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This week: Jennifer Szweda Jordan, a longtime caregiver to people with intellectual disabilities, recounts in her first-person essay the joys and challenges of caregiving, noting that professionals like her are in short supply. ([link removed])
Also, Mayor Ed Gainey was elected after promising to promote racial equity in Pittsburgh. Designing government programs to accomplish that is legally and practically tricky, especially in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to nix college affirmative action. A coming disparity study may be key. ([link removed])
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** As the legal ground shifts under race-specific programs, Pittsburgh inches toward a long-delayed review of policies ([link removed])
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* Pittsburgh outlined when and where it may remove unhoused people and their belongings from tent encampments ([link removed]) . Legal advocates say it doesn’t protect the rights of the unhoused.
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