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  • The Best Fix for High Unemployment? Prevent Companies From Laying Off Workers

    Clare Foran

    January 09, 2014 |

    National Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Providence, Rhode Island

    The unemployment crisis is a hard thing to solve - businesses sometimes have no choice but to let workers go. An innovative program tries to prevent joblessness by temporarily paying a portion of workers’ salaries at struggling companies.

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  • HealthCare.gov is busted. These four state exchanges aren't.

    Sarah Kliff

    October 25, 2013 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    Accessible affordable health care is needed for millions of uninsured Americans. The Affordable Care Act is a viable solution that helps the uninsured. Although the launching of the website had some glitches, many states designed their own insurance marketplace and have successfully signed up people for coverage.

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  • The Benefits of Cash Without Conditions

    Tina Rosenberg

    August 28, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Conditional cash transfers – giving the poor money if they do things that will make their children less poor, such as keep them in school – are the world’s most successful and widespread social program. Could it be possible, however, that the conditions aren’t necessary – just giving the poor money works just as well? In some circumstances, the answer seems to be yes.

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  • Nudging Detroit: Program Doubles Food Stamp Bucks In Grocery Stores

    Eliza Barclay

    June 14, 2013 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Organizations in Detroit are piloting a program to apply food stamp credits in grocery stores towards the purchase of nutritious produce, in order to increase access to healthy items. The initiative can also help the local economy prosper through increased promotion of locally grown produce.

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  • Home visiting programs are preschool in its earliest form

    Michael Alison Chandler

    May 13, 2013 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Manassas, Virginia

    Through programs across the country, nurses, social workers, or trained mentors offer support to new or expectant parents, imparting skills to help them become better teachers for their children. Through regular home visits with the families, these programs are working to close an achievement gap between rich and poor children that starts as early as just nine months into a child's life.

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  • When Paying It Forward Pays Us Back

    David Bornstein

    January 23, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Social programs are seen as a fiscal burden on the U.S. However, investment in effective social programs saves taxpayer dollars so evaluating the performance of federal programs could help Congress act more responsibly.

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  • What a Little Land Can Do

    Tina Rosenberg

    November 21, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Kolkata, West Bengal

    In many parts of the world, not owning one's own land is more directly correlated to poverty than other factors such as illiteracy, but land reform is controversial, difficult, and expensive. A new program called Landesa is having success in India through a non-confiscatory model that gives families tennis-court size plots.

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  • Amidst Drought and Famine, Niger Leads West Africa in Addressing Crisis

    Fred de Sam Lazaro

    July 12, 2012 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Niger, Madarounfa, Maradi

    Officials in Niger are addressing chronic severe droughts causing food shortages and leading to a widespread threat of starvation. They provide aid to malnourished children and resources for a crop planting technique called 're-greening,' which aims to reforest agricultural regions, restore soil quality and, in turn, increase food supply.

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  • How to Feed the Hungry, Faster

    Tina Rosenberg

    November 01, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia

    America is the world’s main supplier of food aid to impoverished countries; however, food aid has the problems of long-distance transportation, the cost of the transportation and storage, and the navigation through dangerous zones. Different programs around the world are experimenting with alternative forms of aid, including vouchers and cash for work.

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  • Out of Poverty, Family-Style

    David Bornstein

    July 14, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    A non-traditional program called the Family Independence Initiative (F.I.I.), uses a radically different approach from the traditional American social service model to empower entire families alleviate themselves from poverty. The results in multiple states thus far have been so striking, that this model of self-sufficiency may be able to have a significant impact reducing poverty nationwide.

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