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I keep passing along a pair of articles that made me think more about intersections between government policy, food, economics, health, and poverty. There's a lot going on in both of these articles that is definitely worth consindering:
"You are What You Grow," about the cost of nutrition and how the Farm Bill subsidies are forcing the obesity epidemic onto our poorest citizens.
and
"In Turnabout, Infant Death Climbs in South," about cuts in Medicaid and signs of serious deficiencies in health care. Big surprise.
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Also-- I'm doing my best to finagle my way into an independent study on Turkish German writers and a first-year Turkish language class, so that I can spend a large portion of the fall reading German and learning Turkish. Yay! I'm trying to work up a reading list for the independent study, and it's exactly what I need to get my brain on the academic track again. I'm going to develop a killer library of all things Turkish German. A library IN MY HEAD.
"You are What You Grow," about the cost of nutrition and how the Farm Bill subsidies are forcing the obesity epidemic onto our poorest citizens.
and
"In Turnabout, Infant Death Climbs in South," about cuts in Medicaid and signs of serious deficiencies in health care. Big surprise.
(If you can't access the articles using these links because you are required to log in, an online membership for the New York Times is FREE.)
Also-- I'm doing my best to finagle my way into an independent study on Turkish German writers and a first-year Turkish language class, so that I can spend a large portion of the fall reading German and learning Turkish. Yay! I'm trying to work up a reading list for the independent study, and it's exactly what I need to get my brain on the academic track again. I'm going to develop a killer library of all things Turkish German. A library IN MY HEAD.