city councilors are white, as is its mayor."},{"_id":"SU5VJDRUYBH4DIYXRVMQKDPN6U","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994606},"type":"text","content":"Jackson said she thinks the town’s history is baked into its present. She hopes, though, that city leaders will step up and do what she says is right: ending the prosecution of its citizens, Black and white, over an inability to pay for trash service."},{"_id":"2MBOCQ7G5RGKLOFV4INDNRDVHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994607},"type":"text","content":"<b>Cuffed over garbage</b>"},{"_id":"54XNN5JUOVHUJAVPXOHQTL2ZEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994608},"type":"text","content":"Joseph Uptagraft thought it must be some kind of confusion."},{"_id":"B5NKO6LIPNBT5PQXR6DNN7JH54","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994609},"type":"text","content":"Uptagraft, a white mechanic and father of four, was working at his shop in Theodore when his wife called. He couldn’t believe what she told him."},{"_id":"KJ6UFRA4CJFPJP7GO47K7TZKYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994610},"type":"text","content":"“Police officers had come up to my house and told my wife that they had a warrant for my arrest,” he said. Uptagraft left work and went straight to the police department, where he was told he was being arrested for theft of utility over a past-due garbage bill that Uptagraft said he’d simply overlooked. The bill had accumulated to over $1,000 including late fees, he was told. Uptagraft said he’d never been served with any summons to notify him of a court date."},{"_id":"WRVHIMGMFBCQXBH2ZPZ2MMY7A4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994611},"type":"text","content":"“They put cuffs on me behind my back,” he said. Uptagraft was transferred to nearby Saraland, then to Mobile Metro Jail, where he was booked and spent several hours before being released."},{"_id":"XREBOO72MJC65OUD2GTAEFTDZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994612},"type":"text","content":"Chickasaw’s statute provides options of fines, jail time or both for those convicted of theft of utility service. It also provides the government with the option of either simply summoning an alleged offender to criminal court or, based on the “amount and severity of alleged violations,” arresting them, according to the statute’s text."},{"_id":"KDDAIJLIZREBDKC2QRPSF7BDDU","additional_properties":{"_id":"LEGWFKQJKVFQXFEPTYSQYCD6PQ"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Audit: Atlanta spent $12M on emergency trash collection contracts","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/audit-atlanta-spent-12m-on-emergency-trash-collection-contracts/SJKO2IJYZJGH5B5I7GNXT6VPXY/"},{"_id":"ZROMZR2GTNHQ5ECWTWNLTD5RAY","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994613},"type":"text","content":"“That’s a hell of a way to tell somebody they’re past due on their bill,” Uptagraft said of the arrest. “How do they think someone in jail will manage to get it caught up?”"},{"_id":"TPSALXS4HRDBXPLWHLGFY6JTPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994614},"type":"text","content":"Uptagraft said he’s sickened by what he views as hypocrisy among those who have served city leadership."},{"_id":"3YJRZAT4S5EYRIDR4MJUTTWARU","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994615},"type":"text","content":"In 2012, water service to Chickasaw City Hall <a href=\"https://www.al.com/live/2012/04/prichard_cuts_off_water_to_chi.html\">was turned off</a> by Prichard water officials after Chickasaw officials refused to pay a $24,000 water bill."},{"_id":"UDJJOA52U5DU5AN7BIM7LQOAGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994616},"type":"text","content":"“They can’t charge us with theft of services when they’ve done the same thing,” Uptagraft said."},{"_id":"OVPYC5G37FD2TJS6NJMP3HRIAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994617},"type":"text","content":"He also pointed to a recent fine issued to the city by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management over an open burn of trash. Following a citizen complaint, state regulators said they found city workers had conducted <a href=\"https://mynbc15.com/newsletter-daily/city-of-chickasaw-faces-fine-for-burning-waste-on-city-property\">an open burn</a> of “among other things, tire, appliances, electronics and garbage on the Lagoon Road property.” ADEM fined the city $5,000 over the incident."},{"_id":"CFA42Y2K7BDX3O5UN45PGLY2QM","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994618},"type":"text","content":"“ADEM got onto them and fined them,” Uptagraft said. “So they go after us, but do they think they’re above the law?”"},{"_id":"UNNTIQGIPFC4VECZLLXSHNY2NY","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994619},"type":"text","content":"<b>‘I wouldn’t plead guilty’</b>"},{"_id":"NGPOUSTHCNBHNJFLXDNUZ4OV4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994620},"type":"text","content":"Barbara Lowell was 44 years old when she broke her neck swimming at Orange Beach. Since then, she said, she’s been living on a fixed income, using the Social Security Disability checks of a few hundred dollars she receives each month to meet her basic needs."},{"_id":"JNRTPKQS4JA4XN5OLVIQGE5ALI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994621},"type":"text","content":"Lowell, a white woman, said she’s always struggled to pay her city utility bill, which includes charges for garbage and sewer, but the real issues began when she missed a couple of months’ payments of around $70."},{"_id":"RKOYCVJOGFDWNIJM5LEBP4VKJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994622},"type":"text","content":"“They don’t take partial payments, so you have to pay in full,” she said. “And I just couldn’t do that.”"},{"_id":"C7SGX4WN5ZA47PYD7QKX5IGYQY","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994623},"type":"text","content":"Following Lowell’s missed payments, either city officials or garbage workers took her trash can, leaving the resident with nowhere to place her garbage. Lowell said that she soon received a notice to appear in criminal court, where she said she was advised to plead guilty in order to receive a payment plan. Lowell refused."},{"_id":"RC2XMK26YJBMJBG3ZA32MQQHXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994624},"type":"text","content":"“They wouldn’t work out a plan or anything because I wouldn’t plead guilty,” she said."},{"_id":"VP2ESJARU5DBHFGOYZVWYEITFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994625},"type":"text","content":"In the case of Valley, which was also issuing criminal charges for unpaid trash fees, impacted residents filed a class action lawsuit against the city and its garbage contractor. Plaintiffs alleged that the criminalization of unpaid garbage bills was effectively a racket, with the local government acting as the enforcer of a private company’s interest."},{"_id":"QQHWT2GZZBAS3JY5IXECHSOZJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994626},"type":"text","content":"In December 2023, Trump-appointed federal District Court Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. dismissed that claim, calling citizens’ arrest and jailing “very disturbing” but ruling that the suit was ripe to be dismissed because Amwaste, the garbage company in question, and the city had not “reached an understanding” to jointly deprive residents of their rights. The case is currently on appeal."},{"_id":"JWOJAA2575DL5OCGPK5WF6I3JU","additional_properties":{"_id":1727721994627},"type":"text","content":"It’s not clear what role, if any, the private company contracted to provide Chickasaw’s trash services has played in that city’s criminalization of unpaid garbage fees. 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It aims to connect HBCUs with federal and private resources and kicked off the same day that Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, sat for an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists to answer questions about her work for the Black community."},{"_id":"IBG23LXC5FHK5E77P2IS2XHXPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1727100606323},"type":"text","content":"The interview took place in Philadelphia as <a href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/wide-variations-pennsylvania-presidential-polls/\">multiple political polls of Pennsylvanians</a> show Harris either leading or tied with former President Donald Trump in the swing state."},{"_id":"CR24QCEZTVCEXJYHVRRNX7PCNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727100606324},"type":"text","content":"Since entering the White House in 2021, the Biden-Harris administration has touted its support of HBCUs, highlighting that Harris is an alumna of Howard University, an HBCU in Washington, D.C. Trump has also boasted about the funding he gave HBCUs as president, claiming that he “<a href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/oct/27/donald-trump/trumps-exaggerated-claim-he-saved-hbcus-2019-fundi/\">saved HBCUs</a>” by signing the FUTURE Act, which renewed $85 million in federal funding for these institutions annually without needing congressional approval. He directed scholarship and research funding to HBCUs as well."},{"_id":"R7JJZNPKGVADZDHZULGF2R4UGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727100606325},"type":"text","content":"Trump’s claims that he saved HBCUs have been called “exaggerated” by PolitiFact and “offensive” by an HBCU leader. His administration’s investments in these colleges have <a href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/14/harris-trump-hbcu-support-00178626\">not outpaced the Biden-Harris administration’s</a>. 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In cases like this, it is vital to involve the parents, family and wider community, he said."},{"_id":"CFNWUHD2GZA3LOPAAD5VNDUT6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056906},"type":"text","content":"When he first met with the student, “there wasn’t enough of a support network around her,” said Waters, who was only at the school occasionally, running workshops once or twice a month."},{"_id":"QD2DQFJZONE4LFCXKGBH4LI7PA","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056907},"type":"text","content":"Waters took on the role of unofficial counselor, “trying to encourage her to look for her passion, to find something that she could make a difference with,” he said."},{"_id":"XRMUG7OADBEGNEMKDJEPQUTOKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056908},"type":"text","content":"“It was kind of tragic,” said Waters. The most compassionate and empathetic kids most often get stuck in a doom spiral because they want to help so much that they forget to take care of themselves, he explained."},{"_id":"7626MQTDEVHPFHHFD62EGCSSJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056909},"type":"text","content":"But students must be encouraged not to give up. “While it’s incredibly tempting, it’s not the answer,” he said. “We need people who have those strong feelings about the climate crisis to fight for what is right and what is good, because you care.”"},{"_id":"VJFY6H5A6RCGZLXLBIK32B4YAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056910},"type":"text","content":"Waters was eventually able to help the student start a letter writing campaign aimed at the parents and wider community around her school to try and raise funds for solar panels to power the school."},{"_id":"M4TAPNG5I5ALLGI5SYMNU264NE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056911},"type":"text","content":"“She thought it was just a small thing, but to have that focus, to look towards, it gave her purpose,” said Waters."},{"_id":"MRYGL63COFETJMTEZH5AT4XITM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056912},"type":"text","content":"<b>A Gen Z board of advisors</b>"},{"_id":"GZVZHRXWK5EEHPVO2CEV2M5KPM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056913},"type":"text","content":"The challenges educators face in helping students cope with climate change, intellectually and emotionally, are equalled, if not surpassed, by the challenges confronting parents. Sarah Newman, founder and executive director of the Climate Mental Health Network, an organization devoted to normalizing conversations about climate anxiety, is creating guides that help parents talk to their kids about climate."},{"_id":"6TSC2SGZ3NG6BGM5RLUARLPZ74","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056914},"type":"text","content":"In support of that work, Newman created a board of advisors made up entirely of Gen Z members—people born between 1997 and 2012. Who better to help direct programing than the people they are aiming to support?"},{"_id":"YS6J72IINBBCHP3QM3FIB5XO3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056915},"type":"text","content":"For now, the advisory board has been busy at work reviewing and giving input on resources for parents and teachers, helping create the guides fostering dialogue on the climate crisis between kids and parents."},{"_id":"HJ7JJHKQ2VDNTDYNZ4LZZPAKFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056916},"type":"text","content":"The guides explain, said Newman, “that having climate emotions is a normal response to the climate crisis, to not be dismissive of what kids are going through, but to not be Pollyanna, either.” One resource, “The ABC’s and L’s of Talking Climate with Kids,” created by van Susteren, walks parents through tailoring a climate conversation with their children as individuals, starting with giving age appropriate information, tailoring the content to a child’s typical behavior (are they a quiet bookish animal lover who would gravitate towards knowledge of endangered species, or an athletic extrovert who might be more interested in learning how bad air quality makes it harder to play outside?). And finally keep in mind the conditions in which a child is growing up."},{"_id":"WG22HIBD6BAP5DQAP7VAC2AHCE","additional_properties":{"_id":"YPZH7BWM6RGIFKG4QCCWJT5IPY"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Survey: Teens don’t get support they need, despite what parents think","url":"https://www.ajc.com/pulse/survey-teens-dont-get-support-they-need-despite-what-parents-think/7MHIWLKAFNCHPAK45RPKMTREHE/"},{"_id":"5UK7N5ZKC5G6BC5PDS7QTRRTCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056917},"type":"text","content":"A conversation with a child whose house burnt down in a wildfire would need a different approach than a climate talk with a kid who has only ever seen the effects of climate change on TV. All this, in van Susteren’s guide, should be buffered by the three Ls: Listen to your child, learn for yourself before you try to teach them, and leverage your lessons into meaningful climate action."},{"_id":"GQ3F756Z3JBTRLCJQOCUAXBAJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056918},"type":"text","content":"Giving kids realistic, but not hopeless information on climate, and respecting their feelings can go a long way in alleviating the psychological trauma associated with climate change, van Susteren says."},{"_id":"P6QBHQGMDBBWJDCKRBCUK2B3QE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056919},"type":"text","content":"<b>Climate change as child abuse</b>"},{"_id":"HI5VOH4H7ZEYVCJGLYAB6RWY34","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056920},"type":"text","content":"Caroline Hickman has spent the last 20 years studying the effects of climate change on people’s mental health, first as a practicing psychotherapist, and for the last decade as a senior lecturer and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bath in the U.K. researching children’s and young adults’ relationships to climate change and their feelings about nature and the broader ecological crisis."},{"_id":"B5XUCHSA5ZCB7NWCNUBSUBL7SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056921},"type":"text","content":"Since narrowing her focus to kids and young people, she has begun to compare climate change to child abuse. “I realized that the young people … were talking to me in the same way as young people who’d been abused in childhood,” said Hickman. They were saying “the people who were supposed to protect me hurt me, and at the same time, they told me that they loved me, and that really messes with your brain.”"},{"_id":"FQEN2DFJMND2XGIXHFXOWCGYKU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056922},"type":"text","content":"Based on her work, Hickman thinks that for at least the last 20 years, climate change has had such a significant impact on children’s perception of the world, and that it has been an adverse childhood event for the entire generation. Hickman remembers a few years ago, a 10-year-old boy she was interviewing summed it up perfectly. “‘You, Caroline, grew up thinking polar bears would be there forever.’ He said, ‘I’ve grown up knowing they will go extinct,’” said Hickman."},{"_id":"AIANHPTCXFGPPCXKG5TSTNFR7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056923},"type":"text","content":"Parents often underestimate how much their children are concerned about climate change, especially for middle school age kids and younger. Often before Hickman interviewed the kids, parents would say, “Oh, I don’t think he worries about climate change at all,” said Hickman. But that was rarely the case. When asked about how long they have been worrying about climate change, “you’re always going to get an answer like, oh, three years, four years, five years, since we did it in geography or science at school,” Hickman said."},{"_id":"VXVIRYETCFCSXF2X3ESXTXT3W4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056924},"type":"text","content":"“They don’t necessarily talk about it, but it’s not rocket science why they don’t talk about it,” said Hickman. Kids are often dismissed and ignored when they try to talk about climate change, said Hickman. “So they take their lead from [adults]. If you ask, they’ll tell you, but if you don’t ask, they’ll often think it’s taboo, or they shouldn’t ask, or they don’t want to upset their parents.”"},{"_id":"RA2CRBUTEJA7JLP3LLU2AJBV24","additional_properties":{"_id":"JJIVU3ACSBFCXPZXGSZVDUKJQE"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Practical help for anxious and worried parents","url":"https://www.ajc.com/life/practical-help-for-anxious-and-worried-parents/MZ2QSUOERVDPNHEI3LFZNW66ZI/"},{"_id":"XEJF4WZBTNFCFBZLJRCQXXQTK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056925},"type":"text","content":"Much of the current data on regional variation in youth response to climate change comes from Hickman’s 2021 paper in the Lancet: “Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey.”"},{"_id":"H6H4MTFNLJGX5M7GS5YP5TZX4Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056926},"type":"text","content":"The study was based on a survey of 10,000 young people, aged 16-25, in 10 countries. Participants completed a survey which covered topics like climate-related worry, functional impact of climate change and climate-related emotions."},{"_id":"EMBYIR5ITNFHTJ65NSGJKRL6RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056927},"type":"text","content":"Of the 14 distinct emotions included in the survey, fear (67.3 percent) and sadness (66.7 percent) were the two most common feelings associated with climate change expressed by respondents. On the flip side, only 30.9 percent, said they felt optimistic about climate change, and even fewer still, only 29 percent globally, said they felt indifferent."},{"_id":"TQ5CLUOLG5G3PIL4QZWB55B4LY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056928},"type":"text","content":"While the breakdown of emotional responses is important data to have, Hickman found the regional variation between responses, especially between the cognitive and emotional responses, more significant."},{"_id":"M3H3HJC7PFE7ZGGKXDZFWLIBOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056929},"type":"text","content":"In terms of climate change’s impact on children’s ability to eat, sleep and go to school, there was an enormous variation between the Global North and South. While 74 percent of respondents in the Philippines and 74 percent in India said climate change had impacted their daily lives, only 26 percent of respondents in the United States and 28 percent in the United Kingdom placed themselves in that same direct-impact category."},{"_id":"VTFZX43DV5BJVHPQN7ZR4GW7RU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056930},"type":"text","content":"But even that provides only a partial window into the impact of climate on children’s emotions globally, three-quarters of whom responded in the survey that the future was frightening. “So this is when we talk about the impact of climate change, climate anxiety on the emotions, and the cognition,” Hickman said. “Not facing the heat, the wildfires, the drowning does not protect you from the mental health impact.”"},{"_id":"4UH2UBP47BE4DMJIYGTUML6FHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056931},"type":"text","content":"In other words, the perceived future is more important to mental health than the current local climate impacts, she said. What matters is the future children can imagine for themselves."},{"_id":"CHXUKQR4VRDHZPCUD4OKDNHYJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056932},"type":"text","content":"Even in places that have so far been sheltered from the worst, she said, people are left asking, “‘Will I have children? Will I go to study? Will I go to college? What sort of future life am I going to be able to have? What kind of world will I be living in?’ People don’t notice the consequences of the cognitive impact, because they focus on the emotion.”"},{"_id":"XMCM75HPIJES7NU6WZWNBMH5UI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056933},"type":"text","content":"<b>Keep talking about climate</b>"},{"_id":"KUGQDOPFW5D4NKT3WU4DD7I6MM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056934},"type":"text","content":"For some parents, a little gentle guidance is enough to start having meaningful climate conversations, but for others, especially if they are wrestling with their own climate anxiety, having another person to talk to may be essential."},{"_id":"PZGRSTZFCBFMBEIWNAQPGML5LY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056935},"type":"text","content":"Teddy Kellam and Kristan Childs are co-facilitators of the parents group at the Climate Emotional Resilience Institute, based in Boulder, Colorado. They have their own project creating resources for parents struggling to raise kids in a world on fire."},{"_id":"BGTRLBVW7JDMPD4ZU5LKGQLYNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056936},"type":"text","content":"The most important thing, they say, is just to be willing to keep talking to your kids about climate and their feelings."},{"_id":"JQVAPE236FDXHKOPJZOU27PD6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056937},"type":"text","content":"“In many cases, parenting is vastly under supported… and it’s important to know that you’re not going to do it perfectly, and these conversations are not a one and done,” said Kellam. “It’s a really beautiful road, if the world’s crises can draw us into closer connection with our kids, but again, that means we’re really doing a lot of our own work to make that possible.”"},{"_id":"GCFCUSRUR5E2DHE4P4G52PRND4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056938},"type":"text","content":"Kellam is not only a therapist with the Climate Psychology Alliance North America, but also a mother of three. She knows that in the endless chaos of trying to balance soccer practice, play rehearsal, evening meetings and unexpected stomach aches, self care is often the lowest priority."},{"_id":"JJSWYBQGARHYZFLDHFJOINSPCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056939},"type":"text","content":"“I believe in a lot of grace for parents and a lot of self forgiveness, a lot of compassion. And I also believe that fostering connection with our kids is one of the most important things we can do, if we can keep that channel open, and we can be the soft place to land that is an incredible resource for our kids, and it’s also a huge basis for resilience building,” said Kellam."},{"_id":"YUNOZVUBW5BGFOKIFXCPJMSERE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056940},"type":"text","content":"<b>Life after Held v. 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Montana. “I would feel this immense guilt every time I put on clothes and washed them, because I knew I was putting micro plastics into the waterways every single time I washed my clothes that I had thrifted because I didn’t want to buy new,” she said, getting choked up just remembering."},{"_id":"KPLZSQQKOJETPLLOP3BU6JEWMY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056944},"type":"text","content":"Having struggled through those emotions as a teenager, Vesovich now feels called to help the next generation find their way through. “I know that I need to be a teacher, because there is nowhere else that you can have such an impact on the youth,” she said. “To be an adolescent is already impossible, and then add the end of the world on top of it… How are they going to want to be the leaders of tomorrow when they feel like there’s no tomorrow?”"},{"_id":"ZWLMQK435JA5RJ4A666BDLBNAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056945},"type":"text","content":"The only medicine Vesovich found for her climate despair was direct action and activism."},{"_id":"WU34KK5T6FEQBKWNAXC2IUOQME","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056946},"type":"text","content":"“It is my medicine,” she said, “and I think it is this earth’s medicine.”"},{"_id":"UGJODZENTVHMXMWAJ45ZXYM24Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"HIKHKXKRDVCY5FMFX6YSQWRJBE"},"type":"divider"},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"41cd05620f4a2803ded8b4b76b6ed141a5e4e0aba7ea8776ec432cf3fe055a97"},"caption":"","source":{"system":"photo center","name":"AJC","edit_url":"","source_type":"staff","additional_properties":{"editor":"photo center"}},"taxonomy":{"associated_tasks":[]},"type":"image","distributor":{"mode":"reference","reference_id":"8aec2b8c-455c-4816-903d-79fc8fdf8019"},"version":"0.10.9","url":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png","licensable":false,"credits":{"affiliation":[{"name":"contributed","type":"author"}],"by":[{"name":"contributed","type":"author","byline":"contributed"}]},"subtitle":"Inside Climate News logo","width":1426,"creditIPTC":"contributed","_id":"BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI","additional_properties":{"fullSizeResizeUrl":"/resizer/fq7uWUnilczoxop_YgC6ZDecuQ0=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png","keywords":[],"proxyUrl":"/resizer/fq7uWUnilczoxop_YgC6ZDecuQ0=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png","originalUrl":"https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ajc/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png","published":true,"resizeUrl":"/resizer/fq7uWUnilczoxop_YgC6ZDecuQ0=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png","ingestionMethod":"manual","thumbnailResizeUrl":"/resizer/1-N3OWJPD-og4Ww3qoBH7nIuNuo=/300x0/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-ajc/public/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png","version":0,"originalName":"Inside Climate News logo.png","mime_type":"image/png","restricted":false,"template_id":594,"galleries":[],"_id":"SALXGJOLJBG4RLMHJENWWBONBU"},"created_date":"2022-10-18T22:30:55Z","last_updated_date":"2022-10-18T22:30:55Z","height":1426,"image_type":"photograph","resized_obj":{"src":"https://www.ajc.com/resizer/v2/BE7T7OWRZVDZFB272BMBHSPXGI.png?auth=41cd05620f4a2803ded8b4b76b6ed141a5e4e0aba7ea8776ec432cf3fe055a97&width=1260&height=840&smart=true"}},{"_id":"B23NV3TKRJB4DCV27467TPIY2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056949},"type":"text","content":"MEET OUR PARTNER"},{"_id":"TMI2GUYYAREQBAK57A5WPDHBZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726761056950},"type":"text","content":"This article comes from our partner <a href=\"https://insideclimatenews.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Climate News</a>, the Pulitzer prize-winning nonprofit, independent news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. 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It also found a lethal combination of painkillers, including the dangerous opioid fentanyl. Miller had no history of drug use, the medical records state; her family has no idea how she obtained them or what was going through her mind — whether she was trying to quell the pain, complete the abortion or end her life. 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Amber Thurman, 28, languished in a suburban Atlanta hospital for 20 hours before doctors performed a D&C to treat sepsis that resulted from an incomplete abortion. It was too late. “This young mother should be alive, raising her son and pursuing her dream of attending nursing school,” Vice President Kamala Harris said of Thurman on Tuesday. “This is exactly what we feared when Roe was struck down.”"},{"_id":"VSKM2TFOV5GFVM7EMTZMCUAAJA","additional_properties":{"_id":"D2FGEHB4U5GDDDSO4AHHCJQUSI"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"OPINION: Georgia’s abortion law was not responsible for young mom’s death","url":"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/georgias-abortion-law-was-not-responsible-for-young-moms-death/INK3UK22EFE4NEZHZFC5IRTVSQ/"},{"_id":"YJDCHKMDP5AYVDGW7TJNVA7NDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510620},"type":"text","content":"There are almost certainly other deaths related to abortion access. Georgia’s committee, tasked with examining pregnancy-related deaths to improve maternal health, has only reviewed cases through fall 2022. Such a lag is common in these committees, which are set up in each state; most others have not even gotten that far."},{"_id":"4BYJRZH3WRB65FJU4AOMGPHRYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510621},"type":"text","content":"The details of their reviews are not shared with the public, but ProPublica obtained the Georgia committee’s summary report of Miller’s death. ProPublica also reviewed death records and Miller’s autopsy and spoke to her family."},{"_id":"OTHWTVXWDBEL5D5RWGLH5TS55A","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510622},"type":"text","content":"Her case adds to mounting evidence that exceptions to abortion bans do not, as billed, protect the “life of the mother.” Harrowing stories about denied care have been at the center of the upcoming presidential election, during which the right to abortion is on the ballot in 10 states. ProPublica’s new reporting makes clear, for the first time, that in the wake of bans, women are losing their lives in ways that experts have deemed preventable."},{"_id":"3JVCXPFWSBEMLG4E7QO44V6XYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510623},"type":"text","content":"It also underscores the reality that abortion bans have not actually led to a decrease in abortions. But for people like Miller, they have increased the degree of difficulty and risk."},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"copyright":"Rita Harper","address":{"locality":"Atlanta","region":"GA"},"auth":{"1":"853c92835016443daf55e7749c7fbdec929da0c73bb6183553b8235847cb8db3"},"caption":"Christian Cardenas and Alex Cardenas near their home in Atlanta, GA. Candi Shavon Miller who passed away from complications of abortion in the year of 2022. September 16th, 2024. 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She had a soft spot for stray cats, nurtured a garden and was known to break into dance at the sound of old school funk like the Commodores. At 4 foot 9, she was a “firecracker,” her family said — quick to stand up for those she loved. That included her three kids, who range in age from 5 to 16."},{"_id":"FVT2AF4FERFH3MZ6UQKTYX67PU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510626},"type":"text","content":"But about eight years ago, she was diagnosed with lupus, an autoimmune disease in which the body attacks healthy tissue, her sister said. Symptoms include extreme fatigue; painful, swollen joints; heart complications; and kidney disease."},{"_id":"5TLGL72ZABGWRPWF67RXUWJB24","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510627},"type":"text","content":"Miller experienced flare-ups of debilitating pain for which she had to seek radiation treatments. She often wasn’t able to stand for long periods and her hair fell out. 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Those conditions, layered on top of her lupus, can be dangerously exacerbated by pregnancy and are highly unpredictable, during both the pregnancy and the aftermath, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the <a href=\"https://www.smfm.org/publications#/462\">Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine</a>. Patients with those conditions are also more likely to have a pregnancy that ends in miscarriage or premature birth and are more likely to need a cesarean section, a major surgery that is especially hard for patients with diabetes to recover from."},{"_id":"DTMTQ5EH4FDWTNU2FUX4QVVOYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510631},"type":"text","content":"With support, some patients can remain stable and have healthy pregnancies, though the experience can be physically taxing and painful. In the worst cases, pregnancy with lupus can lead to high blood pressure that can quickly progress to seizures, kidney and liver dysfunction and, ultimately, death. Studies have found the maternal death rate for women with lupus is <a href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2542836/#:~:text=In%20the%20Hopkins%20Lupus%20Cohort,than%20the%20general%20SLE%20population.\">20-fold higher than for those without lupus</a>. The chance of relapses and flare-ups are also high in the postpartum period."},{"_id":"T7BQ7ETUPJE25DGKXLK2VRS66E","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510632},"type":"text","content":"Each patient’s situation is different and needs careful evaluation of their particular health risks, including discussion of the option to end the pregnancy, said Dr. Sarah Horvath, an OB-GYN representing ACOG."},{"_id":"I7DQSQG74BDXFBE6K5MQ4JHJMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510633},"type":"text","content":"Politicians who support abortion bans often point to their exceptions, which they say protect “the life of the mother.” During last week’s debate, former President Donald Trump called them “very important.”"},{"_id":"FMDXS7TQ75HW3N752QVU3R76P4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510634},"type":"text","content":"But the anti-abortion groups that drafted the bans wrote the exceptions to be as narrow as possible and persuaded lawmakers to impose steep criminal penalties, fearing doctors might stretch definitions to create loopholes."},{"_id":"D5QDTRTVARCHZGDMJ6JOZ4SZNQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"5HYXP2TAVFDEBGHZARRNRSWMFM"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"OPINION: Georgia’s abortion law left these women in shambles","url":"https://www.ajc.com/politics/patricia-murphy-georgias-abortion-law-left-these-women-in-shambles/WOQGQ6ZEKVGY3MKI3W6LQUSEL4/"},{"_id":"2T4SBUWILVBBXLGZV3SORAO3YI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510635},"type":"text","content":"The exceptions are limited to acute emergencies, usually defined as when “necessary in order to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or the substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function.” They also specifically prohibit mental health reasons from counting as health emergencies, even if a pregnant woman says she is thinking about harming herself. In Georgia, violating the law can cost doctors their license and subject them to prison terms of up to 10 years."},{"_id":"DHOAFFQ435HT7A62NTIUGG6SZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510636},"type":"text","content":"The laws typically don’t include any leeway for intervening earlier to treat patients with broader health risks that could make pregnancy more dangerous, such as lupus."},{"_id":"X4UC2NILTZGM7LTDQ4QTB2CTAM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510637},"type":"text","content":"ProPublica surveyed dozens of doctors in nine states with abortion bans. None of their hospitals approve abortions for women with high-risk complications like lupus or diabetes unless the patient is already deteriorating and the issue is urgent."},{"_id":"QR7LOQLPNNDIRLZVAG3TT644NI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510638},"type":"text","content":"Horvath regularly sees patients with complications from those conditions in Pennsylvania because they can’t get care in their own state. Often, the delay in figuring out where to go means their pregnancy is further along — and, as a result, their conditions have become more dangerous. They show up to outpatient clinics already displaying signs of trouble, Horvath said, and immediately have to be sent to the hospital where there’s an operating room and a blood bank."},{"_id":"IIMX6K3QRRESHMCSOEASBIP56I","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510639},"type":"text","content":"It often takes time for patients and their providers to coordinate care in other states because there is so much confusion about the laws."},{"_id":"FAZ3SLS2TZDPBGI4GFMROA3DFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510640},"type":"text","content":"“People who are really suffering in these pregnancies really don’t know where to go,” Horvath said. “Or if they even can.”"},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"copyright":"Rita Harper","address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"05e8c65262331c5416ad2002223650ee835e9d132b763429c9c1e70db13e22c5"},"caption":"Alex Cardenas near his home in Atlanta, GA. He holds his engagement ring for his partner Shavon Miller. 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Patients contact a doctor in Europe who sends them pills from a supplier in India. According to one researcher, <a href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/health/abortion-pills.html\">Aid Access serves about 7,000 patients a month</a> in the U.S., nearly 90% of them in states with abortion bans or severe restrictions. Its founder, Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, said it was clear the abortion pill did not cause her death."},{"_id":"E7EUNEFVERARHLMEOQN2KFVSVQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510645},"type":"text","content":"The committee also did not believe Miller’s death was caused by the abortion medication. Her autopsy found extremely high doses of diphenhydramine (the main ingredient in Benadryl) and acetaminophen (what’s found in Tylenol) in Miller’s system, along with the fentanyl. Considering the quantity of drugs and the timing of her death, the committee also did not suspect the abortion pills themselves were in any way tainted."},{"_id":"QEIPHR3LUJGB3K3POHG24HGI5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510646},"type":"text","content":"Self-managing abortions at home has skyrocketed since the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, because of access to pills that can be ordered online, researchers say."},{"_id":"MGQZQTWAEJF4DF4ZXWWUZW2OCU","additional_properties":{"_id":"ZBXPB3NMONHJFGLWT557CIK554"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Abortion remains a touchstone issue in the presidential race","url":"https://www.ajc.com/politics/abortion-remains-a-touchstone-issue-in-the-presidential-race/PWCIUPRA2NBKDAEYRTRW56L5ZU/"},{"_id":"JR6EGE2HEZELPHIAT6P4NCQVRM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510647},"type":"text","content":"Major studies, the Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization have found <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-pills-safety-questions-answered\">abortion pills to be more than 90% effective when taken correctly</a> and in the first trimester. Deaths due to abortion pills are exceedingly rare. Complications can develop if some fetal tissue remains in the uterus, where it can lead to sepsis, a grave infection. Patients are supposed to follow up with a doctor to make sure the abortion has fully completed and go to the hospital if bleeding heavily or exhibiting other symptoms."},{"_id":"YLASPTNXGZGVXDV3LFGXYKL37I","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510648},"type":"text","content":"Miller’s family does not know how far along her pregnancy was when she took the abortion pills."},{"_id":"TMRUD36T7VB75KIED5J2UNMQZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510649},"type":"text","content":"But soon enough, she was in excruciating pain."},{"_id":"YGFHU37IV5FJJKAT2WSTNU3IGQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726671510650},"type":"text","content":"And that’s how she remained, for days, until she took the potent drug mixture. 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Communications staff from the hospital did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Georgia’s Department of Public Health, which oversees the state maternal mortality review committee, said it cannot comment on ProPublica’s reporting because the committee’s cases are confidential and protected by federal law."},{"_id":"CNTMRLTGGZEWFCXZTT6F3TXRDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"WB5UVIMEPJEEVONZ2UNEZM2H5I"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Study: Georgia maternal mortality increase among five worst in nation","url":"https://www.ajc.com/news/health-news/study-georgia-maternal-mortality-increase-among-five-worst-in-nation/ONO4J5UUABCTBBSKL27DUNGXPQ/"},{"_id":"MFZHBUYEPNB43GGSBT2TOTVKB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020641},"type":"text","content":"The availability of D&Cs for both abortions and routine miscarriage care helped save lives after the 1973 Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. 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Those whose pregnancies weren’t even viable have been told <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/25/1171851775/oklahoma-woman-abortion-ban-study-shows-confusion-at-hospitals\">they could return when they were “crashing.”</a>"},{"_id":"OFDPZ75EP5D5NNSPMW7HXBXTSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726586507557},"type":"text","content":"Such stories have been at the center of the upcoming presidential election, during which the right to abortion is on the ballot in 10 states."},{"_id":"ZIEMZMLIAZH4JF3OVE7MRBT3QM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020644},"type":"text","content":"But Republican legislators have <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-ban-exceptions-trigger-laws-health-risks\">rejected small efforts</a> to expand and clarify health exceptions — even in Georgia, which has one of the nation’s highest rates of maternal mortality and where Black women are three times more likely to <a href=\"https://news.emory.edu/stories/2023/11/hs_maternal_health_symposium_29_11_2023/story.html\">die from pregnancy-related complications</a> than white women."},{"owner":{"id":"ajc"},"workflow":{"status_code":4},"auth":{"1":"a610dfb6117e13a824af2036f47e6275984e24d9d138d29bdde6c17fe03347c7"},"caption":"Surrounded by supporters of the bill, including Sen. 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She scheduled a D&C in North Carolina, where abortion at that stage was still legal, and on Aug. 13 woke up at 4 a.m. to make the journey with her best friend."},{"_id":"6P5IYHWV7ZBH7BTGXCNEKQZND4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020652},"type":"text","content":"On their drive, they hit standstill traffic, Baker said. The clinic couldn’t hold Thurman’s spot longer than 15 minutes — it was inundated with women from other states where bans had taken effect. Instead, a clinic employee offered Thurman a two-pill abortion regimen approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, mifepristone and misoprostol. Her pregnancy was well within the standard of care for that treatment."},{"_id":"2NOZIZAFLJGMVMOHKD5Q6ESBS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020653},"type":"text","content":"Getting to the clinic had required scheduling a day off from work, finding a babysitter, making up an excuse to borrow a relative’s car and walking through a crowd of anti-abortion protesters. 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Out of nearly 6 million women who’ve taken mifepristone in the U.S. since 2000, <a href=\"https://www.fda.gov/media/164331/download?attachment\">32 deaths were reported to the FDA</a> through 2022, regardless of whether the drug played a role. Of those, 11 patients developed sepsis. Most of the remaining cases involved intentional and accidental drug overdoses, suicide, homicide and ruptured ectopic pregnancies."},{"_id":"E2SUQAFWEFBSNIPKZVLWTX5SGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020656},"type":"text","content":"Baker and Thurman spoke every day that week. At first, there was only cramping, which Thurman expected. But days after she took the second pill, the pain increased and blood was soaking through more than one pad per hour. If she had lived nearby, the clinic in North Carolina would have performed a D&C for free as soon as she followed up, the executive director told ProPublica. But Thurman was four hours away."},{"_id":"NJR22WMWVFD6XOWU5GF22ZUA4A","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020657},"type":"text","content":"On the evening of Aug. 18, Thurman vomited blood and passed out at home, according to 911 call logs. Her boyfriend called for an ambulance. Thurman arrived at Piedmont Henry Hospital in Stockbridge at 6:51 p.m."},{"_id":"AOMGH32TMFFUXKD2AOKJY67LRI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020658},"type":"text","content":"ProPublica obtained the summary narrative of Thurman’s hospital stay provided to the maternal mortality review committee, as well as the group’s findings. The narrative is based on Thurman’s medical records, with identifying information removed. The committee does not interview doctors involved with the case or ask hospitals to respond to its findings. 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One of the hospital network’s <a href=\"https://www.piedmontwomenshealthcare.com/patient-education//dilation-and-curettage-dc-445\">own practices</a> describes a D&C as a “fairly common, minor surgical procedure” to be used after a miscarriage to remove fetal tissue."},{"_id":"XLJC6A4J6RBPHMKGFX3IDYE2EA","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020662},"type":"text","content":"After assessing her at 9:38 p.m., doctors started Thurman on antibiotics and an IV drip, the summary said. The OB-GYN noted the possibility of doing a D&C the next day."},{"_id":"U7UJJN6Y4FB2HER5EBQZQW7CDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020663},"type":"text","content":"But that didn’t happen the following morning, even when an OB diagnosed “acute severe sepsis.” By 5:14 a.m., Thurman was breathing rapidly and at risk of bleeding out, according to her vital signs. Even five liters of IV fluid had not moved her blood pressure out of the danger zone. 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But it still didn’t happen. Two hours later, lab work indicated her organs were failing, according to experts who read her vital signs."},{"_id":"AGID4BZOUVDFDEEJWVJ53HYVNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020669},"type":"text","content":"At 12:05 p.m., more than 17 hours after Thurman had arrived, a doctor who specializes in intensive care notified the OB-GYN that her condition was deteriorating."},{"_id":"S6IO6QYK7JFRDNWDBLKFK2VN2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020670},"type":"text","content":"Thurman was finally taken to an operating room at 2 p.m."},{"_id":"6HQWEWCRFRAOZGMUUQHP36JOSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020671},"type":"text","content":"By then, the situation was so dire that doctors started with open abdominal surgery. They found that her bowel needed to be removed, but it was too risky to operate because not enough blood was flowing to the area — a possible complication from the blood pressure medication, an expert explained to ProPublica. 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Their goal is to collect accurate data and identify the root causes of <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/series/lost-mothers\">America’s increasing maternal mortality rate</a>, then translate those lessons into policy changes. Their findings and recommendations are sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and their states publish an annual report, but their reviews of individual cases are never public."},{"_id":"6AQC2PA5RRH3LFYCRUA24HURGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020678},"type":"text","content":"Georgia’s committee has 32 regular members from a variety of backgrounds, including OB-GYNs, cardiologists, mental health care providers, a medical examiner, health policy experts, community advocates and others. 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How can they be sure a jury with no medical experience would agree that intervening was “necessary”?"},{"_id":"7MIMDJKRNJCUPPR7AHWNABK3NI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020687},"type":"text","content":"ProPublica asked the governor’s office on Friday to respond to cases of denied care, including the two abortion-related deaths, and whether its exceptions were adequate. Spokesperson Garrison Douglas said they were clear and gave doctors the power to act in medical emergencies. He returned to the state’s previous argument, describing ProPublica’s reporting as a “fear-mongering campaign.”"},{"_id":"KZJUA3Q46JDGZL7CJA6JUSFA2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020688},"type":"text","content":"Republican officials across the country have largely rejected calls to provide guidance."},{"_id":"5M6MT6OQHVHQFKLMYASXST5OZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020689},"type":"text","content":"When legislators have tried, <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-ban-exceptions-trigger-laws-health-risks\">anti-abortion groups have blocked them</a>."},{"_id":"GXLIHZI4SZG4HIKRAQOVZFACTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020690},"type":"text","content":"In 2023, a group of Tennessee Republicans was unable to push through <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-lobbyists-oppose-new-life-saving-exceptions-abortion-ban\">a small change to the state’s abortion ban</a>, intended to give doctors greater leeway when intervening for patients facing health complications."},{"_id":"PE26AYZPXBAFHHBJVED7OUVZNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020691},"type":"text","content":"“No one wants to tell their spouse, child or loved one that their life is not important in a medical emergency as you watch them die when they could have been saved,” said Republican Rep. <a href=\"https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/legislatorinfo/member.aspx?district=H30\">Esther Helton-Haynes</a>, a nurse who sponsored the bill."},{"_id":"M7BLNLMCZVDIPCCBOMED3TBTHI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020692},"type":"text","content":"The state’s main anti-abortion lobbyist, Will Brewer, <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-lobbyists-oppose-new-life-saving-exceptions-abortion-ban\">vigorously opposed the change</a>. 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Doctors told ProPublica they have seen <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-doctor-decisions-hospital-committee\">colleagues disregard the standard of care</a> when their patients are at risk of infection and wait to see if a miscarriage completes naturally before offering a D&C."},{"_id":"NZIABNC6BZDCFJMR2WRLZ7FIU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020694},"type":"text","content":"Although no doctor has been prosecuted for violating abortion bans, the possibility looms over every case, they said, particularly outside of well-funded academic institutions that have lawyers promising criminal defense."},{"_id":"DHYBH3YLE5BUTOFJY2LV5FQAKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020695},"type":"text","content":"Doctors in public hospitals and those outside of major metro areas told ProPublica that they are often left scrambling to figure out on a case-by-case basis when they are allowed to provide D&Cs and other abortion procedures. Many fear they are taking on all of the risk alone and would not be backed up by their hospitals if a prosecutor charged them with a crime. At Catholic hospitals, they typically have to transfer patients elsewhere for care."},{"_id":"RT7FD5PVOFHNRA6PEB47CE4YRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020696},"type":"text","content":"When they do try to provide care, it can be a challenge to find other medical staff to participate. A D&C requires an anesthesiologist, nurses, attending physicians and others. Doctors said peers have refused to participate because of their personal views or their fear of being exposed to criminal charges. Georgia law allows medical staff to refuse to participate in abortions."},{"_id":"LRIW6YMQ2FE6NKDBRZWOPFE6QI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726581020697},"type":"text","content":"Thurman’s family members may never learn the exact variables that went into doctors’ calculations. The hospital has not fulfilled their request for her full medical record. 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They also take on the added responsibility of getting their communities to the ballot box."},{"_id":"CJDOFSCFVBGABMBJUPNYDOBHFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039702},"type":"text","content":"Yet Black women in Mississippi are <a href=\"https://nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/final_nwlc_MS_Report.pdf\">the largest group of women in low-wage jobs</a>, face <a href=\"https://nwlc.org/resource/women-in-poverty-state-by-state-2022/\">one of the highest rates of poverty in the country</a> and rank <a href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/state-lawmakers-women-southeast\">among the lowest in elected representation at the statehouse</a>."},{"_id":"O6XXW4VADFA7DJA37P5777T2DU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039703},"type":"text","content":"“I wanted to do something a little bit more strategic and formal that would bring excitement,” Welchlin said. “I just kind of sat with the idea of, ‘What would make people want to come?’”"},{"owner":{"sponsored":false,"id":"ajc"},"address":{},"syndication":{},"auth":{"1":"f979c5f15c25ab1dcfbe04b7212f5a37746d09102d0f73fbb3a7076692235274"},"caption":"Cassandra Welchlin, executive director of the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, emphasizes the role of Black women as catalysts for democracy and community change. 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The organization has <a href=\"https://www.blackwomensroundtable.org/\">programming focused on Black women’s civic participation</a>, including <a href=\"https://www.ncbcp.org/programs/unity/black_youth_vote_-_unity_civic_engagement_and_voter_empowerment_campaign_copy2/\">a “Sistervote” initiative</a>."},{"_id":"3NSICIF3EBDZBJJC4PEGW6VQAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039705},"type":"text","content":"Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, and convener of the national Black Women’s Roundtable programming, credited Welchlin for designing a training theme that not only has the potential to turn out more voters, but could lead to more Black women becoming leaders who run for office. She added that Welchlin is taking their political power “to another level.”"},{"_id":"QOHFMOAVSRFL5AJQZMDHXLRVIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039706},"type":"text","content":"“Having a Cassandra Welchlin in leadership, who’s doing unique things — there could be more Black elected officials in the state of Mississippi, because the demographics are there. But when you talk statewide, it’s not reached its full potential,” she said."},{"_id":"SZYKPRNHLFH45JGIEFMIYGLDLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039707},"type":"text","content":"There are <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/election-2023-mississippi-voter-registration-a4bd134bda9f9063d56952c6f3454706\">about 1.9 million</a> registered voters in Mississippi, where the governor’s office, Senate and House of Representatives are controlled by Republicans. Welchlin’s group estimates that more than 123,000 Black women in the state did not vote in the past three election cycles. The group’s goal is to increase voter participation among these women by 10 percent this November. Black women voters in the counties the group has targeted for boot camps are among those who have voted most infrequently since 2021."},{"_id":"3D6O4O2VMZB23F47SGH6QU3RSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039708},"type":"text","content":"It’s part of why Allytra Perryman, deputy director of the Mississippi State Conference of the NAACP, which has partnered to help host some boot camps, also sees such potential in mobilizing them."},{"_id":"KZLDSBZ2EVCY5NGZSTCVBFB6CU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039709},"type":"text","content":"“When you train a Black woman on how to do anything, you train a community,” she said."},{"_id":"S3PZOJCROFHODM4FRMXVWT5N4M","additional_properties":{"_id":"NAHMCRLYOBBO3PIV757FPXHW2I"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"OPINION: Voting is how we empower our communities","url":"https://www.ajc.com/opinion/opinion-voting-is-how-we-empower-our-communities/PC56IFFPYZG5BGVF2H3PKKUIHA/"},{"_id":"FQPSUZ64JVB2VHHA3WDJXI645A","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039710},"type":"text","content":"On the morning of the boot camp, Velvet Scott seemed to be everywhere."},{"_id":"QXS2H5F33NDWFPM7CGMXEVIUOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039711},"type":"text","content":"As director of civic engagement and voting rights for the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable, she was ready to help roll out attendee tables and chairs; she was there to open boxes and hand materials to roundtable staff. She and Welchlin made sure the check-in table had updated registration lists, lunch was ordered and the child care in a nearby room was set up."},{"_id":"WZC7ES32RJG5XL5V6TB2F2UDFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039712},"type":"text","content":"“Today we’re going to go through, of course, important information, but we’re going to have fun while doing it,” Scott told the women, many already wearing the matching boot camp T-shirts."},{"_id":"3NJCBZJR35CFZH6HM6QKVVMTZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039713},"type":"text","content":"Their meeting space was attached to a church on a hill — New Hope Missionary Baptist Church — nestled along a road filled with so many churches it’s called Church Road. Among the permanent signage adorning the room were Biblical-themed messages of hope: “We will not fail nor be discouraged, till our mission is complete…<i>.</i>”"},{"_id":"4CHH3KYYCVB6BMXHF77YLUT3TA","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039714},"type":"text","content":"“We welcome you today to be energized and to be educated,” said Pamela Helton, a leader within New Hope and the wife of the church pastor, in opening remarks."},{"_id":"YDHJRSZT4RCMDL25YJGTYJOBWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039715},"type":"text","content":"Earlier, Welchlin seemed determined to shake the hands of every person who walked through the doors. For those she knew, she offered a hug. “So glad to see so many beautiful Black women,” she said at one point. “We comin’.”"},{"_id":"YIR2RAL7LRGKRIUSOZTHAHNT2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039716},"type":"text","content":"When Welchlin helped host the first boot camp ahead of last year’ gubernatorial race, her organization did not collect data about the trainings. Anecdotal feedback showed a clear interest in organizing Black women around voter turnout, but the full scope of the programming’s reach in its pilot run is unclear."},{"_id":"VZWL4YHGHFHAJOMIAR5MAKXOBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039717},"type":"text","content":"“We realized that we had a gap,” Welchlin said. “But part of it had to do with capacity on our end to collect that data and do the follow-up.”"},{"_id":"EDE72T2MKZFC3CR3M7QPWRBI6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039718},"type":"text","content":"Scott, who joined the Mississippi Black Women’s Roundtable late last year, has committed to doing things differently. She honed a data mindset while first working in insurance, a job that brought her into the homes of Black and Brown people who increasingly sought her guidance about available social services. 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That’s meant more of a focus on spreadsheets, more surveys and more individual follow-ups to ensure attendees have support afterward."},{"_id":"FZ2XEUT3ZRFLZIWOEOX7MMOTYE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039720},"type":"text","content":"Scott has tweaked the boot camps since they launched in April in order to make them more accessible. She’s made some trainings available on weeknights instead of Saturdays, when people tend to be most busy with family responsibilities. She has sometimes shortened the hours of programming to see if a tighter agenda keeps up engagement. She recently helped organize a virtual training."},{"_id":"YXAKM3W7FRFJ5AJT2OCCQNXE3E","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039721},"type":"text","content":"As a mother to a newly walking toddler, she tries to think about what the attendees might need. She, like Welchlin, feels strongly about onsite child care. (During the Southaven training, Scott stepped away to breastfeed her child.) She ensures that a meal is provided during the trainings, as well as a gift card. The group set aside roughly $50,000 to run the program this election cycle, according to Scott. They’ve been under budget thanks to partnerships with other civic engagement groups."},{"_id":"JRYBWVVB55EVRLMNAPXEYYJHOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039722},"type":"text","content":"Scott believes strongly in the power of Black women organizing their communities."},{"_id":"I2OGSQ7HS5FCPAYWUFSYHYHJTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039723},"type":"text","content":"“We don’t live single-issue lives,” she said. “So to uplift Black women in the room is to say, ‘Hey, I see you. We’re going to work on this together, we’re going to be in community together, and we’re going to be in fellowship together.’”"},{"_id":"GCV4PJS2GVFUNDEOVABQ5UF75A","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039724},"type":"text","content":"Scott also wants to find the balance in her work. She’s tried to move away from an unspoken expectation in community organizing that she must be <i>go-go-go</i>. She doesn’t want to burn out, and she wants to be present with her family."},{"_id":"4HC7UUCWNZEIXODH7ZTTBDPVKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039725},"type":"text","content":"“Rest is resistance,” Scott said, who referenced <a href=\"https://www.akpress.org/rest-is-resistance.html\">research on the topic</a>. “And advocates deserve joy.”"},{"_id":"S6FGIFVJ7NCJXK5JET5LOWHJ5E","additional_properties":{"_id":"TX7CZM2EING5BL5Z5242BBUGDQ"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"Sellers: ‘Everybody thinks Black voters are only in Atlanta’","url":"https://www.ajc.com/politics/sellers-everybody-thinks-black-voters-are-only-in-atlanta/NPRNWOWT7BD2BKTFV7S4SWOLZE/"},{"_id":"GCV4PJS2GVFUNDEOVABQ5UF75A","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039724},"type":"text","content":"When Jessica Orey hears Welchlin’s singing, she perks up. Orey is attending alone, and the music comforts her."},{"_id":"VSL2WNNJVBFKJLBDAGUPLFGUOY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039727},"type":"text","content":"As a young adult, Orey jumped into organizing through a local NAACP chapter. Those meetings also made space for “freedom songs” used at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. It’s why Orey was impressed by its emphasis in Southaven."},{"_id":"RFXK6QRKEZDCRDDOO4EN3BVVT4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039728},"type":"text","content":"“She’s kind of bringing back the old school type-feel of it,” Orey said of Welchlin. “Like, hey, we’re going to sing our way through. This is what’s going to push us to the next level.”"},{"_id":"74GCWDJPGZCILPDVPBO2JRK5WE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039729},"type":"text","content":"Welchlin said her mentor, Hollis Watkins, the late civil rights activist who founded the voting rights organization <a href=\"https://southernecho.org/s/\">Southern Echo</a>, taught her the freedom songs that he once sang at mass organizing meetings."},{"_id":"WHY73SKPCNFI5NM7BAHFEUU4VY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039730},"type":"text","content":"“It’s teaching a new generation about what the meaning of song is, and what these words mean,” she said. “And so it’s a history lesson, while it’s also a spiritual blessing to our souls.”"},{"_id":"E2EK553GTBB6PGV6NFQ5DKGDPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039731},"type":"text","content":"Sheneka Bell is also in the room alone, listening along."},{"_id":"RHZYG2LMCRDEVCN6KOBG2EFF2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039732},"type":"text","content":"At 45, Bell is a longtime voter but has not been active in voter turnout efforts. But politics continues to seep into her life — from the national debate about reproductive rights, to local property rezoning. Last year, Bell joined the local county chapter of the NAACP."},{"_id":"7B53Y3ZCZ5CBTDKN77STTOS2J4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039733},"type":"text","content":"“I have a responsibility to understand what’s going on in my neighborhood and beyond,” she said."},{"_id":"LQLUXRAVCRG5DOAHOCESUDXDJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039734},"type":"text","content":"In some ways, Orey felt compelled to be at the boot camp: Her grandmother is Delores Orey, <a href=\"https://www.wlbt.com/story/24430127/unsung-civil-rights-legend-dies/\">a longtime civil rights activist</a> who worked alongside key leaders of the Civil Rights Movement."},{"_id":"ZCYFORPKIVDMHH7JGNZLDPQVYI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039735},"type":"text","content":"“This is all I know. This is what Big Mama taught us,” said the 36-year-old, referring to her grandmother. “This is what Big Mama pushed for. So if any injustice is around me, it’s like, ‘What would Big Mama do?’ A lot of this stuff is ingrained. It’s a part of my DNA.”"},{"_id":"WQY4HCQWKZA4VILMDYTL7ZVJLY","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039736},"type":"text","content":"After her grandmother died in 2014, Orey stepped back from community organizing. But she wants to get involved again, and she felt like the boot camp was a first step. Orey has since signed up for roundtable updates and alerts from several civic engagement groups. She recently participated in a GOTV event in Jackson, Mississippi. "},{"_id":"AEDLIVUTLJFKRKHXX4KEA5JL2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039737},"type":"text","content":"“I know it’s time for me as a former advocate,” she said. “I need to get my shoes back in the game. There’s work to be done.”"},{"_id":"F6UGLXLFPREVLMSDMAUEOWLHLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039738},"type":"text","content":"Since the boot camp, Bell has looked into <a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2024/08/national-poll-worker-recruitment-day-surge-voter-registration/\">signing up to be a poll worker</a>. She is open to phone banking, and recently showed her nieces how to check their voter registration statuses."},{"_id":"4WO2FO4WYVDDXD2OHRZB4CPJ2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039739},"type":"text","content":"“I’m new to this space,” she said. “I’ve never done any of this before.”"},{"_id":"ED5UOIDOQFCW3JKXWVFVD6XCRE","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039740},"type":"text","content":"Welchlin is not surprised that women like Orey and Bell are drawn to these endeavors in Mississippi, a state that played a key role in the long fight for universal voting rights. It is home to <a href=\"https://19thnews.org/2024/08/fannie-lou-hamer-mississippians-voting-civil-rights-legacy/\">historic voter registration drives like Freedom Summer, and it is the birthplace of activists like Fannie Lou Hamer</a>."},{"_id":"RPYWGEY5LFCBZLDEZX65ZS3RSM","additional_properties":{"_id":"BKAY6IS4KJHCRPC2Q26KIJC4IM"},"type":"interstitial_link","content":"A Democratic victory hinges on Black voters. Convincing them this time may be harder","url":"https://www.ajc.com/uatl/harris-path-to-the-wh-hinges-on-black-voters-has-she-done-enough-to-convince-them/SWC6YW7BMNAPPBVOUS3FUHGYV4/"},{"_id":"ON6AUU4R7BGWVDUGXI2EJR22Z4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039741},"type":"text","content":"Civic engagement groups say the struggles continue."},{"_id":"LOACDWEXDBA25PSMPRAUVWRR64","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039742},"type":"text","content":"In July, <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-legislative-redistricting-lawsuit-naacp-2113b888f5c5771c15d98efa505033e0\">a federal court ordered Mississippi policymakers to redraw some state legislative maps that they established in 2022</a>, after the court concluded that the maps illegally diluted the political power of Black residents."},{"_id":"DZLCTU7CQFEDTN5DKBM2562X6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039743},"type":"text","content":"Among the areas impacted by the racial gerrymandering is DeSoto County, which includes Southaven, the site of the August boot camp."},{"_id":"Z2PALKKLGFEV5IMZ23VRCWO2PQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039744},"type":"text","content":"Some noted <a href=\"https://www.djournal.com/news/state-news/mississippi-voters-removed-from-active-rolls-offset-new-registrations-leading-up-to-election/article_7979bbba-7761-11ee-9c92-bfb381ac3a6e.html\">a recent state law over the voters rolls</a> and <a href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/1212002542/mississippi-governors-election-ballot-shortages\">technical issues at precincts during last year’s close governor’s race</a>. Some polling precincts in Hinds County, home to the capital city of Jackson, ran out of ballots. Long lines were reported and some people were seen leaving polling locations without voting. <a href=\"https://censusreporter.org/profiles/16000US2836000-jackson-ms/\">More than 80 percent</a> of Jackson residents are Black."},{"_id":"ALYLRBY2RJESJDYYFK4HB3EX7I","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039745},"type":"text","content":"The state also has one of <a href=\"https://apnews.com/article/mississippi-felony-voting-rights-appeals-court-2c0cce8690f2ab18d903d01da79a54db\">the most restrictive disenfranchisement bans in the nation</a>, taking away voting rights from people who are convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes."},{"_id":"37HVU23GOZHDND6S3DZFTSUOGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039746},"type":"text","content":"Welchlin cautioned against ignoring inequity around the ballot box in Mississippi, especially as Republican lawmakers advance voting restrictions around the country. They have increasingly claimed without proof that there is widespread voter fraud, and <a href=\"https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/30/texas-voter-rights-violations-investigation-request/\">such policies often appear in states with large Black and Brown populations</a>."},{"_id":"KTDH2PR5KNGZVDPKRMMWZXBX7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039747},"type":"text","content":"“Mississippi is part of the fabric of the struggles in the South,” Welchlin said. “We have a history, and a muscle, and a foundation in which we have built.”"},{"_id":"EWW3MURDUVHCNCBBMY3JOWI3SA","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039748},"type":"text","content":"As the boot camps in Mississippi wrap up this election cycle, its ripple effect is coming into focus. A state lawmaker recently expressed interest in running a boot camp. At least one organization is now trying to offer similar programming targeting Black men. And the umbrella organization’s Michigan affiliate has reached out about replicating some of boot camp programming."},{"_id":"UD3QOQXIPFHIZIGNJRXIZYQZB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039749},"type":"text","content":"“We know that their data is going to look different, but we’re giving them the template to adjust it the way they need,” she said. “It’s a model, and Michigan is going to be testing it.”"},{"_id":"YRKIDGWINBGQXBS3YKNB25RK6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1726497039750},"type":"text","content":"Welchin has tried to lean into the joy of the work ahead, despite the obvious obstacles. 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