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  • Former foster youth are eligible for federal housing aid. Georgia isn't helping them get it

    June 11, 2024 |

    WABE |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    The federal Foster Youth to Independence program provides housing vouchers for young people leaving the foster system to help them keep up with rent as they transition to living on their own. But states have to coordinate the funding with local housing agencies, and in Georgia, a lack of coordination led to only eight vouchers being distributed since the program began.

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  • Free air conditioners available again in Pa. through utility assistance program

    June 10, 2024 |

    WHYY |

    Radio |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania uses funding from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to provide air-conditioning units and repair units for people who would otherwise be unable to afford them.

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  • Peace Through Resolution: Iseyin's Journey To Overcoming Religious Strife

    June 07, 2024 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Iseyin, Oyo

    Following years of religious strife and violence, several groups gathered to create a peace treaty, protecting each group’s right to safe, religious celebration. Since the creation of the peace agreement in 2022, both the Oró and Egungun religious festivals have taken place without any incidents of violence.

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  • Geothermal system is a US first

    June 05, 2024 |

    Smart Cities Dive |

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    Response Location: United States, Framingham, Massachusetts

    Eversource Energy, a utility company in Massachusetts, installed a networked geothermal system that provides heat for residential and commercial buildings across the city of Framingham. The connected system allows excess heat from one building to be redirected to another that needs it. It’s the first of its kind in the United States.

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  • First-in-the-Nation Geothermal Heating and Cooling System Comes to Massachusetts

    June 04, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, Framingham, Massachusetts

    A utility company in Framingham, Massachusetts, worked with climate advocates to build a unique geothermal heating and cooling project that spans a whole neighborhood. A group of residential and commercial buildings share the infrastructure necessary to harness stable underground temperatures for heating and cooling, which reduces their greenhouse gas emissions and energy bills.

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  • New Jersey Ditched Cash Bail. Research Shows the Reform Didn't Increase Violence.

    June 04, 2024 |

    The Trace |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    New Jersey voters approved an amendment that removed cash bail so people would no longer be incarcerated because they couldn’t afford to pay it. Now, the courts evaluate each person’s risk to the public, of skipping trial, and of reoffense to determine whether they are held in detention until their trial.

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  • Envelope redesign helped Pa. voters avoid errors that cost them their vote

    May 31, 2024 |

    Votebeat Pennsylvania |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    After procedural errors such as missing dates and signatures caused a significant number of ballots to be rejected, Pennsylvania redesigned its mail ballots to emphasize the areas voters must fill out correctly for their ballot to be counted. Following the redesign, 9.6 percent fewer ballots were rejected for errors the new design tried to address, but other types of mistakes, such as voters not adding the year to the date, increased.

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  • A mother's calling: Inside the fight to make prison phone calls free

    May 31, 2024 |

    The 19th |

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    Response Location: United States, Hartford, Connecticut

    Advocates in Connecticut worked with the nonprofit Worth Rises to successfully campaign for a law that made phone calls and emails free in the state’s prison system. Expensive communication was a barrier for people who are incarcerated and their families, often impacting their mental health, relationships, and financial well-being.

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  • Using less of the Colorado River takes a willing farmer and $45 million in federal funds

    May 30, 2024 |

    KUNC |

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    Response Location: United States

    A federally-funded water conservation program, the System Conservation Pilot Program, is paying farmers in the Upper Colorado River Basin to not use the river’s water during the irrigation season. Leaving their fields dry for the program can earn them more money than they would get from growing crops.

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  • Dwindling Fish Populations Causing Conflicts over Fishing Grounds in Homa Bay

    May 30, 2024 |

    Science Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    To prevent conflicts between fishermen attempting to fish in the same areas in Rusinga Island, Kenya, a zoning method was created. Each group of fishermen are allowed on certain fishing grounds for 15 days, then they must rotate.

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