Quick Glance: EPA investigates discrimination in Alabama's sewage infrastructure funds
- The EPA will investigate possible racial discrimination in Alabama's management of funds for sewage infrastructure.
- The investigation comes after civil rights and environmental groups accused Alabama of discriminating against Black residents through the management of clean water funds.
- Specifically, they allege that Alabama's Department of Environmental Management blocks access to the funds in various ways, including disregarding financial need, conducting inadequate outreach to disadvantaged communities, and giving low scores to people using at-home sewer systems.
Quick Glance: Perfect Match: Student scores $6,000 designer wedding dress for $25 at Goodwill
- An Alabama student purchased a $25 wedding dress from Goodwill on Labor Day, only to discover it was valued at $6,000.
- Emmali Osterhoudt, a nursing student at the University of Alabama Birmingham, found picture frames for her apartment's gallery at a Goodwill store in Green Springs.
- To her surprise, Osterhoudt found out that the dress, designed by Galia Lahav, was worth $6,200.
- Osterhoudt, who was born in Germany and moved to Enterprise, Alabama due to military ties, appreciates the support she has received in the comment section.
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Quick Glance: Salary premiums may be jeopardized as the use of ChatGPT and other AI tools expands.
- Here are four approaches that workers and policymakers can take to meet the challenge.
- This time, it appears that not only white-collar workers performing routine tasks are in danger.
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Quick Glance: Meta stock drops 9% as Q2 earnings disclose first-ever revenue loss
- "We seem to have entered an economic downturn that will have a broad impact on the digital advertising business," stated CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
- The social network company also provided lower-than-expected third-quarter guidance as it continues to expand Reels, its competitor to TikTok, and suffers from lost advertising revenue as a result of Apple's IDFA privacy adjustment.
- "It's always hard to predict how deep or how long these cycles will be, but I'd say that the situation seems worse than it did a quarter ago," remarked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
- Meta is expanding its Instagram Reels offering to compete with TikTok.
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