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  • Salt Lake City a model for S.F. on homeless solutions

    June 28, 2014 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    San Francisco’s chronically homeless population remains staggeringly high. Salt Lake City has managed to eradicate much of their chronically homeless by geographically placing supportive housing distant from the city’s center and receiving financial assistance from the Mormon Church. The housing is attractive, modern, and offers a good ratio between counselors and homeless clients—all of which helps make the homeless want to stay off the streets.

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  • A decade of homelessness: Thousands in S.F. remain in crisis

    June 27, 2014 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Between 2004 and 2014, San Francisco’s mayor attempted to rid the city of chronic homelessness with a ten-year plan. Despite dramatic successes in moving thousands of homeless from the streets, the homeless population numbers remain the same and chronic homelessness may never be eradicated. In reexamining the problems from the ten-year plan, the current administration has new ideas to decrease their number of homeless.

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  • The Abstinence Method

    June 17, 2014 |

    Modern Farmer |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Beers

    Dutch farmers are saying no to antibiotics for livestock. The Netherlands is in the midst of a high-stakes, government-mandated experiment: Can large-scale meat production succeed without routine use of antibiotics?

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  • How Public Markets Support Small Businesses Owned by Women, Minorities and Immigrants

    June 16, 2014 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The creation, support and development of farmers' markets around the United States lends itself to the economic empowerment of women and minority growers. From Seattle to Philadelphia, these small public markets make breaking into the food business accessible to more people on the economic scale, a hard goal to accomplish for larger grocery store chains.

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  • Farmers markets reaching more consumers who get nutritional benefits

    June 08, 2014 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Through creative financing and new technology, a non-profit in San Francisco is making farmers markets more accessible to residents who rely on federal nutrition benefits.

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  • Golf courses start to reuse stormwater to keep grass green

    June 05, 2014 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Woodbury, Minnesota

    A few communities are using stormwater to keep golf courses, baseball and soccer fields green or to irrigate public landscapes.

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  • An Antidote to Overdose, in Time to Save Lives

    May 21, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Quincy, Massachusetts

    Naloxone could be the secret to curing New England's heroin consumption. Trying to expand access to the life-saving overdose antidote is the real obstacle.

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  • A Grass-Roots Drive for Clean Elections in Karnataka

    May 15, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Karnataka

    B. Godihal is one of the thousands of communities in Karnataka that have worked to hold clean elections, stirred by a confluence of awareness campaigns by nongovernmental organizations and rising public frustration with candidates’ broken promises.

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  • Obamacare in Jail: How San Francisco Policy Helps Inmates

    April 30, 2014 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Health insurance sign-ups made available to all inmates at the San Francisco county jail, partnered with guidance from a clinic once they are on the outside, allows them to receive better care upon release, and may help prevent a return to crime and substance abuse.

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  • In Florida Tomato Fields, a Penny Buys Progress

    April 24, 2014 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Immokalee, Florida

    For decades, migrant workers in Florida have been employed under dreadful conditions, picking produce without breaks under extreme temperatures and women being sexually harassed. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers has demanded that growers increase wages, mandate rest breaks, and prohibit sexual harassment. The Coalition has partnered with big food companies, notably McDonald’s, Yum Brands, and Walmart, which have pledged to buy only from growers who follow these standards.

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