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  • What Would a World Without Prisons Look Like?

    March 06, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Deanna Van Buren and her nonprofit firm Designing Justice/Designing Spaces use architecture to advance social justice and criminal-justice-reform ideas, designing workplaces, meeting places, and homes nationwide founded on the notion of "what a world without prisons could look like." The firm's projects, often planned with input from the people directly affected, have included privacy-enhancing temporary living units for people recently released from prison, a "peacemaking" space in Syracuse, N.Y., and two of the first restorative-justice meeting places for crime victims and those who harmed them.

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  • [크랩] IQ 180, 39세 장관이 해결한 대만 ‘마스크 대란'

    March 05, 2020 |

    KBS 뉴스 |

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    Response Location: Taiwan

    신종 코로나바이러스 확산 초기, 마스크 대란에 대처하기 위해 대만 정부는 '마스크 실명제', '마스크 맵' 서비스 등을 주도적으로 시행하며 위기에 적극적으로 대응하는 모습을 보여주었습니다.

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  • The College President Who Simply Won't Raise Tuition

    March 05, 2020 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, West Lafayette, Indiana

    Since 2013, Purdue University has frozen its annual tuition at $9,992, a stark contrast to the trend of ballooning costs at most U.S. institutions of higher education. The president has focused on savings generated from "a couple of big things, and lots of little things.” However, some have expressed concern that this model sacrifices too much and has changed the once-collaborative culture of the college.

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  • “We Are Not Lost Causes”

    March 05, 2020 |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    In Rochester, NY, the Center for Teen Empowerment, a nonprofit that trains youth in community organizing, personal development, and anti-violence, is working to bring kids off the street and into safety. The program, which started in Boston, is centered on four ideas: jobs (paying the youth hired as organizers), teamwork, agency (letting them build their own activist agendas), and peer influence. While hard to evaluate because of its situational, qualitative nature, city officials, including law enforcement, point to the program as a factor in the decrease in violence across the city.

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  • South Korea has tested 140,000 people for the coronavirus. That could explain why its death rate is just 0.6% — far lower than in China or the US.

    March 05, 2020 |

    Business Insider |

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    Response Location: South Korea

    South Korea's nationwide coronavirus testing measures are showing that the death rate for the virus may not be as high as initially reported while also offering lessons to other countries about the best practices for mitigating epidemics. Although the United States is now beginning to utilize partnerships to address limited testing procedures, South Korea's response allowed for patients to be diagnosed an an earlier and faster rate.

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  • How organizations, lawsuits are fighting voter suppression in Texas

    March 05, 2020 |

    Corpus Christi Caller Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Civil rights groups used a lawsuit and a vigilant network of activists to defeat an attempt to purge qualified voters from the list of Texas' eligible voters and to guard against ongoing attempts to disenfranchise naturalized citizens and other people of color. In 2019, the Texas Secretary of State's office compiled a list of what it said were as many as 100,000 illegally registered voters. Countering claims of fraud and threats of prosecution, activists forced the state to abandon the effort and oust the secretary of state. A study shows at least 17 million names have been cut from voter lists nationwide.

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  • His Daughter Died Of An Opioid Overdose. So He Built A Treatment Facility In Her Name

    March 05, 2020 |

    American University Radio (WAMU) |

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    Response Location: United States, Hagerstown, Maryland

    Named after his daughter who overdosed, a former narcotics police officer created Brooke's House, a women's treatment facility in Maryland. Combining methodologies and using multiple approaches, the program works to help residents achieve sobriety through counseling and treatment.

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  • Virus Testing Blitz Appears to Keep Korea Death Rate Low

    March 04, 2020 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: South Korea, Daegu

    Despite avoiding mass bans on citizen movement, South Korea has managed to mitigate the number of reported cases for coronavirus after implementing broad testing protocols. Having learned what didn't work during a previous outbreak of a respitaroy illness, the country "created a system to allow rapid approval of testing kits for viruses which have the potential to cause pandemics."

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  • Stemming the tide

    March 04, 2020 |

    Explore Big Sky |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    As a neurological disorder known as chronic wasting disease spreads among wildlife herds like deer and elk in Montana, the state is trying to increase testing of the fatal disease and understand if it can be transmitted to humans. By learning from the failures in Wyoming, a state agency offered free statewide testing to hunters resulting in new positives in areas that they might have missed, which will help them track how the disease spreads across the landscape.

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  • When a Medical Diagnosis is Complex, A Navigator Who Looks Like the Patient Can Make All the Difference

    March 04, 2020 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

    Patient navigation, which uses community members as health care informants, is helping to break down social and cultural barriers to accessing care in a community in North Carolina. The navigators are "population-focused," meaning they work in the communities they are passionate about and can relate to in order "to provide culturally appropriate assistance." Since the implementation of the program, doctors at Wake Forest Baptist Health Comprehensive Cancer Center have reported that more patients are seeking care proactively.

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