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  • Why West Virginia's Winning The Race To Get COVID-19 Vaccine Into Arms

    January 07, 2021 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    West Virginia managed to deliver approximately 90% of the COVID-19 vaccine doses allocated to the state within a week by "charting its own path to vaccine distribution." Rather than rely on chain stores as part of the vaccination plan every other state has done, the West Virginia government partnered with local pharmacies who were already serving rural populations and long-term care facilities to piggyback off of those already-established relationships.

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  • What has Germany done to inform and protect asylum seekers in the Covid-19 pandemic?

    January 07, 2021 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Germany

    When the coronavirus pandemic caused Germany to enter a period of lockdown, German authorities embarked on an effort to launch multilingual campaigns to make sure asylum seekers in the country had the information necessary to stay safe. The effort used podcasts, videocasts, and posters to disseminate information, and also relied on trusted community figures and NGOs to spread awareness, rather than the authories themselves.

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  • Outside/In: Everybody Knows Somebody

    January 07, 2021 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States

    The story of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act starts with a young legal aide to Sen. Joe Biden who did not identify as a feminist and knew little about the issues, but whose methodical building of a coalition and a set of arguments led to the historic passage of the law in 1994. VAWA was the first U.S. federal law to address comprehensively the ancient problem of gender-based violence. A key provision, authorizing federal civil lawsuits by victims, helped many women for six years until the Supreme Court struck it down. The law's other effects, still ongoing, include funding victim-aid groups.

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  • An alternative to arrest? Police turn to diversion for petty crimes

    January 07, 2021 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Prosecutors often make decisions about which criminal charges can be resolved by addressing underlying problems and holding people accountable for petty offenses without incarcerating them. Police-led diversion programs catch cases earlier in the criminal process. Various New Hampshire police departments and in neighboring Brattleboro, Vermont, use the approach in dozens of cases per year, sparing those people the burdens and shame of jail and conviction. The approach has been proven effective in Seattle’s LEAD program as a way to prevent rearrests and to make people's lives more stable.

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  • The U.S. Could Make New Cars a Lot Less Deadly

    January 06, 2021 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States

    American cars made since the early 1980s have carried ratings from the federal New Car Assessment Program, showing how risky they are to human life in a crash. NCAP ratings motivated a host of safety enhancements by manufacturers. Since the 1990s, similar programs in the European Union, China, Australia, Korea, and Japan have also rated vehicles' risks to pedestrians and bicyclists, and their fatalities have dropped. Not so in the U.S., where industry resistance has stalled expansion of NCAP ratings. Advocates hope the Biden Transportation Department will finally expand the program.

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  • ‘Slow Streets' Disrupted City Planning. What Comes Next?

    January 06, 2021 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    When city planners rushed early in the pandemic to close streets to automobile traffic in order to give residents a safe space to roam outdoors, they ended up learning lessons entirely apart from their original goals rooted in public health and traffic safety. In Durham, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Oakland, community groups pushed back at the cities' initial failures to consider the opinions of communities of color whose neighborhoods were affected by the changes. The pushback led to collaborations and modified plans that redefined the problems at issue and the ways to address them.

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  • This California city just ended chronic homelessness

    January 06, 2021 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Bakersfield, California

    The city of Bakersfield, California, was able to functionally end homelessness even with the onset of the pandemic, after implementing a data-driven strategy led by “Built for Zero.” The initiative focuses on frequent data collection which is then used to create a master command center that all agencies, shelters, and nonprofits work on in conjunction. Pooling resources and working together leads to clearer insight into where the most pressing need is and prevents unhoused people from falling through the cracks.

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  • Black Women Find Healing (But Sometimes Racism, Too) in the Outdoors

    January 06, 2021 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    To encourage more Black people to explore outdoors, individuals and organizations in Colorado are working to address underlying barriers such as access to transportation and gear, as well as fear and concerns of safety. Despite the groups still encountering "frustrating" incidents with other outdoor recreationalists, the movement has spread to other states and steadily attracted a growing community of members.

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  • Vying for vaccines, Jewish Israelis help fill near-empty clinics in Arab towns

    January 06, 2021 |

    The Times of Israel |

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    Response Location: Israel, Baqa al-Gharbiye, Haifa District

    In Israel, Arab communities have welcomed those from neighboring Jewish communities into their cities to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as a means of "helping firm up the sluggish response to the vaccination drive among Arabs." Using social media and communication apps to determine where doses are available, Jewish Iranians have been "flocking" to Arab towns which in turn has created a "vaccine-bolstering buzz" among Arabs and encouraged many to also get the vaccination after initial hesitation and reluctance.

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  • A Traveling, Pop-Up Library Holds Exclusively Books Written by Black Women

    January 06, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    A pop-up library is highlighting books written by Black women and has over 3,000 books in circulation with books from every genre. Founder Ola Ronke Akinmowo also travels to other states with several hundred books and does presentations on Black writers. The initiative has inspired similar projects in Detroit, Atlanta, Houston, and Los Angeles.

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