A brilliant opinion piece was published in The NY Times addressing the unemployment numbers in the United States – and they are STAGGERING.

The article cites the drastic downfall in employment for people under the age of 30 – an assessment of stats not really used since 1948.

“As our country’s leaders consider a range of solutions to address this crisis, there’s one fix that will put millions of young Americans directly to work: a 21st-century version of the Civilian Conservation Corps.”

Read the rest of the article here.

Our population is feeling sliced down the middle – we’re either inside, breathing deep, getting online for meetings, and trying to keep ourselves healthy or we’re on the frontlines in hospitals, post offices, and grocery stores working like we’ve never worked before.

What comfort is there for us in these strange, frightening times?

You might have guessed what we think… no matter what is going on the world, there’s a place to find comfort and healing in the forest.

We just HAD to share this article from the Iceland Review about who you CAN hug today! Turns out you can hug, and hug, and hug to your delight!

Read how one Forest Agency supports hug therapy in the time of COVID-19 HERE.

The Guardian exposed emails between Trump and his associates to exploit information for industry gains:

“James Reilly, a former petroleum geologist and astronaut who is the director of the US Geological Survey, in a series of emails in 2018 asked scientists to ‘gin up’ emissions figures for him. He also said the numbers would make a ‘decent sound bite’ and acknowledged that wildfire emissions estimates could vary based on what kind of trees were burning but picked the ones that he said would make ‘a good story.’

“Scientists who reviewed the exchanges said that at best Reilly used unfortunate language and the department cherry-picked data to help achieve their pro-industry policy goals; at worst he and others exploited a disaster and manipulated the data.”

Read the full article here.