Provisional data from a trial in the French town of Frome appears to show that when isolated people who have health problems are supported by community groups and volunteers, the number of emergency admissions to hospital falls spectacularly. One physician remarks: “No other interventions on record have reduced emergency admissions across a population.”
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Resistance march in Philadelphia, March 8, 2017. -- Photo by Joe Piette via CC 2.0
Middle America is rebooting democracy.
“More than a national movement, what is underway is a national pattern of mutually energizing local engagement. Sociologically, what we are witnessing is an inflection point—a shift in long-standing trends—concentrated in one large demographic group, as college-educated women have ramped up their political participation en masse.”
Article: Middle America Reboots Democracy