Katie Maxwell

What’s at Stake for School Food-Literacy Programs SNAP-Ed will be terminated in October, adding to federal cuts impacting food literacy and nutrition education in schools.

My takeaway: Educators are committed to continuing to teach food literacy despite massive funding cuts to SNAP-Ed and FoodCorps under the current administration.

“We’re committed to seeing this one through for the children at the center of our work,” said a FoodCorps spokesperson.

Southwest Airlines plane aborts landing to avoid colliding with private jet at Chicago Midway Airport | CNN A Southwest Airlines plane and a private jet that entered the runway without authorization experienced a close call at Chicago Midway International Airport on Tuesday morning, the Federal Aviation Adm...

Chicago Midway is my home airport, and I almost always fly Southwest domestically. This near miss is absolutely terrifying. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...

“It’s Not All Conflict”: Speaking with an Israeli and a Palestinian Working Together to Aid Gaza The founders of Clean Shelter met the day after October 7 in a virtual dialogue group. Now they’re running a humanitarian organization that’s built over 1,000 toilets and shelters for displaced Palest...

I'm excited for my friends and classmates @dukeenvironment.bsky.social working on this project to build toilets and shelters in Gaza. “It’s Not All Conflict”: Speaking with an Israeli and a Palestinian Working Together to Aid Gaza  indyweek.com/news/durham/...

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Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for U.S. farms, businesses U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans.

Farmers slammed. “American farms… supply about about 41 percent of the food aid that the agency sends around the world.” And “hundreds of tons of American-grown wheat stranded in Houston alone.”

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this is a 5 alarm fire alert. This could decimate all the clean energy we worked to pass under Biden.

Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article) Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.

@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling.

It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks.

Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused.
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