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  • The Bronx tries new way to cure violence as US shootings surge

    October 23, 2021 |

    Financial Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Bronx Rises Against Gun Violence is a city-funded crew of "violence interrupters," former gang members or the formerly incarcerated who have enough street credibility to de-escalate disputes in ways the police often cannot. Founded in 2014, BRAG works in three "hot" zones, two of which have gone murder-free for more than five years. Such groups, using the Cure Violence public-health approach to gun-violence reduction, occupy an "uneasy niche in public safety" between the streets and police.

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  • Is it time for Guaranteed Basic Income in Chicago?

    October 23, 2021 |

    WBEZ |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    A proposed program in Chicago could work to close the racial wealth gap through the use of a guaranteed basic income. Unlike Universal Basic Income, which has seen impressive results in places like Stockton, California, GBI provides monthly cash payments only to people who qualify.

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  • Blue forests are under threat. A quiet revolution could save them

    October 22, 2021 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: Madagascar

    Mangroves can store up six times more carbon than an area equal to the Amazon rainforest. However, they are rapidly declining, over the past century their population has been reduced by 30 to 50 percent. One nonprofit, Blue Ventures, is working with local communities to regenerate fisheries, which helps the mangroves. They're also helping local communities to manage their mangroves.

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  • Police Say Jiu-jitsu Can Make Them Less Violent During Arrests

    October 22, 2021 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Marietta, Georgia

    Police recruits in Marietta since 2019 have been required to be trained in the martial art of jiu-jitsu before they can go on patrol. Many officers stick with the training, and many other police departments are copying Marietta's policies. Supporters argue that jiu-jitsu, which involves no kicking or hitting, gives officers greater control and confidence in confrontations with potentially violent people. That, they claim, will lead to fewer uses of deadly force or Tasers. Marietta data shows that fewer officers have been injured, but members of the public get injured at about the same rate.

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  • Richland County's infant mortality rates show improvement; health officials say there's still more to be done

    October 22, 2021 |

    WOIO-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Richland County, Ohio

    To combat rising infant mortality rates, rural Richland County’s public health officials began a program to meet the needs of new and soon-to-be moms. The program provides maternal and infant care education as well as ensuring pregnant women have their basic needs met. One priority is making sure women get to their doctor’s appointments and have the transportation to do so. New moms receive a home visit from a public health nurse who delivers a portable crib along with information about infant care and safe sleep habits. The county hasn’t recorded a sleep-related death since starting the program.

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  • ¿Sabía que morir del cáncer colorrectal es casi 100% prevenible?

    October 22, 2021 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Un programa de tamizaje organizado para cáncer colorrectal en el sistema de salud de Costa Rica está mostrando resultados positivos en la prevención y detección temprana de este cáncer, lo que permitierá escalarlo aun tamizaje generalizado en el país.

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  • Joniškis rado būdą, kaip išgydyti nenorą dirbti: darbdavių ir bedarbių pasimatymai tapo privalomi

    October 22, 2021 |

    Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

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    Response Location: Lithuania, Joniškis

    Joniškis per mažiau nei metus beveik dvigubai sumažino ilgalaikį nedarbą. Individualios konsultacijos su darbo neturinčiais žmonėmis, susitikimai su potencialiais darbdaviais, įvairių socialinių paslaugų pritaikymas sudarant geriausias sąlygas dirbti - lėmė, kad šimtai joniškiečių vėl tapo dirbančiais ir užsidirbančiais savo pragyvenimui.

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  • A River's Right to Flow

    October 22, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    In order to preserve and protect rivers a new movement that grants rivers personhood rights is growing. In places like New Zealand and Oregon, where some of these measures have passed rivers have the right to flow without having to be used as a resource for consumption. In New Mexico, the state engineer approved a water lease submitted by the National Audobon Society. The lease allows about 13 million gallons of water to flow annually solely for its own sake, similiar to personhood rights. The creative approach is one way conservationists are fighting for water preservation.

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  • Medication and Recovery: Doctors Say Access to Critical Addiction Care is Difficult in Appalachia

    October 21, 2021 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Wise, Virginia

    The Health Wagon provides medical care to those experiencing addiction. The Health Wagon also provides services for those in recovery, including medications, counseling, and peer support groups in an effort to reduce relapses and overdose deaths which have skyrocketed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Tool for police reform rarely used by local prosecutors

    October 21, 2021 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States

    A growing number of prosecutors compile lists of police officers deemed untrustworthy witnesses, information they disclose to defense lawyers to prevent unjust criminal convictions. Called "Brady lists" or "do not call" lists, the practice is arguably a constitutional requirement for a fair trial. Broad disclosure of such a list in Philadelphia led to the dismissal of more than 2,000 convictions. Yet many prosecutors fail to keep such lists or ignore categories of misconduct like the use of excessive force. Police unions and privacy laws have helped block the effective use of Brady lists in some places.

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