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  • La Fundación Sunnyside ayuda a familias de sus estudiantes a pagar la renta y cubrir gastos en la pandemia

    September 17, 2020 |

    La Estrella de Tucsón |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    La Fundacion Sunnyside, una organizacion sin fines de lucro, ha logrado recaudar recursos para ayudar a las familias de estudiantes del distrito escolar con necesidad economica durante la pandemia. Los servicios incluyen asistencia monetaria para pagar recibos de luz, agua, gas, necesidades basicas y pagos de vivienda. La fundacion ha logrado distribuir casi $22,000 entre 27 familias.

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  • Escuelas Públicas de Durham abren centros de aprendizaje para ayudar a los estudiantes con la enseñanza el línea

    September 17, 2020 |

    Enlace Latino NC |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    Los Centros de Aprendizaje como los en Durham brindan apoyo adicional a los padres y a los estudiantes que necesitan supervisión mientras las aulas están cerradas—un gran beneficio para familias ajustándose a la enseñanza con modalidad remota. Un límite es que los centros no son gratuitos para todos los estudiantes.

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  • Jersey City's Composting Program Expands During a Pandemic

    September 16, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Jersey City, New Jersey

    Since the Jersey City composting program, over 50,000 pounds of disposable waste has been used to fertilize home gardens, parks, and community gardens, instead of going into landfills. While scaling the program is a challenge due to the lack of infrastructure for integrating composting as part of the city’s waste removal, residents were eager to participate.

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  • How young poll workers may save Americans from Election Day chaos

    September 16, 2020 |

    USA Today |

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    Response Location: United States

    Organizations ran campaigns to recruit young people to work as poll workers, addressing shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hundreds of thousands of high school and college students, as well as recent graduates, signed up to fill the gaps. Social media provided an effective recruitment tool, and the diverse coalition called Power to the Polls, that includes MTV, Uber, Starbucks, and others, got 400,000 people to sign up. Some coalition partners offer paid time off to their employees for working at polls and states, such as Georgia, offer poll worker compensation, which was a draw for young people.

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  • This revolutionary housing reform bill out of Portland would bring relief to tons of Philadelphians

    September 16, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Portland's new policy allowing for multi-family homes resulted from a long campaign of coalition building to address a need for middle-income housing that often gets overlooked in many cities. Although the Residential Infill Project will not take effect until August 2021, its enactment offers cities like Philadelphia lessons in strategic policymaking that overcomes entrenched views at opposite ends of the income and class spectrum, from property owners concerned about declining home values and advocates for low-income housing concerned about gentrification.

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  • In a career born in her own grief, violence recovery specialist works at a Chicago hospital in a city under siege

    September 16, 2020 |

    Chicago Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Since the 2018 opening of a trauma-care center near the neighborhoods most affected by Chicago's gun violence, the University of Chicago Medical Center's Violence Recovery Program has helped survivors and victims' families to address the emotional harm that can go untreated when only physical harm is treated. Part of a growing field nationwide, hospital-based violence intervention, the program's nine specialists counsel people through the immediate shock of a gun injury or death. Then they address longer-term needs for services. The goals are both humanitarian and pragmatic, to head off more violence.

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  • Digging Our Way Out of the Hole: The Safe Alternative to Solitary Audio icon

    September 16, 2020 |

    The Crime Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Washington's prison system cut by half the number of people held in solitary confinement by reducing its security system's reliance on the method and helping former solitary detainees transition back to the general population in a healthier way. But a formerly incarcerated journalist who spent more than seven of his 27 years in prison locked in solitary confinement says the state's disciplinary system is still rooted in an overly punitive approach to mostly petty offenses. A system based on positive incentives to good behavior exists in North Dakota prisons, modeled in part on Norway's approach.

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  • What Germany teaches the world in a crisis

    September 16, 2020 |

    Financial Times |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Germany has weathered the pandemic with lower illness rates than its neighbors and a relatively strong economy thanks to leadership and responses that have evolved and helped the country thrive in the three decades since reunification. The author of the book "Why the Germans Do It Better: Notes from a Grown-Up Country" reports on the blend of governing, business, and social approaches to challenges – rooted in a concept of "social trust" in the state and society, and a steady, deliberate, caring mindset – that help the country confront a contagion, a recession, or a refugee crisis.

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  • How to Save Ballot Drop Boxes

    September 16, 2020 |

    Washington Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States

    Voting by mail will increase dramatically due to Covid-19 and drop boxes are one way to collect these ballots. Although fears of fraud have been unfounded, the GOP initiated lawsuits to block or limit drop boxes if they are not monitored so some states and districts place the boxes in government buildings and other places, such as libraries, that are staffed. While this slightly limits the hours that voters can drop off their ballots, it uses existing resources to provide supervision and increases voter confidence that their ballots will be received, especially among ongoing issues with the postal service.

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  • Masks effect hard to isolate, but officials say they're important layer of protection

    September 16, 2020 |

    Jackson Hole News & Guide |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

    Data collected from a handful of states where the idea of mask wearing has spread and been adopted, shows that after three weeks' time, the average daily growth rate of COVID-19 cases decreases. Although experts say that mask-wearing is not a solution on its own, the benefits of government mandates to wear a mask do still make an impact and the effectiveness only increases over time.

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