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• The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) and Uber recently launched a joint charter to help improve health and safety for millions of couriers in over 11,000 cities around the world. The charter includes a commitment to supporting Vision Zero and the Safe System approach, learn more about this new agreement. 
• A new CDC report shows emergency departments experienced more than 130,000 visits from pedestrians injured in traffic crashes from Jan. 2021-Dec. 2023. Dig more into the data for additional details on these visits. 
• The CDC has also forecasted a new funding opportunity to examine the effectiveness of interventions, programs or policies to reduce polysubstance-impaired driving. See the full overview of this opportunity.  
• Recent reports indicate the federal government may propose reclassifying cannabis as a less dangerous drug, moving it from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 3. This would be a major policy shift, but to ensure roadway safety it should not affect current regulations for safety-sensitive occupations.
• Are you a young person, practitioner or policymaker interested in shifting power to marginalized youth for transportation equity and mobility justice? Save the date for #NYTEC2024 on Sept. 20-21, 2024, in Denver, CO. 
• The VERITY Now Coalition applauds Senators Fischer (R-NE), Murray (D-WA), Duckworth (D-IL), and Blackburn (R-TN) for introducing groundbreaking bipartisan vehicle crash test equality legislation. This legislation, titled She Develops Regulations In Vehicle Equality and Safety Act (She DRIVES Act), mandates the use of female crash test dummies that more accurately represent female anatomy and requires an equal number and nature of crash tests for females as males in the government’s New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) tests – read more about the bill now.
• VERITY Now has also recently updated its resources page where you can find documents that explain the policies that have led to inequality in vehicle safety. You can find an FAQ on the She DRIVES Act, a “What People Are Saying” resource that outlines what others are saying about the government’s current crash testing policy and much more. 
• How much do you know about the origins of Vision Zero and the Safe System approach? Check out this recent BBC article that digs into the history of these efforts.