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In Bill Fletcher Jr.'s first novel, The Man Who Fell from the Sky, the sleepy Cape Cod town of Osterville has blood on its hands. In this murder mystery, Fletcher digs through layers of racism in Southern Massachusetts to uncover more than the killer's identity. The novel compellingly exposes the racism of society, turning its victims against each other.

AbstractA manifesto written in the form of a letter is a tradition in the African American canon, one that undergoes a radical revision in this essay. Whether in My Dungeon Shook, the first section of James Baldwin's 1963 classic The Fire Next Time or Ta‐Nehisi Coates's 2015 Between the World and Me, the strategy was a pedagogical one. The double work being done in these texts was to use a stated reader, in each case a family member, to grant the writer an intimacy that guaranteed the larger claims made on racism in America. Yet both writers seemed ultimately to elude that stated reader for a not too implicit, liberal white reader. In "How to Blow Up a Wall with a Heartbeat," the text reverses this tactic to ask what a new life teaches us about racism and the desire for human connection it frustrates. The time frame is the end of the Obama presidency, where there was a hint of hope, even if it was betrayed. It ends shortly after November 2016 when white Americans chose a president who threatened to initiate a new neo‐Jim‐Crow era and asks: How does the endless, generative power of life teach a man of color to love during a politically reactionary time?

In the field of development assistance and humanitarian aid work, donor requirements can often stifle the effectiveness and efficiency of a project or program. This can be especially true for organizations of smaller size that do not have the capacity to handle high administrative requirements, international procurement procedures, or complex non-standard technical designs. The result of these donor requirements can be an overburdened implementing organization that struggles to meet the agreed upon project outcomes while maintaining their own flexibility to navigate the local contextual environment. This paper examines how specific donor requirements affect the project's outputs and outcomes. In order to do this, I will examine projects completed by Solbakken (SBK) from 2014 – 2018, identify the donor requirements for each project and determine if they affected the project outputs and outcomes. During the organization's five years of operation, fifteen projects were implemented that were funded by five different donor organizations. Each donor organization had different requirements that created challenges and demanded different levels of attention and capacity. Donor requirements that divert resources is not a unique occurrence, but normally discussed in relation to government agencies or large international non-governmental organizations (INGO)s, not small local nongovernmental organizations (NGO)s. This paper attempts to show how these donor requirements affect projects in practical and observable ways. ; M-IES

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Detailed data on private providers of long-term community-based residential services for persons with developmental disabilities permit investigation of the causes of frontline worker turnover. The endogeneity of turnover with compensation variables is accounted for in the estimation using instrumental variables. Turnover is determined by resident characteristics, frontline-worker compensation, and establishment characteristics. The share of higher-need residents and agency size predict higher turnover, while compensation and non-profit status are associated with lower turnover. Our findings indicate that public policies to reduce turnover through compensation subsidization can be effective. Our preferred estimates suggest an approximate one-quarter increase in total compensation would cut turnover by one-third.

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