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☆ It wasn't until my 91-year-old aunt's funeral that I truly appreciated how inspiring she was
  + stars: | 2024-03-06 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementStill, it wasn't until I watched Lesley's funeral in December 2023 that I truly realized what a great role model she was. AdvertisementStill, as her eldest son, Nick, said at the funeral, "She never felt self-pity and made the best of things." She was the life and soul of the partyMy cousin mentioned my aunt's love of poetry at the funeral and her entertaining rendition of poems. Phil told me that she swore by facial scrubs from Sweden.
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☆ Librarians Turn to Civil Rights Agency to Oppose Book Bans and Their Firings
  + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Associated Press | Nov. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +7 min
And for that, Suzette Baker was fired as a library director in a rural county in central Texas. She and two other librarians who were similarly fired have filed workplace discrimination claims with the U.S. Reached through the Colorado Civil Rights Division, the settlement requires her former employer to give librarians more say in decisions involving library programs. After her firing in 2022, Baker filed an EEOC claim against her employer, the Llano County Library System in Kingsland, Texas. Like Baker, Lesley had trouble finding work after being fired from the library system she directed in Gillette, Wyoming.
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☆ Old trailer parks are being torn down, driving up homelessness as one of the last options for low-income renters fades away
  + stars: | 2023-05-21 | by ( Anita Snow | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +8 min
Residents of mobile home parks in Arizona are being asked to leave, so student housing can be built. Mobile homes, not always mobile, are hard to repair so they're being razed. "We are in the deepest affordable housing crisis we've ever experienced," said Joanna Carr, acting head of the Arizona Housing Coalition. Efforts under way to revitalize old mobile homes have limits. Many park residents are Spanish-speaking immigrants earning minimum wage as landscapers or restaurant workers.
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