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  • Una oportunidad para padres y madres de Arizona de avanzar en sus estudios

    October 20, 2021 |

    La Estrella de Tucsón |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Madres solteras y cuido de los niños pequeños para estudiar y poder ascender laboralmente. Una ley que debería ayudar y un programa piloto que ya lo hace a pequeña escala y ha demostrado resultados

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  • Iowa foster care system changes prove positive and effective

    October 20, 2021 |

    Street Roots |

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    Response Location: United States, Iowa

    Iowa in 2017 imposed new rules for the agencies that run group homes for children in foster care. The rules have greatly reduced the frequency with which children are moved from place to place far from their families, a common practice that can deepen the trauma they suffer. By paying differently for such care, the state reduced the incentive agencies had to keep their facilities full. Instead, they're working more closely with families to heal them and get children back to a healthier home life.

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  • Después de un fracaso, nuevo impulso abre puertas a la educación temprana en Tucsón

    October 20, 2021 |

    La Estrella de Tucsón |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Una iniciativa para invertir en educación temprana en Tucson fracasó en las urnas. A pesar de esa limitación, un consorcio público-privado ha logrado expandir el acceso a programas como Head Start.

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  • Sanitation solutions: How giving people trash bins made Baltimore cleaner

    October 20, 2021 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Baltimore’s green bin program shows there are relatively simple steps cities can take to tangibly improve the cleanliness of neighborhoods. The solution is also working in Philadelphia, through which people who live in the city are lidded trash cans and bins to store their garbage.

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  • Sanitation Solutions: How hidden cameras became Philly's fiercest weapon in the war on dumping

    October 19, 2021 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia has 300 surveillance cameras and, increasingly, sees them as central to its strategy of holding individuals accountable for illegal dumping. This has led to empty lots remaining garbage free, and setting examples of those who are caught and prosecuted.

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  • Biden plan: How tax credits might be the solution for family caregivers

    October 19, 2021 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Veterans Health Administration's Caregiver Support Program offers resources to family caregivers looking after veterans, including a monthly stipend, medical services, counseling and mental health care, respite care and coverage for travel expenses. The Program launched in 2011 and by 2014 about 15,600 caregivers had been approved for support — greatly exceeding the Program’s original estimate of 4,000 people.

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  • Biden's $400B plan to overhaul home care is 'more of a repair effort than a new direction'

    October 19, 2021 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    Several government programs and funding measures are emerging to improve home care options for families in need, such as increasing wages and benefit opportunities for providers. There are also nonprofits like All Things Home Care that provide transportation to area home care workers and represents its workers with a union to afford them better treatment to ensure those in need can still receive necessary care at home.

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  • Biden caregiving plan: Housing availability, politics hinder transition to more in-home care

    October 19, 2021 |

    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Money Follows the Person is a federal program that increases access to Medicaid funds for home and community care services for people transitioning out of institutional care. The program has helped more than 101,000 people move out of long-term care facilities into community or home living. The program has also helped people save money by cutting taxpayers’ Medicaid and Medicare bills by about 23% for each person who was moved out of a nursing home or other institution. Based on the program’s success, the current administration is reviewing plans to extend or make Money Follows the

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  • L'association El' Cagette, la qualité pour tous dans les assiettes

    October 19, 2021 |

    Médiacités |

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    Response Location: France, Roubaix

    À Roubaix, l’association El’ Cagette s’est lancé un défi : rendre les produits de qualité accessibles au plus grand nombre. Dans leur grand local où se pressent 435 bénéficiaires, ses membres ont trouvé le moyen de mutualiser leurs commandes pour manger à moindre prix et sans gâchis.

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  • Unionization could help home health care workers with wages, experts say

    October 19, 2021 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    SEIU represents about 500,000 home care workers nationwide, offering union benefits and protections like individual health care, a retirement program, raises and better wages, additional training and access to personal protective equipment. For many — especially those working in Washington, California, New York and Illinois — unionization is a large part of the solution for home caregivers to receive representation and a living wage.

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