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Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Online

The Center for Reproductive Rights is taking legal action against three states – Idaho, Tennessee, and Oklahoma -- where it says abortion bans have jeopardized care for pregnant people. A lawyer for the nonprofit said it seeks “to demonstrate that pregnant people are being denied timely medical care wherever abortion is banned, and to give clarity to doctors who he described as ‘terrified’ of providing the procedure.” Abortion opponents accuse the group of using “scare tactics” and exaggerating the consequences of abortion restrictions. (Washington Post)

After two years of historically large declines in the poverty rate, the share of Americans living in poverty made its largest single-year jump on record last year, thanks to rising prices and expiring pandemic aid programs. The overall poverty rate rose from 7.8 percent in 2021 to 12.4 percent in 2022, while the rate of child poverty more than doubled, to 12.4 percent, with the end of the expanded child tax credit. The labor market stayed tight, but those unable to work, or to work full time, were especially hard hit by the loss of benefits and overheated inflation. (New York Times)

More News

• No Progress on Hunger in D.C. Region Since Pandemic, Food Bank’s Report Finds (Washington Post)
• Amid Backdrop of Migrant Crisis, Mass. Legislature Considers Cash, Food Aid for Legal Immigrants (Boston Globe)
• Billionaire Jeff Green Relies on Data to Give Back — and Sometimes Emotion, Too (Barron’s)
• Nonprofit’s New Head Courts Hollywood’s Help in Bridging Political Divide (Hill)

Arts and Culture

• With $40 Million Gift, New York Philharmonic Jump-Starts Dudamel Era (New York Times)
• Echoing Federal Theater Project, 18 Towns Plan Simultaneous Events (New York Times)
• Philadelphia’s Penn Museum Plans $54 Million Renovations to Its New Egypt and Nubia Galleries (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Move Over Netflix, This Miami Art Museum Is Launching Its Own Streaming Service (Miami Herald)
• Longtime Head of Boston’s Premier Performing Arts Nonprofit to Step Down Next Year (Boston Globe)
• Harvard Museum Director Stepping Down (Boston Globe)
• Playwright and ‘Moonlight’ Screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney to Lead Geffen Playhouse (Los Angeles Times)