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What Germany's Coal Miners Can Teach America About Medical Debt

Noam N. Levey

December 14, 2022 |

Kaiser Health News |

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Response Location: Germany, Puttlingen

Germany, like the U.S., has a largely private healthcare system that relies on private doctors and private insurers. Like Americans, many Germans enroll in a health plan through work, splitting the cost with their employer. But Germany strictly limits how much patients have to pay out of their own pockets for a trip to the doctor, the hospital, or the pharmacy, making medical debt practically nonexistent.

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Lessons from Germany to help solve the U.S. medical debt crisis

Noam N. Levey

December 14, 2022 |

NPR |

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Response Location: Germany, Saarland

Unlike the U.S., in Germany medical debt is almost nonexistent because the country limits how much patients have to pay out-of-pocket for doctor and hospital visits and medications. Affordable access to health care has made German patients less likely than Americans to die from conditions that can be treated with good access to care, such as heart attacks, diabetes, pneumonia, and some cancers.

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Brighton's holistic approach to housing aims to break the cycle for the next generation

Jennifer Brown

December 14, 2022 |

The Colorado Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Brighton, Colorado

The Brighton Housing Authority uses a holistic approach to help those experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity. The organization provides tutoring to kids, runs a domestic violence program that provides temporary housing, and gives out rent and gas vouchers to those in need.

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The rate of out-school children in Nigeria is alarming, but one initiative is taking children off the streets in Gombe

Muhammad Auwal Ibrahim

December 14, 2022 |

BONews |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Gombe

The founder of the Uncle Muhsin Education Support Initiative uses his own resources to offer in-person and virtual classes for free to young Nigerians who are out of school. He also offers classes for children in school who do not understand all of their subjects.

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Treating Farmworkers on Their Terms

David Bacon

December 13, 2022 |

Capital & Main |

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Response Location: United States, Salinas, California

Community health clinics provide a space for indigenous people to access both traditional and nontraditional medicine as there’s a significant disconnect between indigenous communities and modern healthcare institutions. These community clinics increase healthcare access for indigenous communities and present care in an easily accessible way by taking language and cultural barriers into consideration.

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Community programs are a true alternative for asylum-seekers

Maurizio Guerrero

December 13, 2022 |

Prism |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Community-based services provided by nonprofits — which include legal representation, housing, referrals for medical services, English language classes, and assistance with obtaining identity documents — have emerged as alternatives to ICE-based detention centers to help address the needs of immigrants and asylum seekers. Organizations like the Interfaith Community for Detained Immigrants provide food, housing, and case management support for asylum seekers, both individuals and entire families.

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Rising death rate: group takes fight against malaria to high-burdened rural Nigerian communities

Abdulrasheed Hammad

December 12, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Danja, Katsina

To help address rising death rates caused by malaria, the Society for Family Health distributes insecticide nets to residents in rural communities for free and educates them on the importance of using them to protect against malaria-causing mosquito bites. The group has distributed 122.5 million nets between 2009 and 2021 and also provides diagnostic testing for malaria and advocates for more investing from government officials to address the disease.

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Saying it with soup in Lanesborough: We want to ease the isolation of our elders

Aina de Lapparent Alvarez

December 12, 2022 |

The Berkshire Eagle |

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Response Location: United States, Lanesborough, Massachusetts

The Community Produce Program organized by the Heart & Soil Collective delivers weekly produce to seniors in need. Not only does the program increase food access, but it also provides seniors with community, wellness checks, and friendships that they struggle to access otherwise.

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U.S. carbon farming takes root - but do the economics add up?

Carey L. Biron

December 12, 2022 |

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Response Location: United States, Maryland

Farmers in the United States are participating in the growing carbon offset credit industry with regenerative farming. These farmers use practices like planting cover crops and not tilling fields to improve soil quality, therefore, trapping more carbon emissions which they can sell as offset credits.

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Utah offers "free college for all" to juveniles behind bars

David Dudley

December 12, 2022 |

Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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Response Location: United States, Utah

Utah’s Higher Education for Incarcerated Youth program provides free college-level courses for credit to help young people who are incarcerated get college-ready. Those who do not pass the screening test to take college-level classes can take classes for high school credit instead.

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