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  • Vocational boom: Enrollment surges at career technical schools as students seek skills, jobs, financial stability

    November 07, 2025 |

    Daily Hampshire Gazette |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Vocational and technical education programs offer students the best of both worlds, giving them hands-on experience in career fields of interest while also requiring academic rigor in the classroom. In Massachusetts, which is currently expanding funding for schools to upgrade their facilities, enrollment in technical schools rose 24 percent over 15 years, with many schools requiring a waitlist for interested students.

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  • The Rustic Farms Where French Prisoners Wrap Up Their Sentences

    November 03, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: France, Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique

    The Moyembrie farm program allows French inmates to spend their final 9-12 months of incarceration working on a farm with social worker support rather than in traditional prison. This strategy has resulted in only 1 in 10 being sent back to prison and over half finding employment or training within three months of release—compared to France's national recidivism rate of over 60% within five years.

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  • To protect angel sharks, a Libyan biologist collaborates with fishing communities

    November 03, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Libya

    A Libyan marine biologist built trust with fishing communities through dialogue and education about endangered angel sharks. This led fishers to stop deliberately targeting the species and voluntarily release caught sharks, while researchers identified a vital breeding ground.

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  • Well Into the Future

    November 03, 2025 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Smith Valley, Nevada

    Nevada launched a $25 million pilot program in 2023 that pays farmers to voluntarily retire groundwater rights in over-pumped basins. The state-funded buyback purchases water rights at competitive rates and retires them to reduce unsustainable groundwater extraction, with the help of local organizations like the Walker Basin Conservancy. Since forming, the program retired approximately 22,500 acre-feet of groundwater rights, and the program's success led to unanimous bipartisan legislation to expand it.

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  • Adiós al carbón: historia real tras la transición que prometió ser justa

    November 02, 2025 |

    Datadista |

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    Response Location: Spain

    España cerró sus minas no rentables a final de 2018, prometiendo una transición justa para las poblaciones afectadas por la descarbonización.

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  • Diabetes care on wheels brings help to people who need it most

    November 01, 2025 |

    CBC |

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    Response Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta

    A mobile diabetes clinic in Calgary brings comprehensive healthcare directly to people experiencing homelessness or low income at community health centers. The team provides services including foot care, retinal scans, blood and urine screening with immediate results, dietary counseling, and connections to housing and mental health programs. The "one-stop-shop" model eliminates the need for patients to travel to multiple appointments, ensuring they get the care they need.

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  • The Country Making Orphanages Obsolete

    October 31, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Republic of Moldova

    In 2007, Moldova launched a National Strategy to reduce the number of children living in orphanages by providing more support to disadvantaged families, creating more inclusive education programs, and expanding the country’s foster care capacity. As of now, only about 700 children remain in orphanages.

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  • 'Real-life science experiment' fills critical legal gaps in rural SD

    October 31, 2025 |

    South Dakota News Watch |

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    Response Location: United States, Burke, South Dakota

    The Rural Attorney Recruitment Program (RARP) addresses critical shortages of legal services in rural areas by providing attorneys $12,513 annually for five years to practice in communities under 3,500. The program has 36 participating attorneys, including 19 who have completed the program and 14 who continue to practice in their rural communities beyond their five-year obligations. Since the program launched, participating attorneys have provided over 300 hours of pro bono work worth more than $30,000 in some counties.

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  • Fab Youth Philly gives teens first-time job experiences otherwise in short supply

    October 28, 2025 |

    Kensington Voice |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Fab Youth Philly’s Play Captains program hires teens in the summer to lead play groups on multiple streets throughout the city, leading games and activities like science experiments and storytime. Since 2017, the group has supported over 500 teens, providing many of them with their first jobs. Data shows that participating in the program leads to more on-time high school graduations, better work habits, reduced summer slide and improved employability and family finances.

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  • This Walkable Gathering Space Has Transformed a City's Main Street

    October 27, 2025 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

    The city of Lancaster invested nearly $12 million to create a walkable mixed-use development area along a main thoroughfare, with nine blocks of businesses and community spaces such as a library and a museum. The development has generated more than $270 million in economic output and residents say the area is now welcoming and encourages a sense of community.

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