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  • Hunger Strike! How Immigrant Taxi Drivers Took on City Hall

    After a series of protests, petitions, and various attempts to rectify the crushing debt faced by NYC medallion owners, a hunger strike finally led to victory for The New York Taxi Workers Alliance. The debt was capped at a fraction of its original amount, allowing taxi drivers to realistically pay off the loans.

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  • Trying to Help Survivors, a Domestic Violence Agency Turns the Focus

    Positive Services is an intensive program that works with people responsible for domestic violence with the aim of addressing the root causes for their behavior patterns and in turn, providing them an opportunity to change. The program is run by the non-profit Monarch Services and is part of a growing movement in California wherein advocates for domestic violence survivors and law makers are looking at more humane and holistic approaches to address the issue.

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  • Universités et entreprises tendent la main aux jeunes Asperger

    75 % à 95 % des personnesdes personnes auxquelles on a diagnostiqué une forme d’autisme sont sans emploi, selon les estimations. Depuis 2018, le dispositif Université Aspies-Friendly travaille à leur inclusion dans l’enseignement supérieur A ce jour, vingt-cinq universités participent au projet pour quelque 500 étudiants autistes accompagnés.

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  • Forth Hope: La esperanza navega por el río Ucayali

    En el fondo de la Amazonía peruana donde no llegan fácilmente los médicos, el barco Forth Hope lleva curación, alivio, vacunas y prevención. Desde el año 2002, ha visitado y ayudado a millones de personas con apoyo médico, odontólogo, psicólogo y obstétrica.

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  • In Barcelona, a group of Roma people is fighting against poor representation in universities

    Through admissions counseling, tutoring and fellowship, volunteer-based association CampusRom is helping get more Roma students into Spanish university classrooms — and stay there. In 2021, 75% of enrolled students passed their courses, many participants return as volunteers after finishing their studies, and the system has been adopted in other Spanish regions of the country as well.

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  • L.A. Jobs Program Creates Opportunities for Employment, Stability After Incarceration

    Playa Vista Jobs’ Hatch Program is a three-phase program that helps people who were formerly incarcerated and recently released have a smooth reentry and find stable employment in the construction industry. The program begins with getting participants to open their minds to change and emotional healing followed by 500 hours of hands-on construction training in a stable environment, including regular meals. At the end of the program participants receive help securing employment.

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  • The profound impact of giving American families a little more cash

    The expanded child tax credit payments provided expanded eligibility for families to receive higher credits per child. Rather than receiving the credit when filing taxes, families received a cash payment per child each month, enabling them to use the money to meet their specific needs. The program provided a cushion for millions of families struggling to cover their expenses each month but expired in 2022.

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  • Finding Peace During War

    Through peer support, street mediation, and assistance with underlying needs like groceries and help with schoolwork, Peace During War works to help people in Kalamazoo, Mich. leave gun violence behind. The organization's efforts alongside other prevention initiatives are thought to have helped the city record zero gun deaths in the first five months of 2022 after two years of record gun deaths.

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  • They Found Peace During War. Can They Help Kalamazoo Do the Same?

    Through peer support, street mediation, and assistance with underlying needs like groceries and help with schoolwork, Peace During War works to help people in Kalamazoo, Mich. leave gun violence behind. The organization's efforts alongside other prevention initiatives are thought to have helped the city record zero gun deaths in the first five months of 2022 after two years of record gun deaths.

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  • This rural N.C. farm helps formerly incarcerated women build back their lives, careers

    Benevolence Farm provides reentry services for women to help ease the transition after incarceration. The nonprofit provides free room and board, a guaranteed job, career counseling, health appointments, and transportation.

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