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  • New cannabis dispensaries bring Sacramento closer to reaching social equity goals

    Ken Magri

    January 29, 2024 |

    The Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Sacramento’s Cannabis Opportunity and Racial Equity program is helping people who were adversely affected by discrimination during America’s war on drugs to start businesses in the regulated cannabis industry. Qualifying entrepreneurs receive wraparound support including funding and small-business education. So far, 10 dispensary licenses have been awarded to participants.

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  • Ciudad Bolívar en Bogotá, la nueva imagen de color de una antigua zona llena de tristeza

    Jair Díaz

    January 26, 2024 |

    Voice of America (VOA) |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    En Bogotá, una iniciativa llevada a cabo por jóvenes recupera, poco a poco, una zona catalogada como problemática y peligrosa. Se llama Ciudad Bolívar y, ahora, con sus grafitis reflejan el arte callejero.

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  • Campesinos nicaragüenses impulsan modelo de producción autosustentable en Costa Rica

    Donaldo Hernández

    January 26, 2024 |

    Voice of America (VOA) |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    En una zona rural de Costa Rica, un grupo de campesinos nicaragüenses forzados a salir de su país logró levantar una comunidad productiva. Rentaron varias manzanas de tierra para trabajar en la agricultura y la ganadería, como lo hacían en su natal Nicaragua. Informa Donaldo Hernández.

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  • Student loans: How a new White House forgiveness plan works

    Ira Porter

    January 26, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Biden-Harris administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan is helping more student loan borrowers achieve forgiveness. The program reduces monthly payments based on the person’s income and family size and covers interest costs to stop the overall amount from ballooning.

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  • NM endowment offers perpetual funding source for rural libraries

    Diana Alba Soular

    January 26, 2024 |

    Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    The New Mexico Rural Library Initiative advocated for an endowment fund to create a perpetual funding source for a group of community libraries in small, low-income towns. The money in the fund is invested, and the interest earned is distributed to the libraries each year.

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  • This German village is embracing integration

    Killian Bayer

    January 26, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Germany, Hebertshausen, Bavaria

    The Heberthausen Asylum Support Group helps incoming migrants and refugees find housing, jobs and learn the German language to integrate with society and work towards citizenship.

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  • More states offer health care coverage for certain immigrants, noncitizens

    Nada Hassanein

    January 26, 2024 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Collins, Colorado

    The OmniSalud program provides zero-premium health care coverage to low-income immigrants without documentation, helping make health care more accessible for those who normally struggle to get it due to their legal status. This year, the program expanded to 11,000 slots and hopes to continue growing.

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  • How An Englewood Artist And Activist Is Helping Black Families Keep Their Homes

    Atavia Reed

    January 25, 2024 |

    Block Club Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Englewood, Illinois

    unBlocked Englewood, in collaboration with the Chicago Bungalow Association, works to help Black people own and keep their longtime homes in their families by addressing the racist practices that prevent Black home ownership and helping provide funds to cover costly home repairs.

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  • Funding to help Spanish-speaking child care providers get licensed in Colorado set to end

    Yesenia Robles

    January 25, 2024 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    The Colorado Department of Early Childhood’s bilingual support team helps guide Spanish-speaking residents through the process of applying for a child care license, providing resources and training materials in applicants’ native language. The team is currently working with 69 professionals who are already licensed as well as 25 Spanish speakers in the midst of the application process.

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  • A Ranch, Rewilded: The Transformation of California's Next State Park

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    January 25, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A floodplain restoration project in California’s Central Valley is preventing flooding, replenishing groundwater, and providing habitat for wildlife. Most of the restoration work involved rewilding the land after removing the berms that protected the area from flooding when it was an agricultural field.

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