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  • To Help Teachers Buy A Home, This Denver Charter Is Taking A Page From California

    January 22, 2018 |

    Colorado Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Only one percent of Denver teachers have the means to buy a home within the city's limits. Landed, an organization that has located places for California educators to live, is now expanding to Colorado. Buyers provide 10 percent of the down payment, while Landed gives the other 10 percent. A representative from Landed explained, "It is not a loan – it is a shared investment."

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  • Chicago will give hotel workers panic buttons to prevent sexual assault

    January 22, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    A new ordinance in Chicago requires hotels to give panic buttons to employees working in rooms alone. 58 percent of the city’s hotel workers report having experienced flashing, groping, and other forms of sexual harassment from guests. 96 percent say a panic button would make them feel safer. The ordinance also gives workers the right to stop working and leave the area without facing retaliation from their employer.

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  • Domestic Violence court offers alternatives, hope for future

    January 22, 2018 |

    New Mexico In Depth |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    In Albuquerque, New Mexico, a domestic violence court offers funnels perpetrators into programs that offer counseling and other services to address the root causes of their behavior. Its two tracks focus on first-time offenders to short-circuit any escalation into chronic abuse, as well as those with multiple domestic violence charges. Judges work closely with participants to encourage them and call them out when they aren't meeting their obligations, and recidivism rates among those who complete the programs are far lower than those who do not.

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  • In a district losing money, students from afar fill the gap

    January 21, 2018 |

    Missoulian |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    After a 2010 mill closure led to school staff cuts and student departures and threatened to compromise the central role of the K-12 institution in the community, a small rural town on the outskirts of Missoula took a risk and opened its doors to out-of-district students. By welcoming over 100 new pupils through a screening process and benefiting from the resulting extra state funding, Frenchtown jumpstarted a district-wide revival.

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  • Tracking The Air We Breathe

    January 19, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    While asthma has a large impact—including being the most common reason for school absence—data on the disease can be difficult to collect. An app called Propeller has been developed which tracks medication use among people with asthma and analyzes usage against 30 different environmental factors that can impact air quality and respitory health.

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  • Hawaii is offering citizens money to care for their family—will they take it?

    January 19, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: United States, Honolulu, Hawaii

    Many people, often women, spend large amounts of their lives engaging in unpaid care work, dropping out of the labor market or taking a pay cut to care for their families. Hawaii has launched the Kupuna Caregivers Program to provide financial benefits for citizens who spend large amounts of time caring for others.

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  • This Map of New Orleans Might Save a Life

    January 19, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    By relying more heavily on data analysis, New Orleans officials decreased ambulance response time in many parts of the city from 12 minutes to 8 minutes. This is just one successful project of many from the non-profit group Results for America. The group works with local governments to use data and evidence to solve urban issues, and it has seen successes in New Orleans, Atlanta, Baltimore, and Philadelphia.

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  • A California City's Plan to Turn Indebted Millennials Into Local Doctors

    January 18, 2018 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Riverside, California

    Riverside County is maintaining its college graduates and instilling them with community spirit. University of California at Riverside has a new medical school that provides free education to young adults, who agree to stay in Riverside County and offer medical care in the underserved areas. UCR aims for maximum impact by sending its medical students into clinics to directly interact with communities in need.

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  • With Marijuana Now Legal, L.A. Goes Further to Make Amends for the War on Drugs

    January 18, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    After California legalized recreational use of marijuana, Los Angeles took the initiative even further to address the social and systemic inequity caused by the war on drugs of communities of color. The city undertook criminal justice reforms like clinics to help people expunge their records, and economic reforms like prioritizing those with past convictions to receive licenses to own and operate dispensaries. Furthermore, LA is practicing restorative justice by directing the tax revenue created by this sector back into the neighborhoods that were deeply affected in the past.

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  • The Health App That Beat Hurricane Harvey

    January 18, 2018 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    For patients with tuberculosis, it is vital that they take their medicine consistently and on schedule, even after they are no longer contagious, which can be time consuming and expensive for public health departments to manage. Teleconferencing has helped people remember to take their medications, even during a disaster like Hurricane Harvey.

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