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Daily News Lesson April 01 2024

What is Medicaid? And what happens when we lose health care

Learn about the ways changes to Medicaid are impacting some Americans
City officials have begun what they are calling a slow and methodical clean-up and removal of a large homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River Trail in Anaheim, California
Daily News Lesson March 22 2024

Californians approve plan to address homelessness

Hear about a new initiative to take on homelessness in California
A photo illustration shows a stethoscope and blood-pressure machine as a French general practitioner works in a doctor's office in Bordeaux
Daily News Lesson April 11 2023

Top lesson: Millions face loss of Medicaid + News wrap 4/12/23 + Student Video
Learn about a rule that could cost millions access to health insurance
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Daily News Lesson October 27 2022

How one group is breaking the cycle of youth returning to prison
Searching for Justice series contains lessons to teach your students what happens AFTER people leave prison
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Daily News Lesson September 13 2022

Congress ends free meal program for students at same time child poverty declines — and other news for Sept. 14, 2022
Republicans blocked another extension of the program, saying the worst of the pandemic was over
Pennsylvania Schools Distribute Lunches While Closed For Coronavirus
Daily News Lesson June 28 2022

Congress extends school lunch program at last minute
Learn how late vote may have jeopardized summer meals for nearly 7 million children
Poor People's Campaign hosts Moral March on Washington
Lesson Plan June 23 2022

Lesson plan: Amid rising economic inequality, does America need a third Reconstruction?

Learn about the Poor People's Campaign and explore its historic roots
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Daily Video July 03 2019

Lesson Plan: The power of photographs from Vietnam to the border crisis
Use this PBS NewsHour Extra lesson plan to understand the power of photographs and the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Students in Classroom Raising Hands
Post May 22 2019

Educator Voice: The hard work of softening resistance to trauma-informed teaching
by Melissa Monzyk, English teacher, Ritenour High School, St. Louis, Missouri I lo…
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Daily Video December 17 2018

Human geography lesson: Why one-third of the Marshall Islands has left for the US
In this lesson plan, students will learn why one-third of the Marshall Islands’ population has moved to the U.S. mainland.
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