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Prices are up 7.7% with parents paying an average of $173.45 for their school supply haul. That’s an even bigger jump than last year. Add to that an 11% hike in prices for school lunch essentials and costs balloon to nearly $4,000 a year to cover supplies and meals. 19thnews.org/2026/07/scho...
You're not imagining it: Your kid's school supplies cost more this yearFrom lunchboxes to No. 2 pencils, the prices are skyrocketing. Here's how much.19thnews.orgThe last few years in Mississippi have been among the hottest on record, and the National Weather Service forecasts that trend is likely to continue. This story was originally published in @mississippitoday.org: https://bit.ly/4wZrqJk
Mississippi is getting hotter. Experts say it’s hurting moms and babies.Exposure to extreme heat can be harmful during pregnancy, but most doctors don't routinely address it.19thnews.orgAs an environmental sociologist, Dorceta Taylor has dedicated her career to reframing and expanding representation in the environmental justice movement. https://bit.ly/4h1mChV
Meet the woman behind the world’s first environmental justice encyclopediaDorceta Taylor spent decades pushing back on the idea that environmentalism ‘wasn't a Black thing.’ Now she's rewritten its history.19thnews.orgJust about every back-to-school item that families will load into their literal or virtual carts this summer has gone up in price at a time when American families already feel crushed by rising costs. https://bit.ly/4pKN4P7
You're not imagining it: Your kid's school supplies cost more this yearFrom lunchboxes to No. 2 pencils, the prices are skyrocketing. Here's how much.19thnews.orgAbout half of parents expect to take on debt to cover back-to-school shopping this year, up from 34 percent in 2024, according to a survey of parents with kids under 18 conducted this summer by Intuit Credit Karma. https://bit.ly/4bgPZsM
You're not imagining it: Your kid's school supplies cost more this yearFrom lunchboxes to No. 2 pencils, the prices are skyrocketing. Here's how much.19thnews.orgDemocratic candidates in competitive races are hoping that anger over labor and delivery unit closures will prompt voters to reject the Republican lawmakers who helped enact President Trump's tax-and-spending law, which contained nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid.
As maternity wards close, community outrage rises in key battleground statesMillions of women of childbearing age live in counties where there's no place to give birth. Nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts could devastate labor-and-delivery services in already struggling hospi...19thnews.org
It was such a joy to talk with my new friend across the pond about one of our favorite Revolutionaries! I hope you'll listen to our conversation about the indomitable Elizabeth Freeman
Isabelle Roughol🚨 I just published Broad History, ep 13, "American Revolution | Ep 4 | Elizabeth Freeman, the true meaning of freedom (with Errin Haines)". Have a listen. https://share.transistor.fm/s/914fa8e1
Mulvaney thanked the president for “reminding me that I am more powerful than I even knew,” after he mentioned her by name four times during an hour-long address to the White House press corps in Washington.
Dylan Mulvaney says Trump’s criticism of her is ‘the greatest compliment of all’"It puts me in the company of some of, like, the most brilliant, empathetic people in our world today," the transgender actress and creator said in a TikTok video on Sunday.19thnews.orgSimilar initiatives will appear on the ballot in Arizona and Colorado but unlike those measures, which would broadly require schools to designate athletic programs as definitively male, female or co-ed, Washington state’s initiative applies to only girls’ sports.
How Washington state’s sports ballot measure will impact all girlsA ballot initiative to bar transgender girls from girls’ teams would require all girls to ‘verify’ their identity.19thnews.orgSome say the new language puts a greater focus on planning for pregnancy rather than preventing it.
The new teen pregnancy prevention plan isn't that focused on preventionThe Trump administration will steer millions of dollars toward organizations that focus on anatomy, fertility tracking, hormonal production and “reproductive goals counseling.”19thnews.orgKaua’i spent at least a decade without a single opening for infants or toddlers at childcare centers, causing moms to quit their jobs or leave the island. Now, an effort is underway to change that.
The island without childcare for babiesKaua’i spent at least a decade without a single opening for infants or toddlers at childcare centers, causing moms to quit their jobs or leave the island. Now, an effort is underway to change that.19thnews.org
Journalists rarely talk to people with Alzheimer's disease. Reporting this out for @19thnews.org was fascinating.
An Alzheimer’s diagnosis changed their lives. They decided how.Women make up two-thirds of Alzheimer's diagnoses. Three women share how catching it early let them take control of what comes next.19thnews.org
Despite being targeted at trans women, this policy has potential to impact intersex cisgender women — many of them don’t even know they are. There are no known trans women playing on the WTA. But plenty of cis women who now have to go through medical tests to prove their eligibility. @19thnews.org
Tennis is the first major women's sports league to require genetic testingThis policy impacts all women; and most other women’s leagues aren’t taking the plunge.19thnews.orgKaua’i spent at least a decade without a single opening for infants or toddlers at childcare centers, causing moms to quit their jobs or leave the island. Now, an effort is underway to change that. 19thnews.org/2026/07/hawa...
The island without childcare for babiesKaua’i spent at least a decade without a single opening for infants or toddlers at childcare centers, causing moms to quit their jobs or leave the island. Now, an effort is underway to change that.19thnews.org
As far as I can find, the Women's Tennis Association is the only major women’s sports league to require genetic sex testing. Who does this actually impact? Well, cis women who happen to be intersex. Read more here:
Tennis is the first major women's sports league to require genetic testingThis policy impacts all women; and most other women’s leagues aren’t taking the plunge.19thnews.orgDespite being targeted at transgender women, this policy has the greatest potential to impact intersex cisgender women — especially because many of them don’t know they are intersex.
Tennis is the first major women's sports league to require genetic testingThis policy impacts all women; and most other women’s leagues aren’t taking the plunge.19thnews.org
“Vaccines are a victim of their own success. We not only eliminated the disease, we eliminated the memory of this virus, and that’s where we’re suffering." 19thnews.org/2026/07/meas...
The U.S. has already surpassed last year’s number of measles cases. Here’s what’s driving the surge.New data data shows the resurgence is being fueled by falling childhood vaccination rates, misinformation and outbreaks concentrated among unvaccinated people.19thnews.org
The Trump administration is on a hiring spree for immigration judges. For @19thnews.org, I examine the message government social media accounts send by recruiting with the image of Judge Dredd — a comic book character created as a critique of brutal policing in an authoritarian society.
Trump is reshaping immigration courts with help from a brutal comic book characterDHS used the authoritarian comic book character Judge Dredd to recruit immigration judges, as the Trump administration fires hundreds of sitting judges.19thnews.org