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Boomers at work: How to retain the biggest labor pool in Maine

David Singer

April 18, 2019 |

WGME-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Portland, Maine

An organization in Portland, Maine ensures Baby Boomers who want to work are adequately trained and accepted in the work place. The Boomer Institute works with social security caps and flexible work hours, both of which prove to be obstacles for individuals looking for work after retirement.

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“What Does the World Beyond Jails and Prisons Look Like?”

Zenobia Jeffries

April 18, 2019 |

Yes! Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

The Detroit Justice Center is providing a comprehensive approach to breaking the cycle of poverty in the county. The nonprofit law firm provides immediate support, like paying back child support and posting the cash bail payments that keep those experiencing poverty trapped in a cycle of debt and imprisonment. The group also aims high in their larger efforts to disrupt the criminal justice system, like suing the county to prevent the building of a new jail complex, and provides their clients and the community the chance to reimagine what the city could look like with transformative and economic justice.

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This ‘Innovative' Housing Program Serves Just 3 Households

Sophie Quinton

April 17, 2019 |

Stateline |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

While a partnership between the city of Denver and surrounding businesses sparked an affordable housing program, the city still wants to push the program to a much larger scale. The program rent-controls specific apartments for folks spending more than 30% of their income on rent, though only a small number of individuals have been served thus far.

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Facing Segregated Schools, Parents Took Integration Into Their Own Hands. It's Working.

Eliza Shapiro

April 16, 2019 |

The New York Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

When City Hall was slow in addressing the issue of the deeply segregated schools in Manhattan and Brooklyn, parents took the matter in their own hands and drafted a proposal to integrate the students more. High-achieving students will enroll in low-performing schools and vice-versa, as well as doing away with the competitive admissions process to open up more spaces for students who are poor, homeless, learning English, or more. City Hall eventually approved the proposal with very little input from the mayor, but parents still maintain that they have a lot of work ahead of them still.

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NH recovery centers model how to treat recovering employees

Annmarie Timmins

April 11, 2019 |

New Hampshire Business Review |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

When people begin treatment for addiction, it can impact how they are viewed as an employee at their place of work. New Hampshire is working to change this stigma through the Recovery Friendly Workplace initiative that focuses on seeing treatment as a strength rather than weakness and also builds in practices to the workplace environment including trainings and evidence-based health and safety practices.

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Mercy aims to lower costs by assisting frequent ER patients

Mary Shinn

April 10, 2019 |

Durango Herald |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Durango, Colorado

In Durango, Colorado, the emergency room was being treated as a primary care center by those that did not understand how to navigate the health care system when faced with times of uncertainty in their life. To both address the misuse of the hospital and provide additional resources to this community Mercy Regional Medical Center implemented the Life Interruptions Need Kindness program which connects a social worker with the patient.

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By Forgiving Warrants and Fines, Communities Give People a Fresh Start

Keith Griffith

April 09, 2019 |

Yes! Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

Stand With Dignity, a grassroots, community organizing group in New Orleans, has coordinated warrant clinics for those driving with suspended licenses. These clinics have forgiven $2 million worth of traffic fines and reinstated licenses for hundreds of individuals, in the hopes of breaking the cycle of unpaid fines, which is often a driver of unemployment and poverty.

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With business buy-in and property tax boost, Charlotte got on path to universal public pre-K

Sarah Garrecht Gassen

April 07, 2019 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

A comprehensive effort by civic and business leaders to expand access to preschool education in Charlotte-Mecklenburg county resulted in a property tax that pays for high-quality preschool. The program is now serving over 600 students in 33 pulic pre-K classrooms.

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SEPTA quietly decriminalizes jumping turnstiles, lowers fines

Maura Ewing

April 03, 2019 |

WHYY |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s Transit Authority, SEPTA, has decriminalized fare evasion, with those who are caught facing a $25 fine. This is down from the prior $300 tickets that were issued in the past. The move toward decriminalization is part of a larger shift in the region for the criminal justice system to be less punitive and more rehabilitative, focusing more on addressing root causes of behavior.

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'Someone To Speak For You': Low-Income Tenants Get Lawyers For Housing Court

Jenifer McKim

April 03, 2019 |

NPR |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New York

New York City has pioneered one of the nation's first programs to provide free legal services to low-income tenants under threat of eviction. Recent studies have indicated that evictions declined more in cities that had implemented right to counsel, and more cities are looking to follow New York's example as they work to prevent housing instability and homelessness.

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