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As AI creates new opportunities, the people who understand a community best play an important role in determining how those opportunities take shape. Across the US, Microsoft is supporting AI literacy classes as part of a new program developed in collaboration with the Public Library Association, working through trusted local institutions to help people build practical AI skills. By pairing new technology with local knowledge, the initiative is helping communities explore how AI can support their needs and open new possibilities, while putting local leaders and organizations at the center of that work. Read the full story here.

America’s meat supply crisis
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America’s meat supply crisis

Former Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack explains how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of the U.S. meat supply chain and threatens to disrupt the entire industry, from farmers to processing plants to grocery store shelves.

Podcast: America’s Meat Supply Crisis with Tom Vilsack
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Podcast: America’s Meat Supply Crisis with Tom Vilsack

Listen: With just a few companies controlling the vast majority of beef, pork and poultry processing in the US, the nation's meat supply chain was already vulnerable. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of the system and threatens to disrupt the entire industry, from farmers to processing plants to grocery store shelves.