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  • Computer predictions 'control' cholera

    August 27, 2018 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Yemen

    Cholera cases are dramatically reduced in areas that use the technology to predict where cholera cases are most likely to occur by monitoring rainfall. Health workers use this information to head off the disease and arrive first with sanitation supplies and education about prevention. In 2017 there were 50,000 cases in a week, this year there are only 2,500.

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  • The Anacostia River Is Mussel-ing Its Way To Clean Waters

    August 27, 2018 |

    DCist |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    After not failing the State of the River report card for the first time in ten years, supporters of the Anacostia River and The Anacostia Watershed Society devised a plan to continue efforts to restore the river to usability. Releasing seven baskets filled with thousands of mussels, the mussels act as natural filtering agents that simultaneously improve the health of the ecosystem.

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  • Voters OK'd Legal Aid for Tenants Facing Eviction — Now Comes the Hard Part

    August 27, 2018 |

    San Francisco Public Press |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Proposition F, passed in 2018 with an implementation deadline of July 2019, cements San Francisco as a key advocate in making legal representation accessible, especially in eviction cases. By passing a similar measure to one passed in New York, all renters now are eligible for legal counsel in eviction cases, regardless of their income level. The program is still in the early stages, but there is a potential for cost savings, too. With fewer evictions, there will likely be a lower demand for homeless and jail services.

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  • These Cottages Were Built to Defy Storms—and Pricey Rent—in the Florida Keys

    August 27, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    Affordable housing for Florida Keys residents is often vulnerable to damage or destruction by extreme weather. The Monroe County Land Trust has created housing that is both affordable for county residents and built to withstand floods and wind.

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  • Spare some change? Helping the poor in a cashless society

    August 27, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    A non-profit in Cambridge, England has created a mobile app to connect homeless people with donations, even when passersby do not carry cash they can donate. Still in its early phases, the app has helped 11 people reach their saving goals -- but critics argue that the app does little to help people see the homeless as humans, and might actually increase judgement and stigma.

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  • This Tactical Urbanist Is Pasting Narratives of Enslaved People All over Richmond

    August 27, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Untold RVA, a project developed by ‘tactical urbanist’ Free Egunfemi, intervenes in public space to foreground the history of slavery and the lives of the enslaved in Richmond. While work is being done to dismantle Richmond’s commemorations of the Confederacy, Egunfemi and other activists are working to ensure the people survived unimaginably oppression are not forgotten.

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  • Automated Fact-checking

    August 27, 2018 |

    BBC |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Technology has made it easier to fact-check speeches and interviews in real time. The organization Fullfact has made software that processes dialogue looking for claims and highlights whether those claims match verified data. The tools help fact-checkers contribute to public debate around the world.

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  • No crop left behind: NH Gleans harvests for food equity, access

    August 26, 2018 |

    Seacoast Online |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    NH Gleans is group of gleaners in New Hampshire working to ensure food security in their communities. The group gathers food that would otherwise go to waste and distributes it to local food kitchens, schools, and food pantries. In the last five years they have distributed almost half a million pounds of fruits and vegetables in a state where 1 in 10 people is food insecure.

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  • Locals Divided Between Diversion and Border Security

    August 26, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Pima County, Arizona, eased its jail overcrowding with reforms that reduced the jail population by 400 people. Its Community Collaborative put key players from the criminal justice system, plus formerly incarcerated people, on a team that created programs to divert cases from incarceration to treatment, screen people to detain fewer people before trial, and a new court to reduce the problems working people had in making court dates. A new jail was no longer needed. But a federal border program that gave the county incentives to make needless arrests undercut some of those reforms.

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  • Why more colleges should treat students like numbers

    August 26, 2018 |

    Washington Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    The University of North Florida combines an emphasis on predictive analytics with a very human case management system to identify students who are at risk of dropping out and intervene appropriately. In the coming years, will other universities follow suit?

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