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  • A Forgotten Barrio Fights to Keep the Water Running

    March 16, 2023 |

    The Bogotá Post |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    The “La Asociación de Usuarios del Acueducto Comunitario ‘Aguas Calientes’” is a comunity water plant built with government grant money to address the potable water scarcity in the area. Over the course of two decades of operation, the Association is the primary water supplier of the area’s 6,000 residents.

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  • How Michigan removes voters from the rolls: double-check everything and call on community groups to help

    March 16, 2023 |

    Votebeat Michigan |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Michigan is among the states that participate in the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, a program that cross references voter registration and Social Security death data across state lines to help local officials identify and address duplicate registrations. Over the past four years, the state has canceled the registrations of more than 400,000 voters who died and more than 170,000 whose residency changed.

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  • In these NH communities, you pay for how much trash you send to the landfill

    March 13, 2023 |

    New Hampshire Bulletin |

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    Response Location: United States, Concord, New Hampshire

    Communities across New Hampshire are implementing “pay as you throw” trash-collection systems to reduce the garbage sent to landfills and increase the use of alternative options like recycling. The programs use several different methods like special bags, stickers, or punch cards, but all require some form of payment per collected trash bag.

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  • What It Takes To Shelter Washington State's Housing Insecure Youth

    March 13, 2023 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    School districts in Washington State are required to identify students experiencing homelessness and enroll them into a state program in which the district pays for the students' transportation and covers the cost of other necessities with allotted federal funds.

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  • Dėmesys vaikui prasideda nuo dėmesio būsimai mamai – kaip Suomija tapo vaikų gerovės šalimi

    March 12, 2023 |

    Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) |

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    Response Location: Finland

    Suomijoje esantys vaikų namai, į kuriuos vaikai patenka dėl probleminio tėvų ar savo pačių elgesio, užtikrina saugią ir sveiką aplinką, o šeimai teikiamos kompleksinės paslaugos ženkliai padidina galimybę vaikui ilgainiui ir vėl grįžti gyventi su tėvais. Tai šalyje pavyko pasiekus, jog socialinio darbuotojo profesija būtų gerai atlyginama ir prestižinė, reikalaujanti specialaus išsilavinimo ir sertifikavimo, o didelės vaikų institucijos buvo paverstos jaukiais namais, kur vienu metu gyvena ne daugiau kaip 7 vaikai.

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  • How One City Ended Prison Gerrymandering

    March 10, 2023 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Wilmington, Delaware

    To end prison gerrymandering, the city council in Wilmington, Delaware, counted people who are incarcerated in the local prison at their last address in the city for the 2020 Census. People who are incarcerated there but did not live in Wilmington were not counted.

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  • How Tokyo's Farms Have Survived for Centuries

    March 10, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Japan, Tokyo

    To protect local farms, Tokyo’s Law on Productive Green Areas allows farmers to register their inner-city urban farms as Productive Green Areas and receive a property tax break. In return, landowners agree not to sell or develop the land. The law allowed 1,240 small farms to survive and was recently extended for another 10 years.

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  • How Norway Can Help Cure America's "Range Anxiety"

    March 07, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Norway

    Norway’s electric vehicle adaptation has grown to outpace the sale of fossil-fuel cars. The country’s government accomplished this by investing millions of euros in distributing charging ports, incentivizing electric vehicle purchases, disincentivizing purchases of fossil-fuel cars, and requiring locations like parking garages have electric infrastructure available.

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  • Banks For The People

    March 02, 2023 |

    Noēma |

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    Response Location: United States

    Public banks are owned and run by governments, and because they store money for the state instead of individuals, they can invest back into the communities they serve instead of extracting from them in the chase for profits.

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  • The search for immigrant seniors eligible for Medi-Cal

    February 27, 2023 |

    El Tímpano |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Medi-Cal is a Medicaid program for low-income residents regardless of their immigration status. As of October 2022, more than 300,000 older immigrant adults without legal residency enrolled in Medi-Cal, which was more than the state’s original projection. To continue expanding Medi-Cal’s reach, community health workers and educators are visiting senior centers, churches, markets and community events to encounter people who may not be aware of their eligibility in the program.

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