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16 November 2015
Immokalee, Florida, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Sexual harassment and assault, and almost non-existent job security, are just some of the problems that plague migrant workers in the United States. A decade-long farm worker-led effort to push corporations to demand ...
12 October 2015
Swampscott, Massachusetts, United States
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800-1500 Words
A Boston suburb combined its high school and senior center to create a hub for the community. The result has saved space and forged interesting friendships.
21 July 2015
United Kingdom
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Under 800 Words
The Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH), a charity dedicated to improving health and wellbeing in society, has outlined plans for different occupations – including cleaners, hairdressers, postal workers, and restau...
11 July 2015
Provo, Utah, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The life-saving vitamin folic acid is added to flour in the United States, but Hispanics tend to eat little flour. Adding folic acid to corn flour would reduce birth defects in Hispanic women in the U.S.
30 June 2015
California, United States
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800-1500 Words
A California-based nonprofit is working to solve the state's teacher shortage by bringing private-sector professionals who have worked in science, technology, engineering, and math fields into public school classrooms...
PBS NewsHour
Amy Scott
16 June 2015
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Under 800 Words
Cincinnati is making efforts to close the achievement gap between poor children and more advantaged students by fighting the effects of poverty. Lower Price Hill’s Oyler School is part of a growing national movement t...
5 June 2015
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The lack of access to healthy food has always been a problem for the financially unstable. Food stamps can now be used to buy fresh produce at farmers markets, but greater success could be achieved by getting grocery ...
14 May 2015
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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800-1500 Words
Brown's Super Stores operates seven profitable supermarkets in traditionally food desert neighborhoods in Philadelphia. The founder says it's because they brought together a group of community leaders and asked them e...
29 April 2015
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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Under 800 Words
For those addicted to opioids, getting treatment can take a long time because not all emergency rooms offer buprenorphine and counseling interventions. Yale-New Haven Hospital has shown that if patients receive bupren...
27 April 2015
Gonzales, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Half of U.S. farm workers are Hispanic, but few make it to leadership positions. A historically white non-profit, FFA, is creating equal education programs in California to increase leadership opportunities for minori...
22 April 2015
Bowling Green, Ohio, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Police misconduct is one of the most hotly debated issues in the US today. An interview with an ex-cop-turned-criminologist about how and the frequency with police officers are charged with crimes - both on and off-duty.
30 March 2015
Los Angeles, California, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
A unique program at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center is combining prenatal care with psychiatric treatment for low-income women who might otherwise not seek help for mental health issues during pregnancy.
Shareable
Nathan Schneider
21 December 2014
United States
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Over 3000 Words
Entrepreneurs have tried to avoid putting their projects in the hands of venture capitalists fearing loss of control of the project direction and vision. The sharing community combats that by allowing entrepreneurs to...
21 November 2014
Bainbridge Island, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
Not all seniors need the various discounts they receive. The Boomerang Giving project allows them to donate back the difference of the discounts on things like movie tickets to a charity of their choice, benefiting no...
10 November 2014
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Veterans who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder number about one-fourth of military personnel returning from Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, roughly 500,000 veterans so far. Inmates in prisons nationwide train...
20 September 2014
Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Preparing the young for elementary education is a priority to nurture reading and social skills. For 16 years, Tulsa Oklahoma has instituted a state funded preschool, staffed with teachers trained in early education....
19 August 2014
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Across the country, jails hold 10 times as many people with serious mental illness as state hospitals do, according to a recent report from the Treatment Advocacy Center. To deal with the problem, San Antonio and Bexa...
17 July 2014
Bawani Khera, Haryana, India
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800-1500 Words
India’s free school lunch program is one of the world’s largest anti-poverty programs. Despite its many shortfalls, the program feeds 120 million of the country’s poorest school children. The idea is that if children ...
14 June 2014
Buffalo, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
A Buffalo, New York clinic provides a space for both abortions and natural births. In looking at the experiences as a continuum, rather than as juxtiposing sides, the hope is to change how people think about the birth...
4 June 2014
Bronx, New York, United States
Radio
5-15 Minutes
Should housing be considered a form of healthcare? New York State thinks so, and is funding "supportive housing" through the state's Medicaid program.
The Guardian
Bruce Watson
30 May 2014
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Social Innovation Summit, hosted in New York City, examines five key elements that allow the strategy of marketing to the base of the pyramid to actually succeed, and the companies big and small that are leveragin...
Politico
Cassie Walker Burke
3 April 2014
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Huge numbers of students lack the chance to go to college because of financial problems. Recently, Kalamazoo schools received more funding allowing them to have the chance to help and pay for students to then go to co...
26 March 2014
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Government benefits to aid the poor are frequently left unclaimed, leaving children hungry, young people unable to finish school, and opportunities for stable housing and preventative health care unused. New York City...
12 February 2014
New York, New York, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, necessity has bred an interesting kind of financial invention for the New York MTA: the world’s first “catastrophe” bond - a reinsurance for the insurer - designed to protect public tr...
15 January 2014
Michigan, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Lotteries aren’t usually considered part of the solution to a savings crisis experienced across America, particularly by the nation's poor, but with more hopefuls purchasing lottery tickets than setting aside rainy da...
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