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Texas Teen Birth Rate Remains 46 Percent Above National Average

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SAN ANTONIO, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas teenagers are giving birth at a rate that is 46 percent higher than the national average, according to the latest Texas Adolescent Health Report (TAHR) released by Healthy Futures of Texas. The Texas teen birth rate was 20.3 per 1,000 teens, while the U.S. teen birth rate was 13.9 for the same age group – a 46 percent difference.

Key Points: 
  • SAN ANTONIO, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas teenagers are giving birth at a rate that is 46 percent higher than the national average, according to the latest Texas Adolescent Health Report (TAHR) released by Healthy Futures of Texas .
  • The Texas teen birth rate was 20.3 per 1,000 teens, while the U.S. teen birth rate was 13.9 for the same age group – a 46 percent difference.
  • Among these counties, Potter County (Amarillo, Texas), Ector County (Odessa, Texas), and Webb County (Laredo, Texas) had the highest teen birth rates.
  • "Despite recent declines, the Texas teen birth rate is 46 percent higher than the U.S. rate, and Texas continues to have one of the highest rates of repeat teen pregnancies in the nation.

The Khana Group (TKG) Announces New CEO, Dr. Candace Miller

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NEW YORK, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Khana Group (TKG), a leading social impact research, evaluation, data collection, and strategy firm working across Africa to improve evidence & impact with data, today the appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Candace Miller. Dr. Candace Miller will succeed Taa Wongbe, Founder and outgoing CEO of TKG, who will be transitioning to the role of Founder and Advisor.

Key Points: 
  • Dr. Candace Miller will succeed Taa Wongbe, Founder and outgoing CEO of TKG, who will be transitioning to the role of Founder and Advisor.
  • NEW YORK, May 9, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Khana Group (TKG), a leading social impact research, evaluation, data collection, and strategy firm working across Africa to improve evidence & impact with data, today the appointment of its new Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Candace Miller.
  • Dr. Candace Miller will succeed Taa Wongbe, Founder and outgoing CEO of TKG, who will be transitioning to the role of Founder and Advisor.
  • Dr. Candace Miller is a purposeful, global leader and expert who comes to TKG with over 27 years of extensive background in global development and research.

Budget 2023: Budgeting for difficult times is hard – just ask Chalmers

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Surplus or not, the budget papers show us living through pretty awful times.

Key Points: 
  • Surplus or not, the budget papers show us living through pretty awful times.
  • Living standards measured by the buying power of wages are set to go backwards in 2023-24 as wages are expected to grow by 3.75% while prices rise by 6%.
  • The good news on the government’s finances is largely historical.

The good news is old news

    • After 2023-24, it will be deficits again for at least a decade on the budget’s projections, as the unusual circumstances that delivered the unexpected $42.15 billion fall away.
    • The unemployment rate is set to climb from its long-term low of 3.5% to 4.25% by mid next year and to 4.5% by mid-2025.
    • After that, it is scheduled to barely grow in 2024-25, climbing just 0.5%, before returning to growth of 4.4% and 4.9 in 2025-26 and 2026-27.
    • The ultra-expensive Stage 3 income tax cuts deliver a hard-to-defend $2,000 per year to high earners on $120,000 per year.
    • Where Chalmers has supported Australians hit by ultra-high inflation in this budget, he has tried to do it cheaply.
    • As important as extending parenting payments to single parents with children up to 14 years of age will be those who need it.

Chalmers’ budgets will get harder

    • Chalmers said during his press conference this budget had been much harder to put together than his first.
    • What he could have added is that his next budget is shaping up to be even harder.
    • The economic forecasts in the budget suggest the coming per-capital recession won’t turn into an actual recession.
    • Future budgets are shaping up to require just as much.

Visa, Council for Economic Education, and Operation HOPE Partner to Advance Financial Education

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Global payments technology leader Visa, in partnership with leading financial literacy nonprofits, Council for Economic Education (CEE) and Operation HOPE announced today a collaboration to promote financial education and financial literacy throughout the country.

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  • Global payments technology leader Visa, in partnership with leading financial literacy nonprofits, Council for Economic Education (CEE) and Operation HOPE announced today a collaboration to promote financial education and financial literacy throughout the country.
  • Operation HOPE joined FinEd50, a nationwide coalition of nonprofits, community leaders, and corporate partners founded by Visa and CEE to improve access to quality financial education for students across the country, and effect change in education policy at the state level.
  • Similarly, Operation HOPE – a leading nonprofit whose mission is to disrupt poverty and secure financial dignity for all through financial coaching, education, and empowerment – expands the breadth of its commitment to financial literacy through joining the FinEd50 effort to promote financial education throughout the country.
  • “Each Financial Literacy for All member is committed to the mission of making financial literacy a fundamental part of our schools, workplaces, communities, and its corporate culture.

Submissions for the $1 Million Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge to Open June 1

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The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), a nonprofit scientific organization committed to advancing the science of food and its application across the global food system, and the Seeding The Future Foundation are proud to announce the return of the annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge .

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  • The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), a nonprofit scientific organization committed to advancing the science of food and its application across the global food system, and the Seeding The Future Foundation are proud to announce the return of the annual Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge .
  • (Acceso)
    Accelerating the deployment of aquaponics that combine soilless crop production and fish farming to increase global food production in the face of climate change.
  • (World Wildlife Fund)
    “The Global Food System Challenge is meant to be a call to action to the global food community.
  • “The Seeding The Future Global Food System Challenge mirrors IFT’s mission and commitment to addressing food insecurity and ensuring a healthy future for our global food supply,” said IFT CEO Christie Tarantino-Dean.

View from The Hill: Chalmers' budget delivers modestly to the vulnerable while keeping the inflation ogre in mind

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The government has delivered measures to ease cost-of-living pressures on the most vulnerable, including on income support and rent assistance.

Key Points: 
  • The government has delivered measures to ease cost-of-living pressures on the most vulnerable, including on income support and rent assistance.
  • Treasurer Jim Chalmers says it’s a balance between “doing what we can for the people doing it tough and keeping the pressure on inflation”.
  • But another bunch of critics, loud among them the opposition, will insist the budget wasn’t responsible enough – that it in fact squibs the inflation fight.
  • While Chalmers insists his cost-of-living measures are restrained, some economists will maintain they’ll in fact add to the inflation problem.
  • Those in the centre of the income scale, feeling squeezed by escalating interest rates, may feel left out in this budget.
  • But if the budget doesn’t deliver much to these people, not does it overtly poke them in the eye.

Jim Chalmers hands down a budget for Anthony Albanese's battlers

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The budget is aimed firmly at the most vulnerable and has a significant focus on women.

Key Points: 
  • The budget is aimed firmly at the most vulnerable and has a significant focus on women.
  • However, those on middle incomes receive little – although families with children can benefit from the extra bulk billing.
  • Delivering his second budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers said inflation remained “our primary economic challenge.
  • As part of a bid to make Australia “a renewable energy superpower”, the budget allocates a further $4 billion.

Budgeting for difficult times is hard – just ask Jim Chalmers

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Surplus or not, the budget papers show us living through pretty awful times.

Key Points: 
  • Surplus or not, the budget papers show us living through pretty awful times.
  • Living standards measured by the buying power of wages are set to go backwards in 2023-24 as wages are expected to grow by 3.75% while prices rise by 6%.
  • Separate figures released by the Bureau of Statistics as Treasurer Jim Chalmers was preparing to deliver his speech show the volume of goods and services bought from Australian retailers has shrunk for the past six months.

The good news is old news

    • After 2023-24, it will be deficits again for at least a decade on the budget’s projections, as the unusual circumstances that delivered the unexpected $42.15 billion fall away.
    • The unemployment rate is set to climb from its long-term low of 3.5% to 4.25% by mid next year and to 4.5% by mid-2025.
    • After that, it is scheduled to barely grow in 2024-25, climbing just 0.5%, before returning to growth of 4.4% and 4.9 in 2025-26 and 2026-27.
    • The ultra-expensive Stage 3 income tax cuts deliver a hard-to-defend $2,000 per year to high earners on $120,000 per year.
    • Where Chalmers has supported Australians hit by ultra-high inflation in this budget, he has tried to do it cheaply.
    • As important as extending parenting payments to single parents with children up to 14 years of age will be those who need it.

Chalmers’ budgets will get harder

    • Chalmers said during his press conference this budget had been much harder to put together than his first.
    • What he could have added is that his next budget is shaping up to be even harder.
    • The economic forecasts in the budget suggest the coming per-capital recession won’t turn into an actual recession.
    • Future budgets are shaping up to require just as much.

Budget spends big on support but won't make much difference to poverty

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But despite the investment, my analysis shows they will not make a significant difference to poverty in Australia.

Key Points: 
  • But despite the investment, my analysis shows they will not make a significant difference to poverty in Australia.
  • However, the focus of this piece is on permanent changes to the tax and cash welfare system from this budget.
  • While the welfare payment increases are welcome, they represent a less than 2% increase in the welfare budget each year.
  • But they are so far below the poverty line, this budget doesn’t do enough to shift them out of poverty.

African governments harness education data to reverse learning crisis

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Harnessing education data to drive learning transformation will be a key takeaway for the global education community at EWF, the biggest gathering of education ministers in the world.

Key Points: 
  • Harnessing education data to drive learning transformation will be a key takeaway for the global education community at EWF, the biggest gathering of education ministers in the world.
  • They face what World Bank Education Director, Jaime Saavedra, calls, “the most serious crisis in education in 100 years.”
    Despite such enormous challenges, NewGlobe-supported programs in Nigeria, Liberia, Rwanda, and Manipur (India) are leading the way in the use of education data-led solutions to Learning Poverty.
  • Using NewGlobe’s Spotlight software, gives education leaders access to key data in real time – empowering the government to make informed interventions.
  • EWF promises to inspire governments to harness education data to reshape education and overcome Learning Poverty, with visionary African governments leading.