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  • Appalachian Virginia Needs Workers. This Program Is Trying to Bring Them In.

    March 01, 2022 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    A program is paying certain professionals to move to rural Virginia. In exchange for $12,000 paid toward student loan debt, people who take hard-to-fill jobs must commit to staying for two years and performing 50 hours of community service. The grants have gone to teachers and people who work in technology and computer science.

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  • Are community jobs the solution for Missouri's sheltered workshops?

    February 23, 2022 |

    The Kansas City Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Sedalia, Missouri

    Even as several states banned subminimum wages for disabled workers and adopted versions of the "employment-first" legislation in the country, the Center for Human Services became an anomaly when it closed its sheltered workshop programs in Missouri where they find immense support. In the last five years, the non-profit has focused, instead, on helping adults with disabilities gain employment in traditional jobs in their own communities and earn minimal wages.

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  • ResQZone

    February 08, 2022 |

    KWCM-PBS |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Marshall, Minnesota

    An e-waste recycling program in Minnesota aims to take old computers that normally end up in a landfill and give them to community members with income-based needs. Since the ResQZone initiative started as a partnership between a nonprofit and the county government, they’ve been able to get 420 computer systems back into public use. They also hire and train people with disabilities to do the refurbishing.

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  • Virginia clean energy job training program climbs its own learning curve

    January 25, 2022 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    To ensure that marginalized communities, include Black residents and the formerly incarcerated, have the skills and opportunity to be a part of the growing solar and energy-efficiency industry in the community, Bridging the Gap offers free, intensive solar-training courses to them.

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  • Driving change: the all-female garage shifting attitudes in northern Nigeria

    January 12, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto, Sokoto State

    An all-female mechanic staff is turning heads in Nigeria. Their workshop provides jobs to dozens of women who have limited work opportunities in the region. The female staff also breaks barriers in a society where only men have typically worked as professional mechanics.

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  • How vending machines are making life better for Kenyans

    December 14, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    Vending machines are dispensing basic grocery items such as milk and cooking oil in parts of Kenya. The machines allow patrons to customize their purchase instead of buying prepackaged sizes. This helps cash-strapped citizens who need to buy smaller portions. They’ve also created economic opportunities for entrepreneurs.

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  • Tulsa paid people $10k to move there and work remotely. Here's how it worked out

    December 02, 2021 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    The Tulsa Remote program recruiting remote workers to take up residence in the city has proven a success. The first cohorts were chosen in 2018 and since then, the initiative has seen the financial impact: $62 million in new labor income for the local economy, new jobs, and more than 90 percent of participants who stayed beyond the program deadline.

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  • Prisoners hope that education can erase a stigma

    November 26, 2021 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Cottonwood, Idaho

    Idaho's nine prisons have more than 30 postsecondary educational programs geared to helping incarcerated people get hired in career-track, technical jobs after their release from prison. The prisons focus on jobs in demand and woo potential employers with tours of their well-equipped classrooms. They also focus on education that produces certifications that carry more weight in industry. Studies show those credentials produce better odds against people returning to prison. Such programs nationwide have suffered from inadequate funding, but more federal money is in the pipeline.

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  • How single mothers in the remote areas of Kibuku district have been Financial empowered through Mushroom growing

    October 26, 2021 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kibuku

    A church in Uganda teaches single mothers and widows to grow mushrooms to increase their household incomes. They keep the mushrooms to use at home, sell them outright, and use them to create other food products like biscuits and soup powder to sell.

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  • Co-op restaurants: pipe-dream or practical solution?

    October 14, 2021 |

    The Counter |

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    Response Location: United States

    Worker-owned cooperative restaurants are giving employees ownership of, and a voice in, their workplace while removing the single-person dependency of the traditional restaurant structure.

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