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Happy Tuesday! Here’s a quick summary of the featured activity across Change.org this week:

1. Featured News: Life Expectancy Widens
   A report this week revealed large and growing disparities in life expectancy for richer and poorer Americans, paralleling the growth of income inequality in the last two decades. In 1980, the most affluent Americans could expect to live 2.8 years longer than people in the most deprived group (75.8 versus 73 years). By 2000, the difference in life expectancy had increased to 4.5 years (79.2 versus 74.7 years), and it continues to grow. In the widest gulf combining race and income, the difference between poor black men and affluent white women was more than 14 years (66.9 years vs. 81.1 years).
2. Featured Action: Predatory Lending
   The recent housing crisis in America has been driven by many factors, but none are more pernicious than the predatory lending practices of a number of financial institutions. Many borrowers, particularly the elderly, were convinced to take loans far in excess of what they could afford based on complex and deliberately misleading paperwork and accounting. This practice is draining assets from hard-working families and communities and threatens to destabilize our economy. Tell Congress that predatory lending practices must be stopped today.
3. Featured Changemaker: Bradley Myles
   Our Changemaker of the Week is Bradley Myles, the Deputy Director of Polaris Project, a leading organization fighting against sex trafficking and exploitation. In response to questions last week about whether the experience of the high-priced prostitutes like those patronized by New York Governor Eliot Spitzer were representative of women in the sex trade, Bradley was interviewed by CNN and The New York Times to describe the physical and psychological abuse rampant in the sex industry, and how most women are driven into the trade in their early-mid teens and paid little more than they need to survive.
4. Featured Change: Save Endangered Animals from Extinction
   The biggest legacy our generation may leave to our children may not be peace and prosperity but instead environmental devastation - including land degradation, global warming, and the extinction of hundreds of thousands of earth’s species. According to the World Conservation Union, 40% of all organisms are endangered, and the protection of endangered animals has been a low priority for the Bush Administration. As recently reported by the Washington Post, the Bush Administration has placed fewer than 25% of the animals named by his father’s administration, with no animals listed in the last two years. Join this community today to find out what you can do to help save endangered animals and preserve our natural heritage.
5. Featured Nonprofit: Fellowship of Reconciliation
   Fellowship of Reconciliation is a leading interfaith organization committed to active nonviolence as a transforming way of life and as a means of radical change. Founded in 1915, FOR works around the world to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice with nonviolence, peace, and justice.

Have a great week!

- The Change.org Team

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