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  • How to Fight a Soaring Drug Price: Innovate

    February 28, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Milbridge, Maine

    Throughout the country, issues of health care exclusivity and rising drug prices are being addressed with creative solutions. Innovating new medicines and medicine deliver systems, such as an alternative EpiPen, is proving to be a helpful way to work around these surging prices.

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  • How one woman is winning the fight against food waste

    February 27, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

    Selina Juul is a woman from Denmark who is spearheading an incredible multi-pronged approach to combatting food waste. She partners with local grocery stores to change sales tactics wrote a leftovers cookbook, partnered with 3 governments to make plans, and more. Juul has been credited by the Danish government for helping the country reach their statistic of cutting food waste by 25% in 5 years.

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  • How Wildwood schools provide a crucial safety net for struggling families

    February 27, 2017 |

    The Press of Atlantic City |

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    Response Location: United States, Wildwood, New Jersey

    The Wildwood School District has implemented programs during and after school hours to help provide nutritious meals to students living with hunger and poverty, while also teaching the children invaluable skills such as sewing and gardening to help create better future opportunities.

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  • School nurse's supplies include food, toothbrushes and coats

    February 26, 2017 |

    The Press of Atlantic City |

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    Response Location: United States, Wildwood, New Jersey

    In low-income districts, the school nurse is often a family’s first health care provider, and the role at places like Wildwood High School and Glenwood Avenue School has expanded to provide everything from warm coats and food donations for children and their families living in hunger.

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  • Homeless Find a Champion in Canada's Medicine Hat

    February 26, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Canada, Alberta

    The average homeless person costs taxpayers 120,000 Canadian dollars a year, while it takes just 18,000 Canadian dollars to house someone. In Alberta, Canada, the “housing first” strategy gets homeless people into homes regardless of whether they are mentally ill, alcoholic, or even drug abusers. The strategy almost eliminates homelessness.

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  • The Voter Lottery

    February 26, 2017 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Voter turnout is a problem around the world, especially in local elections and among minority groups. But a small group of academics and activists in the US are experimenting with a new way to encourage people to turn up to vote: a lottery. Every voter is entered and one lucky winner gets a big cash prize, eliminating the risk of bribery and bought votes.

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  • Where busing works

    February 25, 2017 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Hartford, Connecticut

    As tensions over race and education continue to be compounded by growing economic inequality and political rhetoric, one school in Connecticut bridges an otherwise widening divide. Schools like R.J. Kinsella Magnet School of Performing Arts - once the poorest and one of the most racially segregated schools in the state - are inspiring voluntary desegregation by offering successful magnet programs and busing students safely and efficiently across neighborhoods. The successful demonstration of integration in Kinsella is serving as a positive model for other schools around the nation.

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  • Some single parents are turning to GoFundMe as a way to pay for college

    February 24, 2017 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    Single parents are increasingly using GoFundMe to raise money for their own college costs. However, as GoFundMe has started to acknowledge, "crowdfunding is more difficult when one’s crowd doesn’t have extra funds." The platform is brainstorming ways to spread the word about individual campaigns and make donations to individual campaigners tax-deductible.

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  • Volunteers With No Medical Training Are Fighting Diseases The World Ignores

    February 24, 2017 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Mozambique

    In Nampula, Mozambique, people living in remote, rural communities do not seek medical attention when they get sick because of myths that diseases are caused by spirits. So a non-profit, Malaria Consortium, is training ordinary people, to teach others about the cause and treatments of common illnesses thus motivating the villagers to seek care at health facilities.

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  • M-Pesa: Kenya's mobile money success story turns 10

    February 24, 2017 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi, Nairobi Area

    Ten years ago, Vodafone's Safaricom launched "M-Pesa" a mobile-phone based payment system designed to ease transfer of money in Kenya among individuals and small businesses. With a maximum transaction of 70,000 Kenyan shillings ($675 USD), M-Pesa markets "to the base of the pyramid:" not only has M-Pesa taken root in more than ten other countries, but it counts 18 million active users in Kenya and, through access to a mobile monetary payment system, has lifted 2% of Kenyan households out of extreme poverty.

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