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& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
7 November 2021
Togo
Text
1500-3000 Words
An all-digital system delivered monthly payments to millions of Togolese people in need during the coronavirus. The platform, built in two weeks, immediately verifies applicants’ eligibility and instantly sends a text...
24 March 2021
Togo
Broadcast TV News
3-5 Minutes
"Poverty maps" that combine satellite imagery and survey data enabled the Togolese government to target emergency pandemic charitable aid to the people in greatest need. Togo officials relied on the expertise of Unive...
9 March 2021
Stockton, California, United States
Multi-Media
Under 3 Minutes
Rent relief payments in California are helping public housing residents pursue full-time employment. The Jobs-Plus initiative provides payments that are conditional on enrolling in job training and placement programs....
11 January 2021
California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A new app is helping communities facing food insecurity in California. Forage Grocery finds the best bargains for SNAP recipients in their local grocery stores. Users upload their grocery list, select the stores they ...
9 December 2020
Jihlava, Czech Republic
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1500-3000 Words
After a Housing First program in Brno, the Czech Republic's second-largest city, stabilized families' housing and health status, the city of Jihlava used local and European Union money, plus a charity's services, for ...
Scalawag
Courtney Napier
30 November 2020
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Mutual aid programs run by Black women have filled critical gaps in public assistance during the pandemic by feeding hundreds or thousands of people in multiple Southern cities. From Durham's Mustard Seed Project to S...
1 July 2020
Costa Rica
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1500-3000 Words
Despite its own troubled economy, Costa Rica has embraced a large influx of Nicaraguan refugees out of a recognition that immigration is an economic boon. The absorption of more than 28,000 migrants in one year, in a ...
1 April 2020
California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A state’s digital portals can be ways to reach residents’ needs as well as collect data on the real-time effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In California, the state’s SNAP assistance tool, GetCalFresh, emerged as a vit...
9 March 2020
Maryland, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Maryland's punitive child-support policies, which have piled $233 million in largely uncollectable debt on the state's poorest residents and destabilized families and neighborhoods, could be improved by adopting refor...
9 December 2019
Stockton, California, United States
Broadcast TV Programs
Under 3 Minutes
The city of Stockton, California is providing several low-income residents with $500 per month to pilot the effects of a "Universal Basic Income." So far, pilot participants report feeling less stressed about money, h...
2 December 2019
Berlin, Germany
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800-1500 Words
A nonprofit in Berlin tests the success of the Universal Basic Income structure, which is founded on the idea that a monthly stipend awarded to all individuals can create an invigorated labor force and allow people to...
21 October 2019
Pennsylvania, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Pennsylvania’s WIC program, offering people experiencing economic hardship food stipends, is switching from paper checks to plastic cards. The seemingly small change will have a huge effect on how the benefits are use...
3 October 2019
Stockton, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Stockton, California is piloting a closely-watched experiment with Universal Basic Income, providing a $500 allowance each month for 18 months to 125 low-income families. Preliminary data captured during the first 5 m...
16 September 2019
Anchorage, Alaska, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Simplifying the enrollment process makes the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) more accessible to those who qualify. In Anchorage, Alaska, a grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies funded a pilot pr...
1 September 2019
Jackson, Mississippi, United States
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1500-3000 Words
A pilot program in Jackson, Mississippi called Springboard to Opportunities is providing 20 single, African-American mothers living in public housing with $1000 a month, with no stipulations on how that money should b...
5 August 2019
Seattle, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
Pioneering research has indicated that encouraging low-income families to move to "higher opportunity" neighborhoods improves long-term outcomes for their children. A pilot program in Seattle aims to put this to the t...
4 April 2019
Canada
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800-1500 Words
Canada's poverty level has decreased by at least 20% between 2015 and 2017, helped in part due to a new methodology in solving poverty. Rather than disincentivizing collaboration, advocates got together to create comm...
22 February 2019
New York, New York, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
In response to the government shutdown in December 2018, the Robin Hood Foundation pieced together a food-aid puzzle to provide food for low-income families that weren't receiving their monthly SNAP benefits. By re-st...
1 January 2019
Juneau, Alaska, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In Alaska, the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program, which is meant to provide $1600 to every resident who has lived in Alaska for at least a year, has been proven to reduce poverty and increase quality of life; the ...
The Huffington Post
David Dayen
28 August 2018
Juneau, Alaska, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In Alaska, a highly popular version of Basic Income gives residents between $1000 and $3000 a month. Although this wealth fund, and similar ones in countries like Norway, have been considered, critics argue that it wo...
28 August 2018
Nepal
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800-1500 Words
The “Save the Daughter” campaign is helping families in Nepal with the economic struggle they face when mother’s give birth to females. That’s because, families with girls have to pay the wedding dowry, a cumbersome e...
16 August 2018
Antwerp, Belgium
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800-1500 Words
CURANT is a co-housing program launched by the city of Antwerp in Belgium, meant to support unaccompanied children who become legal adults. Participants are offered subsidized housing and are co-housed with a buddy, w...
1 June 2018
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Michigan, private design firm Civilla successfully pitched a human-centered redesign of the state's unwieldy and redundant public benefits form. By highlighting and emphasizing the experience that applicants had w...
23 April 2018
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Text
1500-3000 Words
A pilot program in Hamilton, Ontario tests the viability of a universal basic income. While bureaucratic red tape and critics from both political sides limit the enrollment in the program, citizens partaking in the pi...
2 March 2018
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In El Paso County, Colorado, the economic stress of poverty is recognized as a precursor to many instances of child abuse and neglect. Child safety caseworkers and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provid...
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