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Every year South Asia’s brick kilns spew as much CO₂ as the entire U.S. car fleet. Kilns poison the air that 2 billion people breathe—and kill over 50,000 annually A new study in Science shows how simple fixes can clean air, cut emissions & improve public health🧵⬇️

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WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree? TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution? TRUMP: I don't know

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FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

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Happy to share this new @voxdev.bsky.social post summarizing findings from our recent JDE paper on the effects of relaxing multiple agricultural productivity constraints in a program operating at scale Blog post: voxdev.org/topic/agricu... Paper (open access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Over 86% of 10,000 simulations show that a bundled agricultural programme in Kenya had a positive societal net benefit. Read the full article w/ @joshdeutschmann.bsky.social, Maya Duru, Kim Siegal & @econemilia.bsky.social to learn more:

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The @oneacrefund.bsky.social bundled farm program that provides credit + training + insurance to smallholders, boosted maize yields & profits in Kenya. Our new @voxdev.bsky.social piece discusses why tackling multiple constraints together can unlock big gains If bundling works, how can we scale it?

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🆕 Why bundled agricultural programmes may succeed where others fail Today on VoxDev, @joshdeutschmann.bsky.social (University of Chicago), Maya Duru (OES), Kim Siegal (Mathematica) & @econemilia.bsky.social (Macquarie University) outline research on Kenya: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

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How do business owners feel about hiring family members, and how does this affect hiring decisions? Read the full article w/ Nicholas Swanson @stanfordkingctr.bsky.social to learn more:

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Could you ever have imagined you would see a headline like this in your lifetime

submitted 50 days ago • 962 comments

Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 50 days ago • 134 comments

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 53 days ago • 859 comments

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 55 days ago • 754 comments

Van Hollen on Fox News Sunday: "I'm not vouching for the man. I'm vouching for the man's rights. His constitutional rights to due process."

submitted 57 days ago • 797 comments

Van Hollen: This case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the Constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.

submitted 59 days ago • 132 comments

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

submitted 59 days ago • 8399 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 63 days ago • 686 comments

The Trump administration is asserting the power to disappear people into foreign gulags without due process and openly discussing putting citizens there next. This is tyranny. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u... www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 63 days ago • 5 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 79 days ago • 178 comments

NYT - The Trump administration intends to terminate financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Each dot represents 10 people whose lives depend on US foreign aid, just for HIV prevention & treatment. Without it, 1.6m people could die per year.

submitted 92 days ago • 6 comments

I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?

submitted 96 days ago • 7768 comments

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

submitted 97 days ago • 117 comments

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

submitted 97 days ago • 165 comments

New Paper: Vulnerability of US dairy farms to extreme heat. My co-authors and I estimate the impacts of extreme heat (high temperature and humidity) on dairy cattle production throughout the Midwest. Some of the main findings:🧵

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BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES President Trump‘s emergency bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in USAID spending. The vote is 5-4.

submitted 103 days ago • 166 comments

NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

submitted 105 days ago • 247 comments

The choice not to reform USAID—but illegally obliterate it without any thought or analysis of the consequences—will sicken and kill people all over the world.

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NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

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NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes for work that’s been done. One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 106 days ago • 154 comments

An estimated 300,000 children globally are expected to lose access to a nutrient-dense peanut butter that’s specially formulated to treat severe acute malnutrition.

submitted 107 days ago • 64 comments

Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

submitted 108 days ago • 112 comments

The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

submitted 108 days ago • 271 comments

Bari Weiss’ publication has now turned on DOGE. I may be young but I’ve witnessed enough backlashes to know what one looks like. It’s usually when erstwhile supporters turn on you in a significant number, especially a prominent figure. Jack Murtha switching on Iraq in November 2005 is a good example

submitted 108 days ago • 23 comments

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submitted 108 days ago • 9 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 109 days ago • 431 comments

What a huge loss…

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Amidst all of the other layoffs of federal workers, a quick note on the ramifications of firing USDA APHIS staff. APHIS is responsible for enforcing many of the phytosanitary rules governing agricultural production, and evidently frontline inspectors were some of the hardest hit here. (1/5)

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“Pepfar has saved more than 26 million lives and prevented roughly 1,000 babies a day from being born with the HIV virus” Superb piece on how cuts to USAID will affect the world’s poorest, focusing on HIV on.ft.com/3QX1HhP

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Why Dean Karlan, Chief Economist of USAID resigned yesterday: "I was ready to rebuild from wherever we ended up to identify the most effective programs, figure out how to get them back in place, and to recommend new awards. But I received no response. Zero engagement." www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

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Been a while since we shared this! Here is a selection of our favourite sources of research, newsletters, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos related to development economics, including researchers who have written for VoxDev. go.bsky.app/4rsxm7G

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Recently accepted in #JEEM: 'Recognizing a good deal: Short-term subsidies and the dynamics of public service use' by Joshua W. Deutschmann. #econsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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