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  • Can Metro Detroit's municipalities cooperate?

    Faced with insufficient revenue to fund key services like fire departments thanks to state laws limiting tax rates, two communities in Southeast Michigan used another state law to form a regional services authority that levies a property tax to fully fund both cities' fire departments. The authority is looking to mentor other communities on how to do this. Similar regional cooperative agreements are in place at a larger scale in Minneapolis/St. Paul and Pittsburgh addressing things like transportation, regional planning and affordable housing.

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  • What Mindfulness Does for Urban Kids

    In Baltimore, the effects of poverty hamper student's educational experience. This article looks at one school's attempt to address these education and behavioral barriers through meditation.

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  • Teaching Teens Financial Literacy

    Students at Provine High School will soon be able to open up accounts with Hope Credit Union, right in their own hallway. The partnership is helping students realize that having a relationship with a financial institution can create a more stable financial future, breaking the cycle of poverty.

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  • Australia's Lesson for a Thirsty California

    In Australia, an impending drought demanded urgent changes. Addressing these needs, various government agencies launched innovative campaigns to establish new norms around collaboration and conservancy.

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  • Flint effect? Environmentalism shifts to racial justice, inclusion.

    Even if Blacks and Latinos are more vulnerable to environmental pollution and disasters, very few groups have been working to build awareness around this issues. Fortunately, green groups and foundations are mobilizing energy policies and are becoming more inclusive by shifting the narrative to focus on the effects of environmental pollution and disasters on minority populations.

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  • Autistic? More Companies Say Add It to Your Resume

    People with autism struggle to gain employment. EY and other private companies have started programs to employ autistic individuals, harnessing their skills, tailoring the onboarding process to suit their needs, and having coaches help them with social interactions.

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  • I'll Take You To The ER, the Women's Shelter, or the Grocery Store. I'll Even Deliver Your Baby.

    In the small immigrant farming communities of the Central Valley, many families lack access to transportation and, as a result, struggle to gain access to healthcare that can be prohibitively far away. Raiteros are retired farm workers who offer rides to their fellow community members on a sliding payment scale that is based on what the rider can afford to pay.

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  • How Body Cameras Curbed Police Use of Force in Rialto

    When researchers studied how body cameras affected law enforcement in Rialto, California, they found dramatic drops in use of force and complaints against police. Researchers replicated these results in other places and found similar results, with some caveats. The technology is most effective if officers always have the cameras on and it can't be left up to the officers to decide on when they'll wear them.

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  • What if doctors could prescribe something to treat social isolation in seniors? It's happening now in Silicon Valley.

    LinkAges is a program by Palo Alto Medical Foundation focused on building a community of individuals from different generations to prevent social isolation. This program connects elders with social engagement at the end of their care.

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  • Can Española Valley High School crack down on truancy?

    To improve its consistently high truancy rates, last academic year Española Valley High School implemented a new truancy and dropout prevention program aimed at shaping up poor attendance. The results are yet to be determined — but debate still rages within the school about the best method for battling truancy.

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