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While abortion clinics diminish, crisis pregnancy centers flourish

By Ramiro Ferrando/For Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | February 19, 2019

Crisis pregnancy centers – which counsel clients against abortion – are flourishing not only in in Illinois, but also nationally.

Database: Tracking Covid-19’s impact on meatpacking workers and industry

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) meat inspectors and graders perform their mission.

Opinion

November elections are a national referendum on climate change

It’s no secret to anyone paying attention that the POTUS is the nation’s science and climate change denier-in-chief. It’s a given undisputed fact at this point. But sometimes behind the scene what government does compared to what the POTUS says are two vastly different things. Four years ago the 2016 Republican Party Platform was crystal clear when it comes to governmental action on climate change:

Rural America

At the nation’s largest student farm organization, a reckoning on race

This article was produced by the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent, nonprofit journalism organization. When Xavier Morgan first enrolled in the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences in 2010, he wasn’t necessarily interested in farming.

From the USDA

Farmers to Families Food Box Program Reaches 75 Million Boxes Delivered

(Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 2020) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Farmers to Families Food Box Program has distributed more than 75 million food boxes in support of American farmers and families affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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SEEDS OF DESPAIR: Isolated, and with limited access to mental-health care, hundreds are dying by suicide.

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While abortion clinics diminish, crisis pregnancy centers flourish

By Ramiro Ferrando/For Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting | February 19, 2019

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