Tag Archives: Pandemics

Humans have transformed the planet. It’s making us sicker, study says.

State Library Ed. Note: If you cannot access this story via the link below, state employees can access this Washington Post story HERE via the State Library’s subscription to the US Newstream database. Alternatively, state employees can contact us for access: LibraryHelp.SLO@slo.oregon.gov or 503-378-8800. Evidence is mounting that human disruptions to natural ecosystems are raising risks of disease spread, according to […]
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Opinion | If H5N1 spreads among farmworkers, it could lead to a pandemic

State Library Ed. Note: If you cannot access this story via the link below, state employees can access this Washington Post story HERE via the State Library’s subscription to the US Newstream database. Alternatively, state employees can contact us for access: LibraryHelp.SLO@slo.oregon.gov or 503-378-8800. Failure to shield these workers could allow the H5N1 virus to become a greater threat. The discovery of […]
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How Poor Tracking of Bird Flu Leaves Dairy Workers at Risk

State Library Ed. Note: If you cannot access this story directly from the source, state employees can access this New York Times story HERE via the State Library’s subscription to the US Newstream database. Alternatively, state employees can contact us for access: LibraryHelp.SLO@slo.oregon.gov or 503-378-8800.

What it takes to convince families that kids need to attend school

The stories keep coming about students missing school, and a lot of it. Stay-at-home school during the COVID pandemic appears to be a factor in students and their parents not feeling a need to be in class on a regular basis. Chronic absenteeism–missing 10% of class time in an academic year–has zoomed across the country. […]
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As budget season begins, school districts on the North Coast tackle funding challenges

Pandemic-era federal stimulus funds expire in September. Confronted with enrollment declines and the end of federal stimulus money, school districts in Oregon and across the country are grappling with ways to balance budgets ahead of the new fiscal year. The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund was a lifeline for many school districts during […]
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Bird Flu Is Infecting More Mammals. What Does That Mean for Us?

Fewer Oregon graduates are going to college. These seniors face big decisions

Eight weeks before his high school graduation, Parkrose High senior Ginofa Shirai is still not sure what’s next. College sounds good, probably Portland State, though he considered Eastern Washington University near Spokane, where he has cousins. But whether he’ll make it there, the first of his mother’s four sons to go to college, is an […]
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Federal fraud may top $1.6 trillion between 2018 and 2022, watchdog estimates

State Library Ed. Note: If you cannot access this story via the link below, state employees can access this Washington Post story HERE via the State Library’s subscription to the US Newstream database. Alternatively, state employees can contact us for access: LibraryHelp.SLO@slo.oregon.gov or 503-378-8800. The first-of-its-kind analysis, based on spending between 2018 and 2022, follows a week after the White House […]
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Rural Americans are way more likely to die young. Why?

State Library Ed. Note: If you cannot access this story via the link below, state employees can access this Washington Post story HERE via the State Library’s subscription to the US Newstream database. Alternatively, state employees can contact us for access: LibraryHelp.SLO@slo.oregon.gov or 503-378-8800. Working-age people in rural parts of the country are 43 percent more likely to die than their […]
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