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In actions that address climate change, there are actions that can promote equity, actions that can help us forestall pandemics, and that can at some of the biggest disease burdens in the world.
WHY FIGHTING CLIMATE CHANGE IS KEY TO AMERICA’S HEALTHERIKA FRYSEPTEMBER 16, 2020FORTUNE
That collective burden will drag down regional incomes by roughly 10%, amounting to one of the largest transfers of wealth in American history, as people who live farther north will benefit from that change and see their fortunes rise.
CLIMATE CHANGE WILL FORCE A NEW AMERICAN MIGRATIONBY ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN, PHOTOGRAPHY BY MERIDITH KOHUTSEPTEMBER 15, 2020PROPUBLICA
Stanley Fischer, former vice chair of the Federal Reserve, said Friday in a Bloomberg Television interview that a low interest-rate burden means the Fed can do more to bolster the economy.
AMERICA’S $20 TRILLION DEBT IS GETTING CHEAPER AS IT GROWSMCKENNA MOORESEPTEMBER 12, 2020FORTUNE
The benefit we have is we don’t have the burden of traditional media.
‘WE DON’T HAVE THE BURDEN OF TRADITIONAL MEDIA’: CONFESSIONS OF AN UPSTART AGENCY HOLDING GROUP MDSEB JOSEPHSEPTEMBER 7, 2020DIGIDAY
Maybe the user will not do that, and the burden shouldn’t be on the individual to make these decisions.
EIGHT CASE STUDIES ON REGULATING BIOMETRIC TECHNOLOGY SHOW US A PATH FORWARDKAREN HAOSEPTEMBER 4, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
This cycle, the coronavirus is considered a big driver, since the burden of dealing with the pandemic’s societal upheaval has fallen disproportionately on women.
WOMEN ARE MAKING MORE BIG POLITICAL DONATIONS IN 2020 THAN EVER BEFORE. HERE’S WHYCLAIRE ZILLMAN, REPORTERSEPTEMBER 4, 2020FORTUNE
This insight of hearing but not always listening allowed me to acknowledge different points of view and try to better understand them without feeling the burden of just doing what people told me.
THE ADVICE THAT HELPED THIS YEAR’S 40 UNDER 40 FIND THEIR OWN PATHKDUNN6SEPTEMBER 3, 2020FORTUNE
HUD cites no evidence that the existing rule is placing an undue burden on faith-based shelter providers.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TARGETS HOMELESS TRANS AMERICANSJENNIFER WEXTONSEPTEMBER 2, 2020WASHINGTON BLADE
Recently released guidance from the Department of Labor, however, places a new burden on parents who have taken the most cautious route.
IF YOU CHOOSE VIRTUAL LEARNING FOR YOUR KIDS, YOU’LL LIKELY BE DISQUALIFIED FROM EXPANDED PAID LEAVE FROM THE GOVERNMENTEHINCHLIFFESEPTEMBER 1, 2020FORTUNE
Taking the technical burden off of states should help increase adoption of digital contact-tracing apps.
APPLE AND GOOGLE EXPAND DIGITAL CORONAVIRUS CONTACT-TRACING TOOLS TO HELP SPEED ADOPTIONDZANEMORRISSEPTEMBER 1, 2020FORTUNE
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WORDS RELATED TO BURDEN

  • actualities
  • animals
  • beings
  • bodies
  • bulks
  • concretenesses
  • cores
  • corpuses
  • fabrics
  • forces
  • hunks
  • individuals
  • items
  • masses
  • materials
  • matters
  • objects
  • persons
  • phenomena
  • realities
  • somethings
  • staples
  • stuff
  • textures
  • things
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