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September 1, 2022

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Young farmers are needed but they lack land. Farm bill could address that

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NPR

Access to land and the ability to purchase it were rated as the top barriers to entering farming in a new survey released by the National Young Farmers Coalition and analyzed by the University of Wisconsin Survey Center. According to the survey, 59% of young farmers named finding affordable land to buy as very or extremely challenging, and 45% of young farmers named finding available land to buy as very or extremely challenging. The rates were higher — 68% — among farmers of color.

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Diversity staffers at US colleges earning six-figure salaries despite rising tuition costs

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Sinclair Broadcast Group

Schools like the University of Wisconsin – Madison, University of Virginia, Virginia Tech, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, University of California – Berkley, University of Michigan and other major American universities pay the heads of their diversity, equity and inclusion programs over $300,000, according to a review of publicly available salary data.

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Independent pharmacist says they are not experiencing same staffing challenges as Walgreens

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Spectrum News

Quoted: Beth Martin is a Professor of Pharmacy Practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

As Walgreens continues to struggle with recruiting pharmacists, Martin explained there has been a national decline in students interested in attending pharmacy schools. She said the pandemic has also put a strain on the system, however, that time was also used to push the field forward.

“A lot of our community pharmacists innovated,” Martin said. “They made new connections. They saw new problems to solve, so I think if we all continue to use that frame of reference, that perspective, we can get through this.”

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Forgiveness: How To Forgive Yourself And Others

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Forbes Health

Another leading expert on forgiveness, Robert Enright, Ph.D, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a pioneer in the scientific study of forgiveness, defines the practice by three factors. The first factor is moral virtue. “Moral virtues deal with goodness toward others,” he says, adding that this is not contingent upon one specific religious belief, though it is part of many religions, including Christianity, Islam and Buddhism.

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