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  • Sustaining the tempo; How Kano is succeeding in its fight against Polio

    January 27, 2020 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano, Kano

    Kano State in Nigeria has implemented a strategy to increase the likelihood of children receiving necessary vaccinations to reduce cases of polio. The strategy, which included enhanced training on administering the vaccinations, taking the vaccines directly to homes and "collaboration between policy makers and traditional leaders," has resulted in no cases of polio for the last five years.

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  • A $100 Million Bet That Vacationland Can Be a Tech Hub, Too

    January 27, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Maine

    Universities situated in the right market have proven to jumpstart innovation and technological hubs across the country, from San Diego to Boston. Now, Portland, Maine is testing out the economic impact and growth of a new branch of Northeastern Univeristy that focuses on machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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  • A rewilding triumph: wolves help to reverse Yellowstone degradation Audio icon

    January 25, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States, Wyoming

    Rewilding wolves rebalances ecosystems. Following the 1970s Endangered Species Act (ESA), efforts to reintroduce wolves into the Yellowstone National Park have proven successful, helping to reduce land degradation from overpopulated grazing animals. The effort began in 1995 with the introduction of wolves captured in Canada, with the help of Canadian agencies. Today, the wolves keep the park’s biodiversity in balance and attract tourists.

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  • Big Impact with a Small Footprint

    January 24, 2020 |

    QNotes Carolinas |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The Beloved Community Village, a tiny-home community in Denver, Colorado, serves as an example of a successful housing model for people in insecure housing situations. The community takes a shared living approach and requires residents to participate in community events without violence, drugs, or other harmful behaviors. Now, Charlotte officials look to the Beloved Community Village as an example that can help as they work to combat homelessness in their own community.

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  • Books behind bars: Pilot Pell Grant program helps inmates look toward the future

    January 24, 2020 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

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    Response Location: United States, Suffield, Connecticut

    At Connecticut’s MacDougall-Walker Correctional Institution, people experiencing incarceration have the opportunity to participate in postsecondary classes, even completing a certificate or degree. They’re able to do this because of the Second Chance Pell pilot program, started in 2015, which offers financial aid for inmates to access education. With bipartisan support, there’s hope that the pilot program will grow, as current research shows how the programming reduces recidivism and saves tax dollars.

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  • Lake Oswego School District Uses Threat Assessment System to Prevent Student Harm

    January 24, 2020 |

    Lake Oswego Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Lake Oswego, Oregon

    Oregon's Lake Oswego School District takes a preventative approach to gun violence in its schools. The district's threat assessment team meets with students who have raised red flags, assesses the situation, and, if appropriate, connects them with mental health resources.

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  • As Seattle Seeks to Tax Amazon (Again), What Can It Learn From California?

    January 24, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In 2018, a per-employee tax levied on Amazon and other Seattle businesses making over $20 million a year was struck down by council members with unfavorable polling. In 2020, that same referendum is being brought back to life with renewed support. This article compares Seattle's past failures to San Francisco's current success in implementing a tax inspired by Seattle's. The processes differ in many areas, and this article considers what would happen if Seattle now followed someone else's lead.

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  • From trash to treasure: the South African community taking ownership of waste

    January 24, 2020 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Melkhoutfontein

    A community in South Africa tackles waste management and unemployment at the same time by hiring workers to find new uses for waste that would otherwise be burned or dumped in a landfill. Some workers - most of whom are local women - make mosaics and other art out of plastics; others make hangers, stools, and more out of discarded materials.

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  • The Nazis and the Trawniki Men

    January 23, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    For 28 years, the U.S. Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations, stripped more than 100 people of U.S. citizenship and deported them for their direct participation in Nazi war crimes. The most successful Nazi-hunting operation in the world, OSI’s painstaking investigations – historical research combined with criminal sleuthing and international diplomacy – pried needed records from other nations’ files in order to prove that post-war refugees who ended up in America had immigrated under false pretenses, hiding their true role in the Holocaust’s extermination camps.

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  • How to stop youth violence: Role models, mentors, glimpses of life's possibilities

    January 23, 2020 |

    syracuse.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Syracuse, New York

    At Syracuse, New York’s Hillbrook Detention Center for youth, the Thinking For A Change program provides kids with classes – taught by mentors with similar backgrounds – like conflict resolution, anger management, problem-solving, and how to recognize signs of abuse. The program is part of a national shift toward rehabilitation and community-based programming, which is associated with a decrease in the number of youth experiencing incarceration.

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