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  • How one wealthy Manhattan school is fighting inequality

    October 14, 2016 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Manhattan’s School 2 School program raises money from wealthy schools to support the schools in low-income communities. Using the crowdfunding site Donors Choose, parents from Manhattan’s PS 87 school raise funds for requests from teachers at different elementary schools in the Bronx.

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  • How a 27-Year-Old College Dropout Is Simplifying Health Care

    October 13, 2016 |

    Fortune |

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    Response Location: United States

    Navigating the health care industry can be difficult, especially when care is unexpectedly necessary and seeking treatment is reactive instead of proactive. Rally Health, a digital health company, is trying to change this phenomenon by creating better efficiency and patient engagement.

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  • Prisoners With Hep C Get Cured In Some States But Not Others

    October 13, 2016 |

    FiveThirtyEight |

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    Response Location: United States, Pennsylvania

    Currently, debates are ongoing about what to do with the substantial number of US prisoners with Hepatitis C. This piece highlights successful legal action in Pennsylvania that ensured costly treatment for prisoners.

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  • 3 regional transit systems Metro Detroit can learn from

    October 13, 2016 |

    Metromode |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Detroit is a large city that doesn’t have a regional transit system. Other cities such as Cleveland, St. Louis, and Las Vegas have resolved their some of their transportation needs and are examples to learn from as Detroit works to reduce congestion and connect people to the city.

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  • This man has found a wonderful way to help people through their darkest times. It starts with tea.

    October 12, 2016 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: England, Blackpool

    The key to ending social issues such as depression and homelessness may lie in prevention rather than reaction, and some non-traditional methods outside of the professional or government sphere are leading the way. Camerados is an organization in England that facilitates spaces where people can connect face-to-face. By empowering individuals to serve one another using their unique strengths or skills, they find a sense of purpose and community that helps avert crisis.

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  • Court Innovations' Matterhorn Allows People to Handle Court Cases Online

    October 12, 2016 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Low-income people often miss out on court dates because they cannot afford to miss work or leave their children. Michigan and Ohio courts have incorporated the Matterhorn “online adjudication system” to handle simple cases so individuals can participate through the Internet. The system also offers the advantage of having “less bias” than in-person trials, because the race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status of the individual is protected online.

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  • How Texas — and the U.S. — Might Get to Zero Suicides

    October 12, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors is a group that engages in "postvention," or comforting and supporting survivors of suicide. Survivors are more likely to be depressed or committed suicide themselves. Groups like LOSS connect this at-risk population with support and services.

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  • How Freelancers Are Reinventing Work Through New Collective Enterprises

    October 11, 2016 |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    With millennials unable to find regular work, people of color and women tired of discrimination during the hiring process, the number of people turning to freelancing has been growing. Networks like Enspiral and Upwork, are facilitating this shift by assisting in the search for employers, creating partnerships with other freelancers, creating unions that fight for living wages and work to fix other sundry issues that freelancers face.

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  • For Better Citizens, Scratch and Win

    October 11, 2016 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: China

    In China, rampant sales tax fraud was addressed with a unique solution. In an attempt to increase transparent sales and receipt use, the government implemented a scratch lottery system on receipts. This solution, using lottery systems to increase turnout and engagement, is being used across the globe, even in the United States to help increase voter turnout.

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  • Ethical arguments won't end factory farming. Technology might.

    October 11, 2016 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Bruce Friedrich, the Executive Director of The Good Food Institute in Washington, DC, thinks that we're wasting resources raising animals for food products. He thinks the answer is creating a product that doesn't replace meat, but rather competes with it.

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