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  • Farms Race

    October 15, 2018 |

    Logic Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    True to hacker form, an MIT team wants "open-source agriculture," a technology that takes food production back from big corporations and makes it widely accessible. To this end, the OpenAg community, comprised of coders, horticulturalists, engineers, plant scientists, and teachers, is developing food computers. But the technology is still being developed, and the economics don't yet pencil out for profitability.

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  • How one state is using incentives instead of penalties to boost child support payments

    October 15, 2018 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Washington State is using behavioral science and kinder, more compassionate communications to help encourage full payment of child-support from non-custodial parents. With their efforts, including friendlier communications and meeting reminders, hundreds more parents have been meeting child-support workers.

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  • How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations

    October 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Lake Worth, Florida

    GEDmatch started as a "casual side project," but investigators have been using the genealogy website to solve murder and sexual assault cases, opening a new set of both opportunity and ethical questions. The site is free to all, so investigators have used it to match DNA information and find suspects using family connections - a strategy that concerned the founders of the site at first, although they've come around to the idea after seeing the positive impact it has had.

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  • Women in Kenya Change Their Lives Through Basic Literacy Skills

    October 15, 2018 |

    The Epoch Times |

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    In a small town outside the Kenyan capital, a school offers adult education classes. Business and language courses have helped women to maximize the profits of their businesses and other entrepreneurial ventures.

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  • This 24-year-old lawsuit could radically alter public education in North Carolina

    October 15, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Twenty years ago, five, poor, rural counties sued the state of North Carolina for failing to provide students with a good education, and won. In 1997 the Chief Justice Supreme Court judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in the case known as Leandro v. State. However, the decision wasn’t really enforced by the government, and until 2017 a court appointed agency was hired to investigate the state. “Leandro sets the bar but you still need to have elected officials, school officials and court officials willing to uphold it,”

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  • A small state with big ideas on rehabilitating female prisoners

    October 14, 2018 |

    Chicago Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Vermont

    Across the United States, women statistically receive a higher rate of disciplinary tickets for minor infractions compared to their male counterparts. In Vermont, however, where corrections falls under the Department of Human Services, employees of the correctional facilities are trained in gender-informed practices to better suit their responses to women and men offenders.

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  • Changing the environment in Iowa's prisons to change results for women Audio icon

    October 14, 2018 |

    Chicago Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Mitchelville, Iowa

    The Iowa Correctional Institution for Women has reformed how inmates are treated, adapting approaches informed by gender and past trauma. A new campus provides private counseling suites and a mental health unit, larger cells with light controls and a visitation area with play space and a garden so women can engage with their children. Disciplinary policies have also shifted toward building women up for returning to society rather than automatic discipline for small infractions.

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  • A new house for $286,000? With sweat equity and creative financing, a nonprofit developer aids veterans

    October 14, 2018 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Clarita, California

    After serving the military, plenty of families struggle to buy homes. In Southern California, that’s changing with help from non-profit Homes 4 Families, which acquires funding from the government, good development deals, and donations in order to build communities of homes that are affordable to veterans. The veterans put in 500 hours of labor and are rewarded with homes they can afford in a neighborhood of families with whom they share a common bond.

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  • Unequal Discipline Audio icon

    October 14, 2018 |

    Chicago Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Illinois

    In 2017, Illinois passed a bill to re-establish the Women’s Correctional Services Division in response to the disproportionate level of discipline handed out to female inmates and in an effort to create more trauma-informed practices. An initial audit showed declines in discipline and there is now mandatory training for correctional officers on working with female inmates. But the main reform champion retired after the law passed and the state wouldn’t provide updated data on discipline.

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  • Stopping US teens from smoking, one town at a time

    October 14, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States

    Activists hope to reduce the number of young smokers by raising the legal smoking age to 21. Instead of working for a national change, they're tackling the issue one small town at a time.

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