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  • Welcome to Welfare Utopia

    May 31, 2016 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Salem, Oregon

    States deal with poverty and employment differently, depending on their state legislature and, historically, their racial composition. Oregon is a predominantly white state with some of the most generous welfare and employment programs available in the union. Giving states the option of flexibility with their anti-poverty programs can cause some to reduce their safety nets, but Oregon serves as a model for bipartisan cooperation on generous welfare and employment reforms.

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  • Can Behavioral Economics Make Better Citizens? We'll Soon Find Out

    May 31, 2016 |

    Forbes |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Ideas42 is an organization which uses behavioral economics to transform New York inhabitants to become better citizens by taking advantage of peoples' "loss adversity". The city has redesigned summons forms to remind people clearly of what they might lose if they do not respond. They are also working on other city communications to increase response rates.

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  • How Science Could Help Prevent Police Shootings

    May 31, 2016 |

    Mother Jones |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    A new tool that studies human behavioral data is being piloted in an effort to prevent police abuse and violence. Using data kept by individual police departments, this new program studies officers’ history of past problems, amount of on-the-job stress and trauma, and shift times as possible predictors of violence and abuse. While the research is still in early stages, it has already led to changes in some police departments, like re-thinking how to better equip officers to deal with emotional incidents like domestic violence.

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  • Researchers work to make milk greener

    May 31, 2016 |

    Minnesota Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Morris, Minnesota

    Researchers at the University of Minnesota's West Central Research and Outreach Center are looking for ways to make producing dairy milk less energy intensive - something consumers are increasingly demanding. They have had some initial success in increasing efficiency using techniques such as capturing heat from the milk to heat water and experimenting with solar and wind to offset some electricity use.

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  • Researchers around the world are learning from indigenous communities. Here's why that's a good thing.

    May 31, 2016 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: Canada, Sahtú Region, Northwest Territories

    In the Northwestern Territories of Canada, wildlife biologists received unfavorable critiques from indigenous communities for how they were going about with their caribou studies. By forming relationships with the indigenous peoples, they were able to change their approach and learn from the local communities about what was already working.

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  • Climate change is rewiring government-citizen relationships

    May 30, 2016 |

    Newsweek |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    As climate change drastically alters the land, sea, and how humans subsist in the face of a changing environment, governments are finding that traditional methods of development are no longer sufficient or sustainable. To adapt, governing bodies around the world are turning to their citizens - especially those most at-risk to the effects of climate change - to lend their ideas and experiences to ensure better, more sustainable development for the future.

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  • What One District's Data Mining Did For Chronic Absence

    May 30, 2016 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Grand Rapids, Michigan

    Three years after Grand Rapids Public Schools (GRPS) began its efforts to improve attendance rates, almost 4,000 kids who were formerly chronically absent are no longer. Educators publicly shared attendance data with business owners, parents, and other schools, helping to hold students accountable and keep them in the classroom.

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  • From adversaries to allies in the fight for forest health

    May 29, 2016 |

    The Taos News |

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    Response Location: United States, Taos, New Mexico

    Locals around Taos, New Mexico take control over forest thinning efforts as part of The Collaborative Stewardship program. Rather than import larger thinning companies to work on local forests, the program sells plots of land to residents with timber experience, and these locals have a year to thin their allotted forest area.

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  • Seeing the forest through the trees?

    May 29, 2016 |

    The Pueblo Chieftain |

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    Response Location: United States, Blanca, Colorado

    A new timber mill in Costilla County could majorly improve the forest health of the greater region by thinning undergrowth to reduce risk of wildfires, curbing the spread of invasive insects, and decreasing the demand for water in the face of drought. The mill could also create jobs and further economic development for the area.

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  • Sharing the shortage

    May 27, 2016 |

    The Taos News |

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    Response Location: United States, Talpa, New Mexico

    Farmers and land owners in the Rio Grande del Rancho region are using a collaborative, community-based approach fostered by acequias to ensure better sharing of water resources in times of scarcity.

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