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"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) faced discontinuation of support for legacy Lotus Notes databases, which had previously hosted archives of reporting guidance materials that were inaccessible to the public. The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)…

Homeless response systems need support to strengthen their resilience to extreme weather shocks and the disproportionate harm that extreme weather has on people experiencing homelessness.

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program provides voucher subsidies that enables low-income households to select the type of housing and location that meets their needs. However, the HCV program…